A 14% cut in planning services won’t help solve housing shortage
You hear developers often complain about the quality of the planning service. These complaints are usually matched by local…
Are we being level headed on levelling up?
The authors of the Levelling Up White Paper clearly enjoy a bit of history in their spare time. We…
Cold months but red hot inflation will be a headache for housing
Winter is here and with it some bracing economic conditions with CPI measured inflation hitting 4.2% in December. This…
London’s renters want a pathway to homeownership
‘Owning a home is a key aspiration in life’ said 73% of the renters Pocket Living polled in our…
A First Home Must Not Become A Last Home
Widening homeownership appears the key priority for this Government and the property world now has a new tenure to…
What Michael Gove can learn from the Northern Line extension
The opening of the Northern Line extension this week is a huge moment for Battersea and London. It shows…
Au revoir Robert Jenrick and thank you for the memories
A camel is a horse designed by committee. The same is true of the UK planning system. A hodgepodge…
It’s not the lack of design codes which has stopped Britain building beautiful
When launching the Government’s new Office for Place, Robert Jenrick made it clear he disproved of the development industry’s…
A dose of realism – modular housing has a long way to go
Four years ago, I was part of the Pocket team opening Sail Street one of three compact modular buildings…
Intelligent infilling and good quality design is part of the housing solution
Last week I welcomed Jas Athwal, the Leader of Redbridge to our Gardner Close scheme in Wanstead. The site,…
