architecture

Natural Capital Committee chair receives knighthood

04.01.2021

Laura Edgar

Professor Dieter Robin Helm CBE has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s New Year Honours.

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Appeal: Islington infill home 'would relate to neither neighbour'

29.05.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has refused permission for a new home in a gap between two Georgian terraces in Islington despite its design by an award-winning architect, citing harm to the conservation area.

Appeals round-up: Art Deco student halls would ‘dominate’ Southampton street; Unacceptable traffic levels from home-based hair salon

29.03.2019

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 23 March-29 March, 2019

Appeal: Art Deco student halls would ‘dominate’ Southampton street

28.03.2019

Matt Moody

An inspector has dismissed plans to replace a former Blockbuster video store with a five-storey student accommodation block, ruling that the building's Art Deco design elements did not outweigh its ‘dominant...

Appeal: Modernist Hampstead home saved from demolition

01.03.2019

Matt Moody

A modernist home in Hampstead, previously owned by Baroness Serota, the late British Government minister and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, will not be demolished to make way for an ‘overly...

Legal landscape: Is the revised NPPF visibly different on design?

11.09.2018

Meeta Kaur & Spencer Tewis Allen

The revised NPPF has a stronger emphasis on design than its predecessor. Meeta Kaur and Spencer Tewis-Allen consider the shift and what it may mean for applicants and planning authorities.

Social enterprise scheme to recruit planners launches

30.10.2017

Laura Edgar

Built environment organisations have launched a social enterprise that aims to place a new generation of planners within local government to help deliver more housing and address the housing crisis.

Irish architects urge planning reforms to speed housing delivery

21.09.2017

Roger Milne

architecture | Housing | Ireland | planning | Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland

The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) has proposed a streamlined system to regulate and process housing planning applications.

Appeal: Reinstatement of 19th century garden would enhance Regent’s Park area

05.05.2017

architecture | Heritage | London

An inspector has approved plans to reinstate a garden next to London’s Regent’s Park that was in place for much of the 19th century before being replaced with a road, after ruling it would...

Ireland round-up: Minister fleshes out Irish planning framework; Fears Bray Harbour could be abandoned

02.12.2016

Roger Milne

A round-up of planning news in Ireland: 26 November-2 December, 2016

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