Why “Making Social Rent Homes Viable” Is a Breakthrough — and Still a Reality Check
In the long, familiar cycle of UK housing debates, the Homes for People We Need report Making Social Rent…
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…
