Looking for levers: Has Government run out of ideas to boost growth?
Part 1 of a three part deep dive into why the Government appears to struggle to turn…
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…
Replace the London ‘No’ Plan with a London ‘Yes’ Plan.
London is falling behind big time. Not slowly, not quietly – but visibly, measurably, embarrassingly behind. And…
Parkhurst Part 3: The Age of Enforcement
How the circularity problem was real, how City Hall over corrected, and the Age of Enforcement
The brownfield emergency: A tale of a car repair workshop and the broken development chain
A hypothetical worked example that shows why London’s brownfield pipeline has three sequential problems — and why…
The Good, the Bad and the Confusing
I have been grappling with conflicting data and policy moves in the housing sector this week. Taken…
Ten Years of Simonicity — and Three Big Themes for the Next Ten
What the planning blogosphere’s best minds think is coming — and where I land on all this…
New Town in Enfield increasingly challenged
On 28 May 2026, Enfield’s new Conservative leader Alessandro Georgiou wrote to housing minister Matthew Pennycook to…
