Housing

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…

London local elections – initial reactions

Greens have made significant gains in Hackney, Haringey and Waltham Forest.  Haringey and Hackney have both been…

The Letter to London Crowd Have Found a New Way to Be Wrong 

This is not a minor offence….

Parkhurst: The judgement nobody read but shut down the London land market for a generation

Part 1 of a deep dive propviews on why the London planning framework has…

Can developers use ai to get rid of architects…? 

The architect’s new job is not to produce. It’s to know what problem you’re actually trying to…

It takes a decade: How London broke its housing market

Setting the scene There is no singular cause…