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Appeal: Residential conversion of listed London police station blocked

26.07.2018

A plan to convert the grade II listed Wealdstone Police Station into nine flats was refused after an inspector upheld six of the council’s 10 reasons for refusal.

Appeal: Residents of converted BHS store would have ‘very poor’ living conditions

01.12.2017

Matt Moody

Business & Enterprise | high street retail | Housing | living conditions | London

Plans to re-use and extend a vacant former BHS building in Bromley to incorporate 42 flats have been refused, after an inspector found that some of the occupants would have 'very poor and inadequate...

Eight-year low for retail planning applications

03.08.2017

Laura Edgar

Economic Growth | England | high street retail | high streets | retail

Planning applications for new shops and shopping centres in England fell to 6,525 in the year March 2017, an eight-year low and nearly half the number of 2008/09, according to property lending platform Lendy.

News in brief: Government must give housing associations more freedom to build; High street gloom continues as shop openings fall

20.09.2016

Huw Morris

A round-up of planning news: Tuesday 20 September, 2016

Appeal: Kensington Odeon replacement scheme approved

17.02.2016

Martha Harris

A proposed retention of the cinema façade of a former Odeon cinema in Kensington High Street, London, including two replacement cinemas, 63 residential units, a café, retail and office accommodation has been...

Report suggests new strategy to boost high streets

18.01.2016

Laura Edgar

The lack of a strategy for bringing together, under single asset management, the “fragmented ownership” of properties in town centres is one of the causes of their “failure and underperformance”, concludes a new report backed by the British Property Federation.

Retailers need to plan for business rate changes now

08.12.2015

Laura Edgar

London and the South-East face increases in business rates whereas the rest of the UK is expected to see reductions, according to research.

‘Convenience culture’ helps revive high street

30.07.2014

Marino Donati

Business & Enterprise | high street retail | Social infrastructure | UK

The number of smaller convenience stores on the high street is expected to increase as superstore market share falls, according to a new study.