UK Town Planning: A board of snakes and ladders
On 15 June, Housing and Planning Minister Matthew Pennycook designated nine councils under section 62A of the…
Parkhurst Part 3: The Age of Enforcement
How the circularity problem was real, how City Hall over corrected, and the Age of Enforcement
The brownfield emergency: A tale of a car repair workshop and the broken development chain
A hypothetical worked example that shows why London’s brownfield pipeline has three sequential problems — and why…
The Good, the Bad and the Confusing
I have been grappling with conflicting data and policy moves in the housing sector this week. Taken…
Ten Years of Simonicity — and Three Big Themes for the Next Ten
What the planning blogosphere’s best minds think is coming — and where I land on all this…
New Town in Enfield increasingly challenged
On 28 May 2026, Enfield’s new Conservative leader Alessandro Georgiou wrote to housing minister Matthew Pennycook to…
The Last of the Threshold Chasers – Part 1
The Battersea Glassmill decision and the policy that requires a tower to work — then refuses the…
“A Great Day for Peckham”
The Aylesham Centre decision and the system that has learned to…
UKREiiF – Key Takeways Day 2
Lots of insights coming out as the UK grapples with the brownfield emergency:
Back to Leeds: The Scorecard
UKREiif 2026 — 12 months on, what came true, what didn’t We’re back. UKREiif…
