Five ideas to help supply for first-time buyers and renters in our cities
A functioning housing ladder is critical to our towns, cities and…
Black Swans and the Planning System: Why Profit Caps Don’t Work in Housing
One of the persistent assumptions in the UK planning debate is that…
Urban Sketch’s NPPF viability consultation response
For those yet to respond the viability reforms in the NPPF – you can find it here:…
Why “Making Social Rent Homes Viable” Is a Breakthrough — and Still a Reality Check
In the long, familiar cycle of UK housing debates, the Homes for People We Need report Making Social Rent…
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….
