London Plan goes for green belt gamble
Last week, on what looked like a very sunny day in Greenwich another London Plan consultation was launched. The…
Lest we forget the HMO
There are plenty of sensitive topics of conversation within the UK’s town halls. My decade plus time in local…
Another day, another tax on development
The new building safety levy is a bad tax at the wrong time for UK housebuilding. It penalizes future…
Growth, growth, growth
The Spring Statement is when boosterism has to confront cold reality for the housing sector. Maybe no help is…
Brownfield land still offers the best chance of unlocking UK housing crisis
I am going to be controversial. Anyone else feel high density housing on brownfield sites have been sidelined? Perhaps…
An interest rate cut is welcome but is it enough
There was some cheer to be had out of another interest rate cut from the Bank of England last…
Why we need a Minister for Development Delivery
It was both eye catching and smart for Keir Starmer to include several individuals with commercial experience in his…
Major site in Nine Elms goes down at Wandsworth Planning
Following over an hour of discussion last week, Wandsworth’s Planning Application Committee retrospectively refused Watkin Jones’s Booker site in…
Uneasy lies the head that holds the London mayoralty
Just before Christmas as we were shutting down our screens, out popped a GLA Practice Note to entertain…
Let’s welcome a return to professional town planning
Arguably several decades too late, the UK polity has finally begun to accept the way planning applications up and…
