Nick

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:…

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

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…

What Property Landlords can learn from Pub Landlords

When pub landlords mobilised against proposed changes to business rates, they did something the private rental sector…

Fast Track and Late Stage Reviews: London Planning Caught in Its Own Policy Trap

The London Mayoral fast track route was intended to bring clarity and momentum to London’s planning system….

You have till midnight Thursday to help make the temporary measures count

Everyone should welcome the Government’s intent around the emergency measures for London and the wider ambition to…

Big Capital, a retrospective

Nearly a decade after the publication of Anna Minton’s book Big Capital, Who Is London For,…

Our friends in the north are not amused at HS2’s messy conclusion

It’s been two years since former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak scrapped HS2 north of Birmingham having lost…

Election heat boils over in Barnet knock backs.

Last week, Barnet Councillors overturned a positive officer recommendation and refused planning permission for a Barratt/ TFL…