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Decision on Farrells’ controversial Battersea tower postponed
A planning decision on Farrells’s proposal for a residential tower in Battersea has been postponed after a petition against the project gathered 5,000 signatures
Tag: Housing
Maccreanor Lavington’s contentious Borough Triangle scheme approved
Maccreanor Lavington’s proposal for a high-rise scheme providing 892 homes in Borough, south London, has been given the go-ahead against a backdrop of local opposition
O’DonnellBrown’s Glasgow dockside housing plans OK’d
O’DonnellBrown Architects’ proposals for 304 new homes on the site of Glasgow’s former graving docks have secured planning permission
Torpoint community centre and town square
Torpoint Town Council is seeking a team to design a new community centre with housing and a town square [Deadline: 6 May 2025]
Glasgow’s Wyndford towers demolished
Three of Glasgow’s iconic Wyndford residential towers were demolished at the weekend following a years-long battle against the redevelopment of 600 homes, which are set to be replaced with 400 units
GRID redevelops former Birmingham industrial site into 400 homes
GRID has redeveloped a formerly contaminated brownfield site in Birmingham that was once the world centre of small arms manufacture
City of Edinburgh Council framework 2025-29
The City of Edinburgh Council has launched a £115 million construction consultancy services framework [Deadline: 15 April 2025]
New practice Working Title: ‘Too many architects means you have to specialise’
Practice name: Working Title Architects Based: Islington, London Founded: September 2023 Main people: The practice is just myself, James Bazeley, although we have a great network of freelancers and other small practices which allows us to scale up when needed. That said, we are looking to start recruiting soon as…
Planning reforms to reduce power of statutory consultees
The government is looking to trim both the number and scope of statutory consultees in its latest housebuilding-focused planning reforms
Hollaway Studio to turn Tracey Emin’s 1970s alma mater into homes
Hollaway Studio has submitted plans to create homes on the former site of a Kent arts university, where artist Tracey Emin and fashion designer Zandra Rhodes once studied