All Building Design articles in September 2026
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NewsKatie Lam appointed shadow housing secretary in Conservative reshuffle
Mel Stride also replaced as shadow chancellor by former Just Eat chairman Andrew Griffiths
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NewsGreen light for MLA’s Sky customer service hub in West Lothian
Scheme to house around 3,000 staff across 15-acre campus
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NewsCartwright Pickard gets BSR approval for first phase of 2,300-bed scheme
Construction on scheme designed by Cartwright Pickard expected to complete in time for 2029/30 academic year
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NewsHand Network Rail land to metro mayors to speed up housing delivery around train stations, think tank tells government
Centre for Cities said matching housing density around stations seen in France and Japan could reduce UK’s housing shortage by 25%
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NewsRIBA contest invites students to submit ideas for solar panels on small island states
Competition calls for proposals to embed panels in tourist infrastructure on climate-vulnerable islands
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NewsAlmost 90% of council planning departments understaffed despite housebuilding push, warns HBF
New NPPF puts already under-resourced planning teams under further stress, says new report
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NewsEngineering consultancy AKT II rebrands as Tyréns AKT
Name changed to reflect firm’s parent company Tyréns Group
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NewsDowen Farmer gets green light for 200 council homes in latest phase of Battersea Power Station masterplan
All homes will be for social rent in GLA-backed scheme
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NewsPennycook confirms final new town locations to be chosen by end of the year
Programme will feature ‘bespoke’ planning policy and ‘site specific’ delivery vehicles
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NewsReform UK unveils sweeping plans to deregulate the planning system
Party wants to cut affordable housing requirements to 5%, scrap BNG requirements, section 106 payments and most building standards on brownfield housing schemes
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Features‘A distinctive legacy in a now fracturing and confused profession’… Adrian Gale, 1931-2026
Matthew Lloyd looks back at the long life and career of his friend Adrian Gale, who died in July
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NewsHowells’ plans to redevelop Derby’s historic Assembly Rooms get final green light
Music venue that has hosted gigs by The Smiths, Oasis and Elton John has been shut for over a decade
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NewsNimtim architects completes accessible bungalow extension in Suffolk
151sqm Evermore project in Aldeburgh combines a retained bungalow with a new extension, using Viroc cladding, clay plaster and microcement to create a low-maintenance home designed for long-term adaptability
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NewsBroadway Malyan and Stride Treglown directors appointed to BCO’s new presidential team
British Council for Offices welcomes new vice president and under 35s representative
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NewsGreen light for FCBS’s 200-home mansion block scheme approved by Bath council
Architect praised for ‘imaginative’ design, but proportion of affordable homes drops compared with 2016 consent
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NewsHaptic Architects and Gort Scott appointed on floating homes project at Royal Docks
Practices to lead nine-month feasibility study on residential component of mixed-use floating scheme next to City Hall
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NewsWolverhampton approves 6,750-home city centre regeneration plan
Blueprint identifies 33 potential development sites
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NewsHawkins\Brown wins £2.6m job to design Oxford station masterplan
Scheme to include offices, life sciences and housing
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FeaturesReform UK conference: Funding furore overshadows radical planning proposals
An undercover Channel 4 investigation forced two senior Reform UK figures to resign during the party’s Birmingham conference, deepening questions about its electoral prospects. But the party’s radical brownfield planning proposals still have significant appeal in the construction industry
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NewsPlans in for Orms’ BT Tower hotel
Scheme for US hotel giant to open up grade II-listed building to the public for the first time in nearly 50 years