Why “Making Social Rent Homes Viable” Is a Breakthrough — and Still a Reality Check
In the long, familiar cycle of UK housing debates, the Homes for People We Need report Making Social Rent…
The Waiting Game
How Lloydism risks detonating the master developer model, triggering a land strike, and leaving Britain’s housing pipeline…
Milton Keynes Lost: How second stairwells knocked out the UK’s brownfield housing pipeline
The idea for Place Base’s first published research emerged from a nagging desire to quantify how many…
Key Worker Living Rent: Right Fight, Wrong Time?
For those of us still floating above the waves, the Mayor has launched a new housing product:…
London Calling
London needs an anthem. Something properly earwig-y that just sticks with you all day.
If this Government is serious about growth it must bring back Section 106BA now
Several years ago, during the dying embers of the last Government, I was invited into a roundtable…
Small sites, big lessons
It was back in the middle of the pandemic that
Travels abroad: why leadership matters in development
Over the past year I’ve had the opportunity to spend time in some of the world’s most…
Concrete, Construction and Collapse: What Plunging Material Demand Tells Us About UK Planning
In isolation, a drop in concrete sales might look like a cyclical…
