Anna Highfield

Heritage groups have described as ‘a war of attrition’ Buttress Architects’ appeal against the refusal of its reworked plans for a £58 million student housing block in Manchester city centre

The ARB has said it will retain a key element of its proposed new continuing professional development (CPD) scheme, despite a backlash from the industry

The government has given the owners of a huge Norfolk house 18 months to knock it down, after they lost an appeal for retrospective planning permission

Hackney Council has approved Mowat & Company’s transformation of an old haberdashery in Dalston, east London, into flats and a revamped commercial space

Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) has beaten Foster + Partners in the competition to design a replacement for Florida’s famous Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

Kingston Council has rejected revised plans by 3DReid to transform Richard Seifert’s Tolworth Tower in Surbiton, south-west London

GPAD Architects has hit out after Harrow Council refused its plans for an 18-home project in north-west London, despite the application being tipped for approval

A ‘crisis in recruitment’ within local planning authorities has created a bottleneck which is slowing down the progress of projects, according to the Local Government Association (LGA)’s planning expert

Alec French Architects has submitted its highly anticipated plans to demolish Bristol’s Rupert Street Car Park and replace it with a mixed-use scheme featuring a new car park of a ‘very similar’ scale

Last month, built-environment professionals from across the country took to the streets, demanding urgent government action on carbon emissions. They were met with near-silence. So were the protests pointless?