Let’s welcome a return to professional town planning
Arguably several decades too late, the UK polity has finally begun to accept the way planning applications up and…
Building safety needs a rethink if we’re to crack housing delivery
The development and construction sector is experiencing major change as a consequence of stricter oversight to ensure safety and…
Have we reached the bottom of the land market?
With inflation falling below the UK target to 1.7% the question inevitably arises, are we at the bottom of…
The housing crunch: We need a rethink on how we deliver affordable homes
Last week, the quarterly planning application statistics were released highlighting a 9% fall in received applications from the…
The curious case of the vanishing HA
As we head into another Party Conference season, the development sector remains in a significant state of distress with…
London land market stand off must not become a UK one
A year ago, propviews posted on the London land market stand off – what’s going to give. We…
Westferry reboot and Anglia Square relaunch demonstrate more stable trading conditions ahead
Perhaps a signal the UK development sector is starting to turn a corner is when some of the totemic…
Talk of the town
Talk of New Towns suggests finally long-term thinking about infrastructure in the UK. The political cycle is not kind…
More professionalism, less populism Mr Starmer
A momentous result was delivered by the people two weeks ago. They said no to the Conservative Party, which…
Rent control is not an answer to London’s constrained housing supply
I attended the Centre for London Housing summit last Wednesday. It was a good conference where London’s public estate…
