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There have been seismic shifts in planning in the past 12 months as housebuilders and developers are back with a vengeance. Previously stalled schemes are being reviewed and new developments are being...
According to leading property experts in the Midlands, the warnings of the need to prevent a looming housing crisis are not being heeded.
Peter Leaver, Planning Director at Jones Lang LaSalle,...
Planning consultancy Turley Associates has submitted ten major planning applications for office, logistics, industrial, residential and leisure floor space on land owned by the Trustees of the Barker...
Opus Land has announced that they will shortly be submitting a planning application for a second Waitrose store for the Midlands in Worcester. If successful, Opus plans to start work in autumn 2014,...
The Government’s review of local authority funding and the introduction of the Local Authority Business Rate Retention Scheme (BRRS) opens a new window of opportunity for developers and local...
Ministers have decided that a planning application, which would see hundreds of homes demolished and rebuilt in Liverpool’s Welsh Streets area should be ‘called-in’ for determination....
Commercial property consultancy Vail Williams' Guildford office has signed up two talented new additions and made two promotions in its Crawley and London teams.
Joining the planning discipline...
A new bill aimed at fast-tracking large-scale business and commercial projects could help to unlock major pieces of land according to local planning expert, Nigel Simkin, associate director, planning...
William Blake famously wrote that Jerusalem would be ‘builded there in England’s green and pleasant land.’ It is with Blake’s verse in mind, that I am considering the government’s...
Exeter-based property developer, Grenadier Estates, has secured planning permission to develop an innovative new scheme of eco-cottages at Widemouth Bay in north Cornwall.
Built on the site of...