All Vicky Payne articles

Features

Will design codes help unlock the planning system?

2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Berkeley Homes has gone to war with Michael Gove over the design quality of a scheme in Kent. Compulsory local design codes are meant to help avoid such conflict. Will they work?

Opinion

The Professor and the Miner’s Son: the story of Britain's biggest shopping mall

2023-03-21T05:00:00Z

David Rudlin tells the story of how a left-wing planner enabled the son of a miner to build Britain’s largest out-of-town shopping centre