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…
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…
The housing crunch: We need a rethink on how we deliver affordable homes
Last week, the quarterly planning application statistics were released highlighting a 9% fall in received applications from the…
The curious case of the vanishing HA
As we head into another Party Conference season, the development sector remains in a significant state of distress with…
London land market stand off must not become a UK one
A year ago, propviews posted on the London land market stand off – what’s going to give. We…
Westferry reboot and Anglia Square relaunch demonstrate more stable trading conditions ahead
Perhaps a signal the UK development sector is starting to turn a corner is when some of the totemic…
More professionalism, less populism Mr Starmer
A momentous result was delivered by the people two weeks ago. They said no to the Conservative Party, which…
Managing the manifesto hyperbole
The party manifestos are out – and there are lots of shiny new promises which our political leaders hope…
Rent control is not an answer to London’s constrained housing supply
I attended the Centre for London Housing summit last Wednesday. It was a good conference where London’s public estate…
