All Planning & policy articles – Page 8
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NewsBTR 360: Unintended consequences from RRB could ‘hurt’ BTR sector
The Renters Reform Bill could “really hurt” the build to rent (BTR) sector, with unintended consequences affecting investors and renters, attendees at Property Week’s BTR360 conference were warned today (10 October).
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OnlineBrighton to get brownfield housebuilding boost under Labour leadership, conference panel hears
Bella Sankey, the recently elected leader of Brighton and Hove City council, said she intends to “ramp up” housebuilding in the city on brownfield sites.
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Online‘Councils should face consequences for unmet housing targets’, Labour conference panel agrees
Local authorities need to be held accountable when housing targets are not met, according to panellists at a Labour Party Conference panel session yesterday titled How do we fix the housing crisis?
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NewsPineBridge Benson Elliot set to make its Mark with City office development
PineBridge Benson Elliot has secured planning permission for The Mark, a 215,000 sq ft sustainable office scheme in the City of London.
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NewsLabour’s Reeves pledges to overhaul ‘antiquated’ planning system
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has pledged to overhaul the “antiquated” planning system and fast- track planning applications for major infrastructure projects in Labour’s pitch to “get Britain building again”.
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NewsRayner pledges to deliver ‘biggest boost in social housing for a generation’
Shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has pledged to deliver the biggest boost in social and affordable housing for a generation in a speech at the Labour Party Conference yesterday (8 October).
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NewsComer Homes and Greenwich Council set to meet over demolition order
Comer Homes, the developer behind the Mast Quay phase-two development in Woolwich, south London, has said Greenwich Council has agreed to meet the firm regarding the order for the towers to be torn down because of deviations from the planning permission granted.
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NewsLabour to reform Homes England, planning and development policy in manifesto
An early Labour manifesto described as the party’s full final policy platform has leaked ahead of the party conference next week.
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NewsDLUHC removes threat to sanction 10 planning authorities as performance improves
Housing minister Rachel Maclean yesterday (5 October) told 10 local planning authorities that her department had decided not to go ahead with its earlier threat to designate them, which would have allowed the secretary of state to take planning decisions out of their hands, after recognising improvements in their performance ...
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NewsSunak authorises HS2 land sales, killing northern leg ‘stone dead’
Rishi Sunak has authorised the sale of properties subject to compulsory purchase orders on part of the northern route of HS2, effectively preventing a reversal of the decision to cancel the project.
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NewsHBF brands England ’the worst place to find housing in the developed world’
A report by the Home Builders Federation (HBF) has ranked England as the worst place in the developed world to find housing.
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NewsHS2 Euston station scaled back and could be cancelled without private investment
The HS2 development at Euston station will be scaled down to just six platforms, knocking £6.5bn off the total costs, and the project’s future could still rely on private investment, it has emerged.
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NewsAll change please
“The right thing to do when the facts have changed is to have the courage to change direction.” So said prime minister Rishi Sunak in his speech to the Tory conference on Wednesday afternoon.
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NewsPrivate consortium led by West Midlands mayor to explore ‘reviving’ HS2
West Midlands mayor Andy Street is to lead a private sector consortium to re-examine the HS2 project and explore the possibility of reviving the now-cancelled Birmingham to Manchester rail link.
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NewsSunak accused of undermining decades of planning by axing HS2 northern leg
A dismayed property sector has accused the government of undermining decades of planning by businesses, developers and local authorities in cancelling the northern leg of HS2.
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NewsGove delays London South Bank studios redevelopment decision for a second time
The government has postponed a decision on the controversial redevelopment of the former ITV Studios on London’s South Bank for the second time.
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NewsGovernment to stop councils implementing ‘sinister’ 15-minute cities
Transport secretary Mark Harper has revealed the government has launched a crackdown on “the misuse of so-called 15-minute cities,” describing them as “sinister”.
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NewsLandsec backing prime offices as it commits to £200m Southwark development
Landsec has committed to delivering its 380,000 sq ft Timber Square development in Southwark in full in a show of the confidence in London’s prime office market, Property Week can reveal.
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NewsConservative Party Conference: former minister blames end of Help to Buy for housing crisis
Former housing minister Brandon Lewis has called for a replacement for the Help to Buy scheme as the best way to address intergenerational unfairness in the housing market.
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NewsConservative Party Conference: think tank says planning reform key to fixing housing crisis
Democratising the planning system would make it fit for purpose and better able to address the UK’s housing crisis, a leading think tank told a panel of councillors and MPs, including housing minister Rachel Maclean, at this week’s Conservative Party Conference.
