HTA Design gets go-ahead for ‘climate positive’ Oxfordshire homes

By Gino Spocchia 10 January 2025 1,141 Views

HTA Design has secured planning on a 42-home scheme near Didcot, south Oxfordshire, which it describes as ‘climate positive’ and ‘ecology first’

Holloway Studio’s museum for late Queen’s rocking horse maker approved

By Gino Spocchia 21 November 2024 586 Views

Hollaway Studio’s plans for 31 homes and a museum-workshop for a Kent-based rocking horse company favoured by the late Queen Elizabeth II has been given planning approval

Professor Chris Whitty is a powerful advocate for quality housing

By Julia Thrift 22 October 2024 907 Views

Chris Whitty, the most high-profile chief medical officer England has ever had, is pushing the government to prioritise healthy homes and neighbourhoods, explains Julia Thrift

Why on earth isn’t the government engaging with architects on retrofit?

By Kunle Barker 9 October 2024 5,087 Views

Without architects’ close expert involvement, government plans to retrofit millions of homes will be prone to unintended consequences such as mould, argues Kunle Barker

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Historic England launches guide for converting old buildings into homes

By Anna Highfield 3 October 2024 1,646 Views

Historic England has published new guidance for turning disused historic buildings into housing

DLG Architects gets the go-ahead for two Leeds masterplans

By Anna Highfield 31 July 2023 3,500 Views

DLG Architects has won planning permission for two major masterplans in Leeds

Gove throws £24m and planning ‘super squad’ at housing logjam

By Richard Waite 24 July 2023 5,446 Views

Housing secretary Michael Gove has promised an extra £24 million to unblock the planning system, as well as unveiling a new ‘super-squad’ of experts and vowing to allow more permitted development in a bid to build more homes

Cambridge set for 250,000 homes under government plan

By Gino Spocchia 11 July 2023 3,327 Views

The city could become a ‘Silicon Valley of Europe’ under plans to build 250,000 homes, according to reports

Bell Phillips puts forward plans for 93-home crescents scheme in Swanley

By Will Ing 11 August 2022 1,683 Views

Bell Phillips has submitted plans for 93 homes in Swanley, north Kent

LSI to replace south London garages with homes

By Greg Pitcher 5 July 2019 230 Views

Croydon Council has approved plans by LSI Architects to build four homes on the site of derelict garages on a residential street

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