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…
The Emergency Measures Are Right — But will the Boroughs back them?
I have tried throughout my time writing on London housing policy to be constructively critical of the…
Parkhurst Part 2: Before and After, Land Strikes and Practical vs Theory
Part 1 of this series established that the conclusions from Parkhurst Road Ltd v Secretary of State…
