Big capital and innovation offer major growth potential if UK cities embrace
The challenges facing cities, from housing shortfalls to ageing infrastructure, competitiveness, climate change and migration to affordability,…
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
Why London says no to small sites
The Outcome Differential Why the borough decides more than the architect does
Green snake oil over the Mayor’s housing quotas is shameful
Anyone with even a basic understanding of planning would have found Wednesday’s Today Programme deeply frustrating. I…
Time for a outward facing RIBA
Architects have never been more needed, yet our influence has never felt more fragile. I hear it…
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…
Replace the London ‘No’ Plan with a London ‘Yes’ Plan.
London is falling behind big time. Not slowly, not quietly – but visibly, measurably, embarrassingly behind. And…
Parkhurst Part 3: The Age of Enforcement
How the circularity problem was real, how City Hall over corrected, and the Age of Enforcement
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…
