Design

Appeals round-up: Whisky regulations justify distillery’s extended opening hours; ‘Agricultural machinery store’ is not an agricultural use

12.10.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 6 October-12 October, 2018

RTPI blog round-up: Best planning research puts focus on design

12.10.2018

RTPI

Design | RTPI | UK

A round-up of RTPI blogs: 1 September-12 October, 2018

Appeal: Inspector praises ‘human scale’ of 48-storey tower

11.10.2018

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for a 48-storey residential skyscraper on the Isle of Dogs that will provide 332 new homes, describing it as ‘a design of the highest architectural quality’ that...

LJMU £64m redevelopment project approved

11.10.2018

Prithvi Pandya

Barton Willmore has been awarded a £64 million project by Liverpool City Council to redevelop Copperas Hill into a new student destination in the heart of Liverpool City Centre for Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU).

Tech landscape: The beauty of BIM

11.10.2018

Mark Smulian

Building information modelling is widely used by architects and contractors – but why not planners? Mark Smulian asks the question

NPPF: Designs on success?

09.10.2018

Sam Dewar

Variety of design and quality of construction should not be sacrificed in the drive to build homes at volume. The new NPPF supports a more 'holistic' approach to both, argues Sam Dewar

Appeal: Croydon Conservatives’ plan to build homes in HQ garden is vetoed

03.10.2018

Huw Morris

Croydon | Design | Housing | London

An inspector has rejected Croydon Conservative Federation’s bid to subdivide the rear garden at its headquarters to develop two family homes.

The real housing crisis is a good design crisis

02.10.2018

Dean Clifford

Solving the housing crisis is not just a matter of getting the right numbers, says Dean Clifford – developers, policymakers and planners need to be emphasising the quality of housing, too

Appeals round-up: No reason students should not expect adequate lighting, rules inspector; Chelsea balustrade decision turns on definition of 'roof'

21.09.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 15 September-21 September, 2018.

Bob Champion Research and Education Building / Martin

Appeal: NHS sign would harm amenity of award-winning building

21.09.2018

Matt Moody

A plan to install a sign displaying the NHS logo on the front façade of a RIBA award-winning research building at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital has been rejected for harm to the building's ‘visual...

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