Let’s welcome a return to professional town planning
Arguably several decades too late, the UK polity has finally begun to accept the way planning applications up and…
Building safety needs a rethink if we’re to crack housing delivery
The development and construction sector is experiencing major change as a consequence of stricter oversight to ensure safety and…
No budget bonanza for housing means material planning reforms are coming
Last month’s budget confirmed what many of us in the UK development and construction most feared. There isn’t much…
Systemic bankruptcy in UK town halls will hold back growth
Local government has been fraying at the seams for some years now. In 2018, Northamptonshire County Council issued a…
Have we reached the bottom of the land market?
With inflation falling below the UK target to 1.7% the question inevitably arises, are we at the bottom of…
The housing crunch: We need a rethink on how we deliver affordable homes
Last week, the quarterly planning application statistics were released highlighting a 9% fall in received applications from the…
The curious case of the vanishing HA
As we head into another Party Conference season, the development sector remains in a significant state of distress with…
London land market stand off must not become a UK one
A year ago, propviews posted on the London land market stand off – what’s going to give. We…
Westferry reboot and Anglia Square relaunch demonstrate more stable trading conditions ahead
Perhaps a signal the UK development sector is starting to turn a corner is when some of the totemic…
