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The built environment profession has broadly welcomed Labour’s plans to overhaul the planning system and deliver the next new towns
Starmer’s proposed planning reforms welcomed by the profession
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Labour promises to overhaul UK’s ‘antiquated’ planning system
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has promised sweeping changes to the UK’s planning system in a bid to deliver homes and low-carbon infrastructure
Bartlett and John McAslan report calls for 72,000 more social homes a year
The government should fund councils to build an extra 72,000 social and affordable homes a year, the Bartlett and John McAslan + Partners have urged in a new report
Chipperfield calls for new embodied carbon rules: ‘Don’t knock a building down’
Pritzker Prize-winning architect David Chipperfield has called for new RetroFirst-based planning regulations, adding he no longer likes cantilevers because of their energy cost
Gove postpones decision on Make’s South Bank tower – again
Michael Gove has further delayed his decision on Make’s controversial proposals to redevelop the former ITV Studios on London’s South Bank
Grimshaw’s Euston HS2 station loses more platforms under Sunak rethink
Grimshaw’s London Euston HS2 station will be shrunk to just six platforms under Rishi Sunak's latest vision for the flagging project
Scrapping HS2 northern leg is ‘substantial setback’ – architects react
The prime minister has finally confirmed he is scrapping the northern leg of HS2 between Birmingham and Manchester but has vowed to take the rail link into a terminus at Euston
HTA gets the go-ahead for Enfield social housing at second attempt
HTA Design has won planning consent at the second attempt for a 100-unit social housing development in east London
Spheron founder unveils plans for ‘Emotionalist’ retrofit of Taiwan hotel
Spheron founder Tszwai So has unveiled plans to retrofit a 1970s hotel building in Taiwan
Five takeaways from AJ Retrofit Live: ‘Net zero is here to stay’
‘There is plenty of reason for optimism’, said AJ editor Emily Booth at the start of Retrofit Live, held in the City of London yesterday (27 September)