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…
New Town in Enfield increasingly challenged
On 28 May 2026, Enfield’s new Conservative leader Alessandro Georgiou wrote to housing minister Matthew Pennycook to…
The Last of the Threshold Chasers – Part 1
The Battersea Glassmill decision and the policy that requires a tower to work — then refuses the…
The Estate Agency Reckoning: Why the Black Book Is No Longer Enough
For decades the UK development land and commercial agency market relied on a familiar model: relationships, applicant…
“A Great Day for Peckham”
The Aylesham Centre decision and the system that has learned to…
UKREiiF – Key Takeways Day 2
Lots of insights coming out as the UK grapples with the brownfield emergency:
Take the Housing Minister at His Word
“Fully expected and anticipated in opposition.” That is how Matthew Pennycook described the collapse…
Back to Leeds: The Scorecard
UKREiif 2026 — 12 months on, what came true, what didn’t We’re back. UKREiif…
The Emergency Measures Are Right — But will the Boroughs back them?
I have tried throughout my time writing on London housing policy to be constructively critical of the…
Parkhurst Part 2: Before and After, Land Strikes and Practical vs Theory
Part 1 of this series established that the conclusions from Parkhurst Road Ltd v Secretary of State…
