All planning articles – Page 2
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Gove unveils proposed planning guidance changes in bid to boost brownfield development
Housing secretary wants planning authorities to take a less “bureaucratic” approach to urban development
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Features
ɫTV the Future Commission: Planning to solve the housing crisis
Last week the ɫTV the Future commission published its final report. In this chapter, Joey Gardiner considers how we might change a dysfunctional system and hit the target of building 300,000 new homes a year
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Comment
Gove’s attempt to speed up planning decisions could have unintended consequences
Rather than procedural change to drive the illusion of improvement, we should completely re-assess what planners need to be doing, argues Paul Smith
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Comment
Is the housing crisis just too big a problem for politics to crack?
The recently published National Planning Policy Framework highlights how difficult housing reform can be. Can we expect better from the outcome of a general election, asks Simon Rawlinson of Arcadis
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Council knocks back £150m office scheme in Shoreditch for third time
Decision on revised plans by Morris & Co deferred due to outcry from locals over scheme’s massing
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Gove’s London Plan review to be delivered within weeks
Consultant Lichfields appointed to support expert panel
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Comment
Why do we keep missing the government’s housing delivery target?
The housing market is not dysfunctional, it is the planning system that is holding back development, writes Paul Smith
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London mayor failing to provide enough affordable homes, Gove says
If Sadiq Khan cannot deliver the number of homes London needs, then I will, secretary of state insists
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Comment
Deliberate landbanking by housebuilders is a myth
The suggestion that housebuilders deliberately landbank is, to put it bluntly, poppycock, writes John Wallace
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Comment
The chancellor delivered the wrong kind of planning reform
It is wishful thinking to believe the latest financial incentives announced on Wednesday will suddenly speed up planning decisions
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Gove refuses planning for Buckinghamshire data centre because it would ‘harm’ view of Green Belt from M25
The development was refused by MP Lee Rowley on behalf of the housing secretary despite “a significant and substantial demand for data centres”
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Gove’s Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill becomes law
Flagship legislation to overhaul planning receives Royal Assent
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Draft planning reforms for major projects do not give enough legal clarity, MPs warn
Transport committee says changes are needed as plans won’t prevent legal challenges delaying projects
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Plans submitted for £400m Manchester University campus redevelopment
University seeking to demolish several mid-century buildings and replace them with 3,300 new student beds
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Birmingham’s Ringway Centre set for wrecking ball as council considers three tower plan
Corstorphine & Wright proposals would replace brutalist landmark with blocks up to 56 storeys in height
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KPF’s 35-storey Shoreditch tower approved
Office scheme to transform Old Street Roundabout’s Inmarsat ɫTV
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Plans for £750m Marlow Film Studios progress amid local backlash
Local MP among hundreds of objectors to plan to build one of the UK’s largest film studio complexes
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Trocadero hotel roof extension started without planning permission
Westminster Council retrospectively approves scheme but describes unauthorised works as “highly regrettable”
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Spurs submits plans to boost height of hotel tower next to stadium
Partially built scheme has been dormant for four years
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Inspector approves Poplar sex club plans on appeal
Proposal for more than 100 homes above all-night fetish club were rejected last year