Honey Monster: A tale of London’s lost housing supply
This week CyrusOne secured approval for a hyperscale data centre on a 16-acre site in Southall, and…
Draft London Plan Consultation: The Greenbelt Gamble
Part 1 of a propviews investigation into the assumptions underpinning the latest London Plan consultation
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…
