All UK articles
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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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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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NewsEngineering consultancy AKT II rebrands as Tyréns AKT
Name changed to reflect firm’s parent company Tyréns Group
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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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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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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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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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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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NewsMayors to be given call-in powers over planning decisions
Burnham says measure will ‘cut both ways’ with regional leaders able to reject unsuitable schemes as well as overriding local refusals
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NewsGRID and Heatherwick’s stalled plans for 1,800 homes in Camden finally approved after design revisions
Changes to O2 shopping centre regeneration include increased building heights and additional homes
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NewsArcadis wins £6.6m job to lead design team on rebuild of RAAC-hit Surrey hospital
Firm appointed as lead designer on redevelopment of Frimley Park Hospital
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NewsSheppard Robson appointed to design ‘innovative’ new through school in Stockport
School project part of wider regeneration of Stockport’s town centre
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NewsGlasgow launches design contest to replace two fire-hit tenement blocks
B-listed blocks in Pollokshields conservation area destroyed in 2019 and 2020
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NewsNottingham practice Franklin Ellis Architects gets green light for 425 Cambridge homes
Scheme to be built on disused railway land
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NewsAHMM sends in plans for 2,000 homes in east London
Scheme is final phase of Stratford Cross development
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NewsGovernment begins search for £104k-a-year Building Safety Regulator chair role
Position has been held on interim basis by former London Fire Brigade commissioner Andy Roe since last July
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NewsFosters’ London HQ for US billionaire’s science institute unanimously approved
Westminster signs off refurb of listed townhouse site on St James’s Square for Larry Ellison, world’s sixth richest man
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NewsCentre Point engineer Wilem Frischmann dies aged 95
Former Pell Frischmann chairman considered among the most influential engineers of the 20th century
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NewsRIBA welcomes new NPPF as ‘significant shift’ towards plan-led approach
Chris Williamson said there was much to welcome in new planning rules