The planning system does not reflect public opinion. It reflects who turns up.
Planning reform is everywhere. New targets. New thresholds. New rules for committees, appeals and plan-making.
Honey Monster: A tale of London’s lost housing supply
This week CyrusOne secured approval for a hyperscale data centre on a 16-acre site in Southall, and…
Why asking permission to build costs twenty times more in Croydon than in Westminster
Second of three. A series on London’s borough disparity in approving small housing schemes: the measure, its…
Draft London Plan Consultation: The Greenbelt Gamble
Part 1 of a propviews investigation into the assumptions underpinning the latest London Plan consultation
Dale Vince’s builders are blockers critique is wrong again
There is a serious case against Britain’s housing model. Dale Vince does not make it.
One letter, two plans and a million jobs
The Pennycook intervention and the collateral damage that the planning system…
Big capital and innovation offer major growth potential if UK cities embrace
The challenges facing cities, from housing shortfalls to ageing infrastructure, competitiveness, climate change and migration to affordability,…
The levers are there. Nobody knows how to pull them
Part Two: How a decade of layered housing policy has left the state unable to correct course
Why London says no to small sites
The Outcome Differential Why the borough decides more than the architect does
