The Waiting Game

How Lloydism risks detonating the master developer model, triggering a land strike, and leaving Britain’s housing pipeline…

Milton Keynes Lost: How second stairwells knocked out the UK’s brownfield housing pipeline

The idea for Place Base’s first published research emerged from a nagging desire to quantify how many…

Key Worker Living Rent: Right Fight, Wrong Time?

For those of us still floating above the waves, the Mayor has launched a new housing product:…

London Calling

London needs an anthem. Something properly earwig-y that just sticks with you all day.

If this Government is serious about growth it must bring back Section 106BA now

Several years ago, during the dying embers of the last Government, I was invited into a roundtable…

Small sites, big lessons

It was back in the middle of the pandemic that

Travels abroad: why leadership matters in development

Over the past year I’ve had the opportunity to spend time in some of the world’s most…

Concrete, Construction and Collapse: What Plunging Material Demand Tells Us About UK Planning

In isolation, a drop in concrete sales might look like a cyclical…

Look East for opportunity in Newham

Over 20 years ago in July 2005 London won its bid to host the 2012 Olympics. The…