What makes a ground floor work at street level
The ground floor is the only part of a building most people ever experience. Everything above it is seen at […]
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London Planning
London Planning is a publication about how the city gets built and rebuilt: the applications, the appeals, the housing numbers, the conservation fights and the streets that quietly change shape while everyone argues about towers.
Affordable housing means several different things at once
Few words in planning carry as much confusion as affordable. It is used in policy documents, committee reports, marketing material
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Density and daylight: the trade-off nobody fully resolves
Two things are simultaneously true about London development. More homes need to be built on the land available, which means
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Conservation areas: what they actually control, and what that costs
Conservation area designation is widely understood as a rule that says buildings must look old. That is not what it
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What a design and access statement is actually for
Most design and access statements are written at the wrong time, by the wrong person, for the wrong reader. They
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The gap between permission and a spade in the ground
A planning permission is often reported as though it were a building. It is not. It is a removal of
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