Masterplanning

Appeals round-up: Single drainage pipe means development has commenced; R&D building for AONB diamond manufacturing firm approved

26.02.2021

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 20 Februrary-26 February, 2021

Suburbia reimagined

16.03.2020

Neil Holly

It might not have a glamorous image, but Swindon – home to the spitfire, the nationwide building society, and birthplace of screen sirens Diana Dors and Billie Piper – has led a revolution in house design...

Garden city principles provide a better vision for housing

24.01.2020

Patrick Clarke

Garden city principles provide a blueprint for the large scale housebuilding required to solve the UK's housing shortage, argues Patrick Clarke.

Lesson of the master: An interview with David Rudlin

31.08.2018

Simon Wicks

As a director of URBED, chair of the Academy of Urbanism and winner of the 2014 Wolfson Prize for...

Tech landscape: Respecting Liverpool's protected views

25.05.2018

Matt Moody

What's to stop a city's most valued buildings being visually swamped by new development? Matt Moody finds out how the masterplanners of the Liverpool Waters scheme have incorporated views into a masterplan...

SOYO scheme in Leeds receives green light

17.05.2018

Prithvi Pandya

Planning permission has been granted for the first phase of the £300 million SOYO mixed-use scheme in Leeds named New York Square.

British Land and Southwark Council set to develop Canada Water

14.05.2018

Prithvi Pandya

Southwark Council has entered into a master development agreement with British Land to deliver 3,000 new homes to Canada Water, 35 per cent of which would be affordable.

We Made That appointed masterplanner for Park Royal Centre

14.05.2018

Prithvi Pandya

The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) has chosen architecture and urbanism practice We Made That as masterplanner for Park Royal Centre.

Appeal: Refusing windows would not ‘amputate’ Media Wales building

11.04.2018

Matt Moody

Cardiff | Cardiff Central Square | Cymru | Masterplanning | Plan Making - Master Planning

An inspector has refused a plan to add windows to the blank eastern wall of the Media Wales building in Cardiff, because it could ‘severely limit construction’ envisaged in the council's...

Appeals round-up: Deletion of affordable housing condition makes Oldham scheme viable; North London bowls club saved from redevelopment

23.02.2018

Matt Moody

A round-up of planning appeals: 17 February-23 February, 2018

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