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![Dear Prime Minister: A planning & environmental wish list from Irwin Mitchell](/upload/images/library/PlanningImage-400x310.jpg)
Following Liz Truss’s victory last week, Nicola Gooch and Claire Petricca-Riding of Irwin Mitchell have put the below together as to...
14 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Oh Dear! Latest figures show planning applications in England plummet](/upload/images/Logos/NAPB400x310.png)
In the first quarter of this year, the number of planning applications received by councils in England has fallen by almost...
17 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Could modular homes solve the housing crisis?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/ModularHomes-1-400x310.jpg)
The average UK house price hit a fresh high in May, rising for the 11th month in a row, according to...
08 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Major firms continue to invest in the PRS – what’s the latest?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket-1-400x310.jpg)
The UK private rented sector has become increasingly attractive to institutional, large-scale investors in recent years as returns on investment elsewhere...
29 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Insight: Could the post-Covid construction boom be over?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-housing1400x310.png)
The number of planning approvals dipped in April and appears to have continued into May, signalling the end of the post-Covid...
24 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Looking for planning approval? Here are the best and worst locations for investors](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/BuildingPapersPlans-400x310.jpg)
The best locations for planning permission approval across the UK have been revealed by new analysis carried out by Townscape Architects. The...
17 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Why suburban Build to Rent is the one to watch](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Houses-Row-2019-400x310.jpg)
The Build to Rent (BTR) market has traditionally focused primarily on young professionals, with developments generally comprising apartment blocks with bolt-ons...
25 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Planning update – approval for homes in Hastings, Manchester & Norfolk](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyMarket-2-400x310-min.jpg)
In this mini update, PIT looks at the latest in planning applications, with affordable factory-built homes in Hastings, high-quality homes anticipated...
30 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Insight: How affordable housing targets can be reached](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Housing-1-400x310.jpg)
Here, Giles Sutcliffe, head of affordable housing at Cluttons, shares his insight on what is needed in order to achieve affordable...
16 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![TfL funding fiasco – huge numbers of new homes at risk, says Assembly member](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
Labour’s London Assembly planning spokesperson has claimed that much-needed new homes will remain unbuilt and potential jobs unfilled without long-term investment...
04 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Permission granted – planning approvals for new homes bounce back](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PlanningImage-400x310.jpg)
While the level of new homes being granted planning permission dipped during the first year of the pandemic, this negative trend...
25 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Council launches development firm to boost number of new Manchester homes](/upload/images/Locations/ManchesterMap-400x310.jpg)
A housing development company wholly owned by Manchester City Council was formally launched late last week (Friday February 4) in order...
07 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Polka dots and stripes: why the UK shouldn’t mix politics with planning](/upload/images/library/Housebuilders-400x310.jpg)
Things that don’t mix well? Polka dots and stripes, planning and politics. The run-up to an election is usually an uncertain...
17 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Insight - a closer look at off-plan property investing](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-housing1400x310.png)
The UK has a longstanding problem with housing. A shortfall in available and viable land in areas with investment potential is...
25 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![How site sourcing is being transformed by big data](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/BusinessResults-400x310-.jpg)
An effective method for sourcing and obtaining sites is critical to the success of any property developer. Starting construction on a...
08 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Development update – colossal schemes and a city within a city](/upload/images/library/DevelopmentRoundup-400x310.png)
Scarborough Group International (SGI) has submitted two reserved matters planning applications and a revised outline planning application for the next significant...
18 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - how to pick the right property development project](/img/default/pit.png)
A small project in property development industry terms can be quite literally life-changing from a personal income point of view. But...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![A day in the life of a land and planning developer](/img/default/pit.png)
Property Investor Today gains insight from Dudley Mills, land and planning director of property developers Kebbell, to uncover what the role is...
28 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![PropTech – digitising applications and ‘first of its kind’ agent platform launches](/img/default/pit.png)
Tech company The Future Fox has received funding from Innovate UK and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to...
29 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Update – Sheffield regen, RAF ‘garden village’ and Bloomsbury office to resi](/img/default/pit.png)
In this bumper development roundup, PIT explores regeneration projects in Sheffield, office to residential conversions in high-end Bloomsbury and schemes providing...
05 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![PBSA operators must provide a student-first solution to match soaring demand](/img/default/pit.png)
In a year of tumultuous uncertainty, where the headwinds of Covid-19 bore a number of new realities and decimated others, some...
11 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Development roundup – Staines, Digbeth, London and Worthing](/img/default/pit.png)
In this bumper development roundup - the final one of the year - we explore the planned creation of new developments and...
18 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Retail to resi – rising number of conversion applications are being rejected](/img/default/pit.png)
One of the biggest property investment trends of the year, driven by the pandemic and the devastation this has caused for...
18 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Do rushed planning reforms risk damaging the physical environment?](/img/default/pit.png)
In this opinion piece, Elizabeth Osborne - a legal director at Ashfords Solicitors - asks whether the government's proposed planning reforms will be dangerous...
16 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Insight: how will Brexit affect the UK property market?](/img/default/pit.png)
As the clock ticks ever closer to the end of the transition period, and the start of post-Brexit Britain from January,...
04 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Part 1: retail to residential – has John Lewis set a precedent?](/img/default/pit.png)
The high street was already struggling before the pandemic, but Covid-19 has perhaps sent it into terminal decline. High streets in major...
28 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Building onwards and upwards - what do investors need to know?](/img/default/pit.png)
With changes to the use class system and permitted development rights now in force, Christina Daniels and Marisia Beard of leading law firm...
30 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Green property - local authority enables nitrate neutral regeneration](/img/default/pit.png)
A unique site in Havant has been visited by Environment Minister Rebecca Pow after its borough council became the first local...
16 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eco property - do all options need to be on the table for green developments?](/img/default/pit.png)
One of the very few silver linings of the current coronavirus pandemic has been the seemingly positive impact lockdowns across the...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Is NIMBYism on the rise again?](/img/default/pit.png)
New research from Churchill Home Insurance has revealed that nearly two million people have complained about planning permission applications since the...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![South East London set to experience house price boost, says JLL](/img/default/pit.png)
Property prices in South East London are set to increase faster than much of Greater London thanks to significant regeneration throughout...
31 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Planning permission more likely to be approved in affluent London boroughs](/img/default/pit.png)
London boroughs with an average house price of over £1 million are more likely to have planning permissions approved, according to...
22 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![More planning permissions granted than in 2007](/img/default/pit.png)
Successful planning applications in England are up 6% since 2007, according to fresh data from Pure Commercial Finance. Planning for a major...
01 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![London has opportunity to boost significantly the supply of housing](/img/default/pit.png)
There has been record number of planning applications to build new homes in London this year, giving the city a genuine...
30 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Scotland has a ‘mountain’ to climb to solve its housing crisis](/img/default/pit.png)
Housebuilders may never meet the demand for housing north of the border due to the various challenges that they face when...
15 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Planning fee rise will not boost delivery of much needed new homes](/img/default/pit.png)
The housebuilding industry has opposed plans by the Scottish government to raise the maximum fee level for planning applications to £125,000...
03 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Planning system continues to slow housing delivery](/img/default/pit.png)
With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...
21 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Plans approved for £100m regeneration scheme in Wolverton](/img/default/pit.png)
Wolverton Works, a £100m regeneration project which will be located in the constituent town of Milton Keynes, has received planning permission St....
24 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sharp rise in number of new homes built](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of new homes recorded in England has increased to its highest level since the financial crash, official figures have...
16 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sharp rise in new housing approvals in London](/img/default/pit.png)
More than two-thirds of planning applications for the construction of new homes in London were approved during the second quarter of...
01 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Cut red tape to boost much needed housing supply in Scotland - HFS](/img/default/pit.png)
The Scottish government needs to build on the recent improvement in planning performance in order to help increase the supply of...
25 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Bristol is on the verge of a property boom](/img/default/pit.png)
Values in both the residential and commercial property sectors look set to soar as demand continues to outstrip supply, new research...
06 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Sharp rise in planning consents](/img/default/pit.png)
A chronic shortage of properties continues to drive house prices upwards across Britain. But a significant increase in the number of...
03 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![London’s super-rich target ‘iceberg homes’](/img/default/pit.png)
There has been a sharp rise in the number of mega-basement planning applications across many parts of the capital as wealthy...
03 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![MPs support hike in planning fees](/img/default/pit.png)
Over half of MPs believe that fees for planning applications should increase, according to a new poll. The survey, commissioned by the...