Planning reforms welcome but piling costs onto builders undermines housing delivery
We all love our festive traditions. Buying the tree, decorating the house and wrapping presents, all soundtracked…
Election heat boils over in Barnet knock backs.
Last week, Barnet Councillors overturned a positive officer recommendation and refused planning permission for a Barratt/ TFL…
Britain’s Next Berkeley Is Waiting: Why Small Builders Hold the Key to the Housing Challenge
In 1976, a young Tony Pidgley founded Berkeley Homes, then a modest regional firm with big ambitions….
Building Safety Regulator needs fixes fast to be effective
The tragic loss of at least 151 lives to the fire at Wang Fuk Court in Hong…
Britain Doesn’t Need More Paper. It Needs Permissions.
If Westminster’s rumour mill is to be believed, the new National Planning Policy Framework and the long-promised…
What future UK New Towns Can Learn from Copenhagen’s Nordhavn and Ørestad
As the UK renews its ambition to deliver a new generation of towns, there is understandable pressure…
The key questions for Britain’s brownfield emergency measures
With a consultation imminent to address the London brownfield crisis, stem the job losses and relocations occurring…
Big capital stuck in UK Capital
Last week we saw another sign of the decapitalisation of the London residential development market with
London residential land market: frozen or thawing?
After months of speculation, measures to support London house building will be consulted on in the coming…
Everything you have always wanted to know about funding home building (but were afraid to ask)
The UK housing development sector is being decapitalized. Evidence? The thousands of homes in static consents across…
