All Professional comment articles – Page 12
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ProfessionalHigh streets need organisation
Twelve levelling-up missions; King’s Cross-style regeneration of city centres; 53 town centre deals – the UK government appears to be sparing no effort to aid the regeneration of towns, city centres and high streets.
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ProfessionalBusiness leaders must unlock benefits of new ways to work
Covid has demystified the world of remote working, boosting output, creativity and talent retention.
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ProfessionalWhy repurpose heritage assets?
For many developers, historic assets are offputting and for understandable reasons. After all, they often come with strict rules about what can be done to them – sometimes very little indeed.
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ProfessionalProperty’s metaverse revolution
A reimagined social future or ambitious utopia doomed for failure? The camp may be split, but the metaverse already exists; albeit not the polished dream that Mark Zuckerberg conjured in December 2021 but very real, virtual worlds with new possibilities to be considered.
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ProfessionalWho has responsibility for the management of wider estates?
The Supreme Court in FirstPort Property Services v Settlers Court RTM Co provides welcome clarity over the scope of right-to-manage (RTM) legislation. An RTM company, which is run by leaseholders, manages a block of flats where the right has been exercised pursuant to the provisions of the Commonhold and Leasehold ...
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ProfessionalHow can predictive analytics help to simplify planning and data?
The relationship between data and planning is complicated. Big data has become unwieldy as new systems and variables become more complex. With sustainability at the core of new infrastructure and construction projects, town and urban planning has become too holistic for it to meet the scale of delivery.
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ProfessionalAnticipating 2022’s Planning Bill
Greater flexibility in planning has been a lifeline for many projects during the pandemic.
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ProfessionalHow to design offices to suit flexible and hybrid working
The World Bank’s new London office demonstrates the value of flexible and socially distanced workspaces.
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ProfessionalFirst Homes has its challenges
First Homes has been lined up as the replacement to the Help to Buy scheme, but unlike Help to Buy, First Homes will count towards a developer’s affordable housing provision as part of a planning application.
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ProfessionalThe buzz of city life is returning
City living has had a tough time throughout the pandemic. Remote working and the closure of hospitality venues eroded the allure of the city, and the nature of housing demand changed.
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ProfessionalIs the property industry ESG-ready?
Investment in the office sector is on the rise, but is the property industry ready to meet the ESG compliance and investment models of real estate investment companies? Are funds ready to invest and looking to attract tenants who need to prove their occupational interests meet the ESG standards they ...
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ProfessionalCould discounted housing be the solution to Britain’s skills crisis?
Britain faces a skills crisis. Vacancy rates are running high and businesses simply cannot get enough lorry drivers, chefs, fruit pickers – the list goes on and on.
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ProfessionalAssessing BTR’s RPDT ‘exclusion’
After a record-breaking 2021, the build-to-rent (BTR) sector has continued to gather pace in 2022, with new sites coming on stream and institutional investors buying or entering into partnership deals with developers.
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ProfessionalCan a guardian claim tenancy after signing a licence agreement?
The recent landmark judgment in the Court of Appeal (Global 100 Ltd v Maria Laleva [2021] EWCA Civ) confirms the legality of the property guardianship operational model that defines the status of, and between, property owners, guardianship companies and guardians when securing vacant property.
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ProfessionalTime to rethink private office spaces in a post-Covid world
Pods can provide employers with flexibility, noise cancellation and a host of health and air-quality benefits.
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ProfessionalThe fast-casual restaurant boom
The fast-casual boom in the UK’s restaurant industry is becoming increasingly hard to ignore. The fast-food and takeaway sector experienced enormous growth due to the pandemic, but recent data around property prices, consumer trends and industry flexibility are suggesting a reversal of fortunes.
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ProfessionalAddressing the planning process
Following the publication of ‘Meeting Housing Demand’ last week, chairwoman Baroness Neville-Rolfe observed: “The most important aspect in terms of housing supply is planning. Frankly, all the twisting and turning over reform has had a chilling effect, creating uncertainty for housebuilders and planners.”
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ProfessionalHow can developers make money while helping to save the planet?
By now, developers will be used to designers promoting opportunities to improve sustainability performance, and equally familiar with these proposals being rejected due to risk and cost concerns.
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ProfessionalWhat does ‘nutrient neutrality’ spell for new-homes delivery?
Amid a UK housing shortage, 10,000 homes in Portsmouth and Southampton went on hold in 2020 and now, according to research by Savills, 10% of all local planning authorities (LPAs) – predominantly in the South West – have had to cut housing delivery by more than half.
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ProfessionalFostering a sense of community
Deals in the City of London were historically brokered in coffee shops, when market intelligence was shared through networks of people talking to each other. In an increasingly mobile world, business happens in Shoreditch House or the lobby of The Standard, as well as remotely from holiday homes and rural ...
