The Waiting Game
How Lloydism risks detonating the master developer model, triggering a land strike, and leaving Britain’s housing pipeline…
Milton Keynes Lost: How second stairwells knocked out the UK’s brownfield housing pipeline
The idea for Place Base’s first published research emerged from a nagging desire to quantify how many…
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
Travels abroad: why leadership matters in development
Over the past year I’ve had the opportunity to spend time in some of the world’s most…
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…
Look East for opportunity in Newham
Over 20 years ago in July 2005 London won its bid to host the 2012 Olympics. The…
Housebuilding: The Golden Goose Is Dead
Let’s start with a short analogy. Picture a small manufacturer beginning the week. They make a respectable…
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….
