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…
12 Days of Christmas and 12 Real Estate Highlights for 2024 Part 2
We’re now well into the 12 days of Christmas so what better way to see them through but with…
Twelve days of Christmas and twelve highlights of 2024
We’re almost there – Christmas and nearly a wrap for 2024. What a year, the property industry continues to…
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…
Building safety needs a rethink if we’re to crack housing delivery
The development and construction sector is experiencing major change as a consequence of stricter oversight to ensure safety and…
No budget bonanza for housing means material planning reforms are coming
Last month’s budget confirmed what many of us in the UK development and construction most feared. There isn’t much…
Systemic bankruptcy in UK town halls will hold back growth
Local government has been fraying at the seams for some years now. In 2018, Northamptonshire County Council issued a…
