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UAE to invest £10 billion in priority UK industries

The UK Office for Investment (OfI) and Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company, today signed an agreement at Downing Street to significantly expand the UAE-UK Sovereign Investment Partnership (UAE-UK SIP), a...

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Tackling the under-supply of housing in England

Failing to meet housing need Estimates have put the number of new homes needed in England at up to 345,000 per year, accounting for new household formation and a backlog...

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Building on London’s Green Belt. BBC London’s Leana Hosea reports.

According to the London Green Belt Council there are plans to build more than 230,000 new homes on the London green belt. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoAVOkqmm2g&ab_channel=LeanaHosea

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Green Belt land betrayal – for quarter of a million houses (UK)

Green Belt land betrayal - for quarter of a million houses. Guaranteed to be left as green decades ago in the London area, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is aiming to...

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Is a Greenbelt review the solution to London’s housing crisis?

In February 2018 we published an article focusing on regeneration,  looking at how the investment in such development should be managed for the betterment of the existing community 1. The risk back...

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‘Eight weeks to save green belt’ as region’s future is mapped out

Seven Cornfields is one of the sites that could be developed The consultation on the Black Country Plan opens on Monday and will last for eight weeks, giving residents the...

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Decision due on plans for new residential developments at Alderley Park

Plans to build houses on the two of the remaining undeveloped residential parcels of land in the southern campus area of Alderley Park will be considered by the Northern Planning...

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Number of housing sites planned on London’s green belt has trebled in four years, report claims | Planning Resource

The number of housing sites allocated on London's green belt in local plans has trebled in the past four years, according to a study by a conservation pressure group, which...

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How to Get Planning Permission for Building on Green Belt Land in the UK

Planning Consultant Mark Morris explains how to get Planning Permission to build on the Green Belt. One of the most common questions we get from landowners and property developers is:...

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How to Get Planning Permission in the Open Countryside

In this video, Chartered Planning & Development Surveyor, Chris Whitehouse answers the tricky question of how to achieve planning permission in the open countryside. We take a look at two...

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