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…
Growth, growth, growth
The Spring Statement is when boosterism has to confront cold reality for the housing sector. Maybe no help is…
Why we need a Minister for Development Delivery
It was both eye catching and smart for Keir Starmer to include several individuals with commercial experience in his…
Major site in Nine Elms goes down at Wandsworth Planning
Following over an hour of discussion last week, Wandsworth’s Planning Application Committee retrospectively refused Watkin Jones’s Booker site in…
Uneasy lies the head that holds the London mayoralty
Just before Christmas as we were shutting down our screens, out popped a GLA Practice Note to entertain…
