14 Feb, 2023 A FAIRER, GREENER, SCOTLAND - NATIONAL PLANNING FRAMEWORK 4 APPROVED By Andrew Dunbar Gregor Southall The revised draft of the Fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), which was first laid before the Scottish Parliament in November 2022,...
24 Aug, 2022 PODCAST: NEXTGEN LEADERS SERIES - EPISODE 2 (PART 2) WITH LYN GARNER By Tom Loake Welcome to the latest episode of Montagu Evans Talks… The NextGen Leaders Series. The podcast that hears directly from Property and Real...
12 Jul, 2022 THE COMMERCIAL RENT ACT 2022 - WHAT DOES IT MEAN? By Matthew Rickman The Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022, known as “the Act”, aims to support the resolution of commercial rent debt accrued during the...
11 Apr, 2022 THE BEAUTY OF DESIGN REVIEW By Thomas Bender When the NPPF was first published in March 2012, the most revolutionary aspect of the document was its brevity. 50 pages were sufficient...
08 Apr, 2022 GO AHEAD ON APPEAL FOR MAJOR BASILDON HOUSING PLANS By Lucy Markham Marson Property Ltd has been given the go ahead on appeal for the redevelopment of the Town Square North shopping centre in Basildon to...
29 Sep, 2021 FORMULATING CIL MITIGATION STRATEGIES IN AN ASSET REPURPOSING WORLD By Sam Stackhouse Josh Myerson Will Seamer It has now been a little over one year since the revolutionary reforms to the planning system were first prescribed in the Planning for...
07 Apr, 2021 ATTENTION ALL RESIDENTIAL PLANNING APPLICANTS: UPDATED RICS GUIDANCE ON VIABILITY By Will Seamer Harry Wackett The long-awaited new RICS Guidance Note for Viability has been published. The full new Guidance is available at the bottom of this page,...
09 Mar, 2021 HOW CAN SOCIAL VALUE BE INTEGRATED INTO THE PLANNING PROCESS? By Rachel Mushet This year’s National Social Value Conference took place on the 23rd and 24th of February 2021. The theme of the Conference was ‘Recover,...
14 Dec, 2020 THE FUTURE OF AFFORDABLE LOCAL WORKSPACE By James Huish With the Draft London Plan due to be adopted in the New Year, a raft of new policies will be brought to the fore in the determination of...
05 Oct, 2020 VIABILITY AND HOW TO GET IT RIGHT IN THE CURRENT CLIMATE By Will Seamer On Wednesday 23rd September I gave a presentation on Viability at the LD Events Residential Development and Site Finding Conference. My...
27 Jul, 2020 HAVE WE ALL CHANGED FOREVER? IF SO WHAT SHOULD OUR STRATEGY BE FOR TOWN CENTRES? By John Percy There is a lot of debate about the immediate impact of COVID-19, but I am intrigued by the longer term implications. Will our behaviours...
07 Jul, 2020 HERITAGE & VIABILITY - A HOLISTIC VIEW ON ENABLING DEVELOPMENT By Kate Falconer Hall Harry Wackett Rosie Adamson Last week Historic England adopted their new ‘Enabling Development Good Practice Advice Note 4’ – an update on the 2008 publication. Our...