All Planning & policy articles – Page 6
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NewsFruition Properties gets green light for two schemes totalling over £25m GDV
SME developer Fruition Properties has secured planning permission for a residential scheme in Sudbury Hill, Harrow, London with a £20m-plus gross development value, as part of a collaborative joint venture with the existing landowner.
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NewsBrookfield working up plans for new City skyscraper at 99 Bishopsgate site
Brookfield Properties is working up plans to replace its 99 Bishopsgate office tower in the City of London with a new 54-storey skyscraper.
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InsightSavills UK’s Richard Rees on tackling the causes of youth homelessness
LandAid’s, and the wider property industry’s, efforts to help solve youth homelessness and ensure that everyone has a safe and suitable place to call home have been ongoing for several decades, but have taken on a new urgency in the last few years.
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NewsKhan says Sunak’s private sector plans for HS2 Euston ‘verging on fantasy’
London mayor Sadiq Khan has said Rishi Sunak’s plan to get private developers to pay for the final leg of HS2 from west London to the Euston terminus is “verging on fantasy”.
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NewsHousing minister pledges to abolish leaseholds and ‘restore true home ownership’
Housing minister Rachel Maclean yesterday confirmed the government will bring forward a bill to abolish leaseholds and to “restore true home ownership”.
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InsightGrainger’s Helen Gordon on levelling up in action
With HS2 in the news and some questioning the government’s commitment to levelling up, towns and cities across the UK are now positively benefiting from regional investment in build to rent (BTR).
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NewsWimbledon tennis expansion plans agreed in face of opposition
Merton Council has approved controversial plans to expand the Wimbledon tennis championship site in south west London despite local opposition branding it an “aggressive, inappropriate commercial development”.
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NewsLevelling Up and Regeneration Bill rubber-stamped in late move
The long-awaited Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill (LURB) received Royal Assent yesterday (26 October), passing into law just before the proroguing of parliament ahead of the King’s Speech.
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NewsTfL’s property arm secures permission for Kilburn Arches improvements
Places for London, Transport for London’s (TfL) property company, has secured planning permission to improve 11 arches along Kilburn Mews to transform the commercial units and open them up to Kilburn High Road and the local community.
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InsightHow will the next government tackle property issues?
Editor: There are several well-documented, interconnected issues affecting the UK property market: the affordability crisis; the imbalance between supply and demand; empty and derelict properties; the planning system; and sustainability.
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InsightPrivatisation may fix planning system
Editor: Britain’s planning system is saddling us with all kinds of social and economic problems and must take a large share of the blame for the housing crisis that is freezing a whole generation out of home ownership.
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InsightIt’s time for a change at the top
Last week’s two by-elections were terrible results for the Conservatives. It’s true that if Reform UK’s vote, which attracts some hard-right Tories, had been added to their vote they would have very narrowly won in Mid-Bedfordshire.
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InsightMake infrastructure and I&L central to reform, BPF urges
The British Property Federation is proposing a new strategic planning framework to sit alongside the NPPF.
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News‘Crunch decision’ on Palace of Westminster restoration to face new government
A fully costed plan for the restoration of the Palace of Westminster will now not take place until 2025 after the general election and work will not start on the beleaguered building until at least 2029.
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NewsGove gives developers 30-month second staircase grace period
Housing secretary Michael Gove has laid out a two-and-a-half-year transition period for the implementation of second staircases in new residential developments, in a bid to provide developers with clarity over their schemes.
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NewsHines’ Soho Square office scheme rejected in ‘clear signal to investors’
Hines’ plans for a major mixed-use development in London’s Soho have been rejected by Westminster City Council, with the planning committee voting against recommendations for approval.
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NewsRenters Reform Bill passes second reading in parliament without division
The Renters Reform Bill (RRB) passed its second parliamentary reading in the House of Commons yesterday (23 October) without a vote, but critics said the government is planning to delay the proposed ban of Section 21 ’no-fault’ evictions in a “grubby deal”.
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NewsRICS teams up with WELL and Ekkist to drive development of ‘healthy buildings’
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has partnered with the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) and built environment health and wellbeing consultancy Ekkist to help the industry design and build healthier buildings.
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NewsSpurs lose legal challenge over 3,000 home development opposite stadium
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has lost a legal battle to thwart plans for a £2bn mixed-used development opposite its north London stadium.
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NewsHunt plots stamp duty and tax cuts after by-election losses
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is reportedly in discussions to cut stamp duty and could be set to introduce a new support scheme to help first-time buyers in a move triggered by the government’s recent by-election losses.
