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Bill Bryson joins top names in opposing M&S Oxford Street demolition plan
Author Bill Bryson has added his name to those opposing Pilbrow + Partners’ scheme for Marks & Spencer which would flatten its flagship Oxford Street store
Planning
News about the planning system in the UK, including permitted development rights, the National Planning Policy Framework, the London Plan and the ‘country house’ clause
Woods Bagot to submit plans for skyscraper by Leadenhall Market
Woods Bagot is designing a 32-storey skyscraper for 85 Gracechurch Street by Leadenhall Market in the City of London
SAVE Britain’s Heritage launches crowdfunder ahead of M&S public inquiry
Heritage charity SAVE Britain's Heritage has launched an appeal to raise £20,000 after announcing it will formally oppose Pilbrow + Partners' plan for Marble Arch store at a public inquiry this autumn
Michael Gove sacked as levelling up and housing minister
Michael Gove has been fired from his role as the levelling up, housing and communities secretary by embattled prime minister Boris Johnson
Squire & Partners loses appeal over Custom House hotel conversion plans
A planning inspector has thrown out Squire & Partners’ plans to convert and extend the Grade I-listed Custom House into a hotel
Astragal: Schumacher foments anarcho-capitalist revolution
Patrik Schumacher is a busy man. Not content with running a 700-person company as principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, the German architect is also publishing a ‘serialised treatise’ about anarcho-capitalist revolution, which he advocates. The first instalment, as subscribers to Schumacher’s newsletter will know, was an 8,000-word essay ruminating on…
Do we really want Nine Elms remembered for a gimmicky swimming pool?
The redeveloped area stretching from Battersea Power Station to Vauxhall seems like a missed opportunity; yet it is not too late to capitalise on the area’s industrial potential, argues Dennis Austin
Gove asked to explain move to ‘radically centralise’ planning
Housing minister Michael Gove has been formally asked to explain an aspect of his proposed planning reforms that critics say would ‘radically centralise planning decision-making’
Gove sends Pilbrow’s M&S Oxford St scheme to public inquiry
Communities secretary Michael Gove has called in Pilbrow & Partners’ plans to bulldoze and rebuild Marks & Spencer’s famous store at Marble Arch
What can we learn from the German planning system?
Germany and the UK both have planning systems that are democratic, operating on a national, regional and local level. What lessons can we learn from one another? asks Frederic Akuffo