Politics

Green snake oil over the Mayor’s housing quotas is shameful

Anyone with even a basic understanding of planning would have found Wednesday’s Today Programme deeply frustrating. I…

Time for a outward facing RIBA

Architects have never been more needed, yet our influence has never felt more fragile. I hear it…

UK Town Planning: A board of snakes and ladders

On 15 June, Housing and Planning Minister Matthew Pennycook designated nine councils under section 62A of the…

Parkhurst Part 3: The Age of Enforcement

How the circularity problem was real, how City Hall over corrected, and the Age of Enforcement

The Last of the Threshold Chasers – Part 1

The Battersea Glassmill decision and the policy that requires a tower to work — then refuses the…

UKREiiF – Key Takeways Day 2

Lots of insights coming out as the UK grapples with the brownfield emergency:

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….

Black Swans, Transmission Impacts and Ceasefires – Part 4

There was much relief when a ceasefire of sorts was announced earlier this week.  But it doesn’t…