All Planning articles
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Opinion
Let’s turn the ‘grey belt’ green
Can the new ‘grey belt’ concept provide a pathway to sustainable housing without sacrificing the green belt, asks Jerry Tate
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Opinion
What makes a successful new town?
Samuel Hughes explores the key elements of successful new towns through history and how these lessons might inform the new government’s housing strategy
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News
Leeds co-living scheme is approved at appeal
Yeme Architects gets go-ahead for 78-unit plans at listed former library
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News
LDA Design floats £40m transformation plans for Holborn
Camden Council project aims to deliver “safer, traffic-free environment” with a range of projects
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News
GPAD gets OK for south London infill scheme
Proposals will deliver terrace of three houses in conservation area
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Opinion
Mall-Ware: How Britain’s shopping centres went from saviours to wreckers of the high street
Planning largely saved Britain’s town centres from the ravages of out of town shopping, but that just forced the malls onto the high street, writes David Rudlin
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News
New York Times takes aim at London’s ‘cacophonous’ skyline
Discretionary planning system and penchant for starchitects blamed for “jarring profusion of odd skyscrapers”
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News
Foster says London is ‘coasting’ on planning heritage
Architect also rips into government for cancelling HS2 line to Manchester
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News
Sheppard Robson gets approval for 27-storey north London tower
Latest phase of Hornsey Gasworks regeneration will deliver 377 homes and a new public square
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Opinion
Traffic in Towns: 60 years on from Colin Buchanan’s prophetic report
On the 60th anniversary of the landmark publication David Rudlin asks whether there has ever been a report that has done more damage to our cities
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News
GPAD gets go-ahead for Herts housing plans
Scheme will deliver nine new homes on site of 1950s bungalow near Welwyn Garden City
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News
RCKa lodges plans for east London youth centre
Chadwell Heath scheme is backed by £2m in government funding
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Opinion
What Thomas the Tank Engine can tell us about HS2
Unnecessarily onerous regulation contributes to the high cost of building railways in the UK, writes David Rudlin
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News
Dowen Farmer infill scheme approved at appeal
Lewisham Council rejected five-home proposals over parking, refuse and overlooking concerns
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News
Howells’ 690-home Coventry scheme OK’d by planning inspector
Proposals for former gasworks site also include elements by BPN Architects
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Opinion
Change requires designers to stick their necks out and propose what a better future might be
Having put out a call for an alternative to the term ‘master plan’ David Rudlin reviews some of the many suggestions
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News
PLP draws up yet more Westferry Printworks proposals
Latest plans for Docklands site would deliver more than 1,300 new homes and a new secondary school
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News
Developer rejects council claims over ‘mutant’ Woolwich towers
Demolition call for 204 home scheme “misrepresents situation”, firm insists
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Opinion
In praise of contractors
Contractors deserve the respect and admiration of architects, writes Matthew Lloyd
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News
John Lewis boss calls for royal commission to save high streets
Sharon White says planning, taxation, crime, environmental policy, housing and transport issues must be “considered as a whole”