One letter, two plans and a million jobs
The Pennycook intervention and the collateral damage that the planning system…
The levers are there. Nobody knows how to pull them
Part Two: How a decade of layered housing policy has left the state unable to correct course
Looking for levers: Has Government run out of ideas to boost growth?
Part 1 of a three part deep dive into why the Government appears to struggle to turn…
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…
