Posts from November 2016
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GLA opens consultation on new affordable housing guidance
The Greater London Authority is currently consulting on new supplementary planning guidance that addresses the tricky issue of securing...
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Enforced Pooling or better manager competition?
It is an inherent contradiction in capitalism that, to be totally successful, it must become monopolistic, and therefore be a total...
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Land Registry Privatisation laid to rest - until next time
Tucked into the Autumn statement today is a footnote that the government has decided not to proceed with Land Registry Privatisation. So...
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The Last Autumn Statement.... but no Housing White Paper
Philip Hammond has just delivered the Autumn Statement and wiser heads than mine will be analysing its contents as I type. Although the...
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Barwell hints at further development land tax in housing white paper
In a speech at the London Property Summit last week, Housing Minister, Gavin Barwell, indicated that the development industry's...
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Redfern Review: Collapse in home ownership due to lack of money - not lack of supply
Jeremy Corbyn's review of the housing market, which is due to be published today, has bucked the trend for blaming a lack of housing...
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The cost of poor decision making: research gives insight into planning costs awards against Councils
Most of us who work in the development sector are aware that local authority planning committees can be highly unpredictable - with local...
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(Brutalist) Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
Given the widely publicised events of this week, you could be forgiven for missing the declaration of war that was hidden in a speech by ...
04/11/16