Nick

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…

The key questions for Britain’s brownfield emergency measures

With a consultation imminent to address the London brownfield crisis, stem the job losses and relocations occurring…

Big capital stuck in UK Capital

Last week we saw another sign of the decapitalisation of the London residential development market with

Everything you have always wanted to know about funding home building (but were afraid to ask)

The UK housing development sector is being decapitalized.  Evidence?  The thousands of homes in static consents across…

A very British fix

In the end it was the numbers wat won it. Following weeks of speculation and back and…

Make viability great again

There’s been a lot of chatter about planning reforms.  How effective they may or may not be…

New Towns could be great, or could be housing’s HS2

Just over a week ago the Government published its blueprint for the next wave of New Towns. …

35% of nothing

Last week, during an in-depth feature for Inside Housing, Deputy Mayor for Housing Tom Copley made the…