25 Aug, 2020 SENSE AND SUBJECTIVITY: CONSERVATION AND THE WHITE PAPER By Timur Tatlioglu From a heritage perspective, one area that needs to be clearer as the White Paper progresses is conservation – the process of managing...
24 Aug, 2020 HOW DOES HERITAGE FIT IN TO THE LATEST PLANNING WHITE PAPER, PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE? By Roger Bowdler In a paper focussed on ‘build, build, build’, ‘heritage’ may not be centre stage. But the document’s emphasis on beauty, local character,...
18 Aug, 2020 IS REDUCING PLANNING RED TAPE ENOUGH TO DELIVER DEVELOPMENT? By Craig Blatchford As the property industry starts to grapple with the enormity of the proposed changes to the planning system put forward for consultation,...
13 Aug, 2020 UNIVERSITY ACCEPTANCES GIVE FURTHER BOOST TO STUDENT SECTOR By Will Hyslop Today’s A-level results and university acceptances are a further boost for the PBSA sector. Following the publication of results, UCAS...
12 Aug, 2020 PLANNING FOR BEAUTY By Jon Bradburn Thomas Bender One of the most potentially challenging elements of the recent planning White Paper is the concept of beauty and how this is delivered in...
11 Aug, 2020 PLANNING REFORM: SOUTH EAST HOUSING SUPPLY By Will Edmonds One tension that will need to be resolved as the new planning White Paper makes its way through the legislative process is the question...
07 Aug, 2020 PLANNING REFORM: ACCELERATING GROWTH By Craig Blatchford Yesterday’s planning White Paper kicks off a consultation period on the Government’s once in a generation planning reforms, designed to...
06 Aug, 2020 WHEN, WHERE AND HOW? FLEXIBILITY IN RETURNING TO THE LONDON OFFICE FOR GOOD By Montagu Evans The ongoing discussion centering around the return to Central London offices is one which reaches far beyond the property sector – it...
05 Aug, 2020 A RETURN TO REGIONAL PLANNING? By Will Edmonds Of all the areas likely to be impacted by the forthcoming planning reforms, strategic housing sites stand to change the most. While focus...
04 Aug, 2020 ARE THE UPCOMING PLANNING USE CLASS CHANGES WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD? By Eleanor Judd Isobel Battcock Thomas Butler-Manuel Planning and development activity isn’t the only area affected by the recently-announced changes to the Planning Use Classes Order (UCO);...
03 Aug, 2020 PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE By Craig Blatchford Following hot on the heels of changes to the Use Class Order and increased permitted developments, the government’s latest step in...