Ignore the scaremongering. PD rights are an important tool in ensuring that more homes are delivered in our town and city centres making them more sustainable and more vibrant.
Ignore the scaremongering. PD rights are an important tool in ensuring that more homes are delivered in our town and city centres making them more sustainable and more vibrant.
Working together with neighbouring land owners can be a powerful way of making sure your site is big enough for a new housing development - and help to maximise its value.
Working together with neighbouring land owners can be a powerful way of making sure your site is big enough for a new housing development - and help to maximise its value.
Those opposed to government proposals to reform the planning system are exploiting a natural nervousness about change but this is no developers’ charter.
Those opposed to government proposals to reform the planning system are exploiting a natural nervousness about change but this is no developers’ charter.
Buying a small plot of "strategic" land might seem like an easy way to make money - but the investment schemes aren't always what they seem.
Buying a small plot of "strategic" land might seem like an easy way to make money - but the investment schemes aren't always what they seem.
Investors trying to get in on the house price boom have lost large chunks of their life savings buying up development plots that have virtually zero chance of securing planning permission.
Investors trying to get in on the house price boom have lost large chunks of their life savings buying up development plots that have virtually zero chance of securing planning permission.
With increasing pressure to hit housing targets, this webinar looks at the role brownfield land could play in meeting those goals and what the government is doing to help.
With increasing pressure to hit housing targets, this webinar looks at the role brownfield land could play in meeting those goals and what the government is doing to help.
Proposals to force developers to speed up housing build rates are based on a false premise. They won't increase housing supply are could even make the problem worse.
Proposals to force developers to speed up housing build rates are based on a false premise. They won't increase housing supply are could even make the problem worse.
A Planning Bill setting out the government's proposed reforms to the planning system is on its way - but what changes can we expect it to deliver?
A Planning Bill setting out the government's proposed reforms to the planning system is on its way - but what changes can we expect it to deliver?
The reason more homes aren't delivered each year is nothing to do with the planning system - its land banking developers. Except that isn't true at all.
The reason more homes aren't delivered each year is nothing to do with the planning system - its land banking developers. Except that isn't true at all.
We get out our crystal ball and consider what the future holds for strategic land as we move beyond the pandemic and into a world of planning reform.
We get out our crystal ball and consider what the future holds for strategic land as we move beyond the pandemic and into a world of planning reform.
Our MD, Paul Smith, considers the new National Model Design Code - and whether it will help deliver more beautiful homes - in this episode of the 50 Shades of Planning podcast.
Our MD, Paul Smith, considers the new National Model Design Code - and whether it will help deliver more beautiful homes - in this episode of the 50 Shades of Planning podcast.
This blog looks at thorny issue of the green belt, the misunderstandings around it and how it is acting as a giant black hole, sucking in all attempts to plan
This blog looks at thorny issue of the green belt, the misunderstandings around it and how it is acting as a giant black hole, sucking in all attempts to plan
Young people suffering the worst effects of the housing crisis are increasingly fed-up with home-owning older people making decisions on their behalf.
Young people suffering the worst effects of the housing crisis are increasingly fed-up with home-owning older people making decisions on their behalf.
Local election campaigning focuses on simplified messages about development, but politicians should be brave enough to explain the benefits of housebuilding.
Local election campaigning focuses on simplified messages about development, but politicians should be brave enough to explain the benefits of housebuilding.
The proposed planning reforms are an opportunity to produce a cost-effective and more predictable system that delivers better outcomes and maintains public involvement.
The proposed planning reforms are an opportunity to produce a cost-effective and more predictable system that delivers better outcomes and maintains public involvement.
