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03.07.2020airbnb | camden borough council | Housing | housing stock | Leisure & Tourism | London | space standardsAn inspector has refused retrospective permission for the conversion of a four-storey townhouse in King’s Cross into nine individual short-term holiday lets, considering the resulting loss of permanent...
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03.07.2020Business & Enterprise | high streets | London | permitted development | Policy & Politics | residential conversion | retail | vitalityAn inspector has cited harm to living conditions, heritage and shopping street vitality in refusing the conversion of a vacant Croydon shop unit into a flat, in a decision published the day after plans were...
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26.06.2020An inspector has upheld enforcement action against a social club for the Turkish and Kurdish community in Stoke Newington, finding it contrary to local policies on shopping frontages.
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26.06.2020affordable housing | building design | called-in decision | Design | Finance & Viability | Heritage | London | mayor of LondonThe housing secretary has taken his inspector’s advice to approve a regeneration scheme in West London after negotiations with the Mayor of London led the developer to double the scheme’s affordable housing...
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26.06.2020active travel | Coronavirus | covid-19 | cycling | Health | Infrastructure - Green | Infrastructure - Transport | London | walking | zero carbonThe Covid-19 crisis is prompting councils to ‘reallocate’ road space to encourage active travel and enable pedestrians to get around safely. Measures are temporary but, asks Simon Wicks, does this herald a...
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25.06.2020Property developer U+I has made provision for around 1,500 new homes in plans submitted for a mixed-use scheme on London’s Greenwich Peninsula.
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25.06.2020Community Infrastructure Levy | Development Management & Enforcement | England | Isle of Dogs | London | Policy & Politics | robert jenrick | steve reedDocuments released by housing secretary Robert Jenrick regarding his decision to approve a 1,524-home scheme on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets show he ‘insisted’ a decision was made before it was ‘impacted by a change in the London CIL regime’.
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15.06.2020building safety | building safety fund | Cladding | Development Management & Enforcement | Grenfell Tower | Housing | housing communities and local government committee | London | Policy & Politics | UKThere are 300 buildings with ACM cladding awaiting remediation, and another 11,300 buildings with other forms of combustible cladding, three years on from the fire at Grenfell Tower in west London, which killed 72 people.
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15.06.2020An app to monitor affordable housing throughout its lifetime has won the 2020 RTPI Award for Excellence in Tech within Planning Practice. Simon Wicks finds out how it works and how openness...
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12.06.2020A plan to convert a pub’s living quarters into a self-contained flat that would have zero build costs but would increase the property's value by £18,000 should incur an affordable housing contribution, an...
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