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Following Liz Truss’s victory last week, Nicola Gooch and Claire Petricca-Riding of Irwin Mitchell have put the below together as to...

In the first quarter of this year, the number of planning applications received by councils in England has fallen by almost...

The average UK house price hit a fresh high in May, rising for the 11th month in a row, according to...

The UK private rented sector has become increasingly attractive to institutional, large-scale investors in recent years as returns on investment elsewhere...

The number of planning approvals dipped in April and appears to have continued into May, signalling the end of the post-Covid...

The best locations for planning permission approval across the UK have been revealed by new analysis carried out by Townscape Architects. The...

The Build to Rent (BTR) market has traditionally focused primarily on young professionals, with developments generally comprising apartment blocks with bolt-ons...

In this mini update, PIT looks at the latest in planning applications, with affordable factory-built homes in Hastings, high-quality homes anticipated...

Here, Giles Sutcliffe, head of affordable housing at Cluttons, shares his insight on what is needed in order to achieve affordable...

Labour’s London Assembly planning spokesperson has claimed that much-needed new homes will remain unbuilt and potential jobs unfilled without long-term investment...

While the level of new homes being granted planning permission dipped during the first year of the pandemic, this negative trend...

A housing development company wholly owned by Manchester City Council was formally launched late last week (Friday February 4) in order...

Things that don’t mix well? Polka dots and stripes, planning and politics. The run-up to an election is usually an uncertain...

The UK has a longstanding problem with housing. A shortfall in available and viable land in areas with investment potential is...

An effective method for sourcing and obtaining sites is critical to the success of any property developer. Starting construction on a...

Scarborough Group International (SGI) has submitted two reserved matters planning applications and a revised outline planning application for the next significant...

A small project in property development industry terms can be quite literally life-changing from a personal income point of view. But...

Property Investor Today gains insight from Dudley Mills, land and planning director of property developers Kebbell, to uncover what the role is...

Tech company The Future Fox has received funding from Innovate UK and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to...

In this bumper development roundup, PIT explores regeneration projects in Sheffield, office to residential conversions in high-end Bloomsbury and schemes providing...

In a year of tumultuous uncertainty, where the headwinds of Covid-19 bore a number of new realities and decimated others, some...

In this bumper development roundup - the final one of the year - we explore the planned creation of new developments and...

One of the biggest property investment trends of the year, driven by the pandemic and the devastation this has caused for...

In this opinion piece, Elizabeth Osborne - a legal director at Ashfords Solicitors - asks whether the government's proposed planning reforms will be dangerous...

As the clock ticks ever closer to the end of the transition period, and the start of post-Brexit Britain from January,...

The high street was already struggling before the pandemic, but Covid-19 has perhaps sent it into terminal decline. High streets in major...

With changes to the use class system and permitted development rights now in force, Christina Daniels and Marisia Beard of leading law firm...

A unique site in Havant has been visited by Environment Minister Rebecca Pow after its borough council became the first local...

One of the very few silver linings of the current coronavirus pandemic has been the seemingly positive impact lockdowns across the...

New research from Churchill Home Insurance has revealed that nearly two million people have complained about planning permission applications since the...

Property prices in South East London are set to increase faster than much of Greater London thanks to significant regeneration throughout...

London boroughs with an average house price of over £1 million are more likely to have planning permissions approved, according to...

Successful planning applications in England are up 6% since 2007, according to fresh data from Pure Commercial Finance. Planning for a major...

There has been record number of planning applications to build new homes in London this year, giving the city a genuine...

Housebuilders may never meet the demand for housing north of the border due to the various challenges that they face when...

The housebuilding industry has opposed plans by the Scottish government to raise the maximum fee level for planning applications to £125,000...

With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...

Wolverton Works, a £100m regeneration project which will be located in the constituent town of Milton Keynes, has received planning permission St....

The number of new homes recorded in England has increased to its highest level since the financial crash, official figures have...

More than two-thirds of planning applications for the construction of new homes in London were approved during the second quarter of...

The Scottish government needs to build on the recent improvement in planning performance in order to help increase the supply of...

Values in both the residential and commercial property sectors look set to soar as demand continues to outstrip supply, new research...

A chronic shortage of properties continues to drive house prices upwards across Britain. But a significant increase in the number of...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of mega-basement planning applications across many parts of the capital as wealthy...

Over half of MPs believe that fees for planning applications should increase, according to a new poll. The survey, commissioned by the...

A former BBC site, located in Corridor Manchester, has been named the contradictory ‘Circle Square’, and is set to be a...