Big Capital, a retrospective
Nearly a decade after the publication of Anna Minton’s book Big Capital, Who Is London For,…
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…
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…
A very British fix
In the end it was the numbers wat won it. Following weeks of speculation and back and…
The View from Downe: What Nigel Farage’s Village Tells Us About His Housing Politics
If you want to know how Nigel Farage might think about housing, you have to leave Westminster…
Devolution deficits
The UK takes a long time to do anything. Local government watchers will know that successive administrations…
Why London stopped building
Two weeks ago, London focused furniture company David Phillips went into administration. The business, roughly 25 years,…
Playing Corporation Games
Much hope appears to rest on a new wave of development corporations to help the nation get…
Top takeaways from Leeds and one big prediction
Sunny days kept optimism high at UKReiif. There is a lot to be excited about with a predicted wave…
Hot, crowded and brimming with ideas: Day one of UKREiif
At points yesterday in the main conference zone at UKREiif it felt like you were in the midst of…
