Tom Lowe
NewsPlans approved for 300-home scheme in Ealing
Ealing Council’s £125m Gurnell development will include eight main housing blocks rising to a maximum of ten storeys,
NewsRIBA calls for ‘consequential improvements’ in existing single staircase towers
Institute wants more stringent safety regulations in non-residential buildings in its full response to Grenfell Inquiry report
NewsPersimmon spent £60m on building safety remediation last year
Housebuilder has now spent £120m on safety works with 30% of remediation jobs still yet to start
NewsGreenwich scheme handed demolition order can stay with design changes, Planning Inspectorate rules
Developer Comer Homes has three years to remove orange cladding and must pay nearly £7m to council
NewsDeveloper switches Canada Water scheme to housing as London office market slumps
Plans for 26-storey tower and neighbouring block altered
NewsPlans for 44-storey Manchester tower sent in to city council
Latest addition to city’s high-rise cluster would include 364 homes
NewsHeight of planned Battersea tower reduced by five storeys as 1,500 objections hit scheme
Second height reduction takes scheme down to 28 storeys and removes 60 homes compared to original proposal
NewsStarmer defends ‘too ambitious’ 1.5m homes target
Prime minister re-commits to housebuilding target in set piece speech, saying ‘brave’ action is necessary to drive bold action
NewsGreen light for 7,000-home Edinburgh city extension
Local developer Drum Property Group’s £2bn scheme granted unanimous approval by council
NewsMount Anvil seeks to double size of Camden estate regeneration sceheme
Housebuilder to triple size of towers as it replaces lead architect Karakusevic Carson with Pollard Thomas Edwards.
NewsScheme to turn 1980s Southwark office block into student homes gets green light
Job also includes building new community kitchen
NewsHousing design advisory body Office for Place to be shut down, Pennycook announces
Interim chair Nicholas Boys Smith said move to scrap body risks ministers “marking their own homework” on housing design
NewsDecision on Woolwich towers scheme demolition order expected by end of next month
Comer Homes’ 200-home site in Woolwich was handed enforcement notice last year after breaching planning permission
NewsEstate agency founder Kevin Hollinrake appointed shadow housing secretary
Hollinrake has previously criticised Labour’s plans to scrap ‘no fault evictions’
NewsPlans submitted for 1,200-home Birmingham tower scheme
Simpson Haugh-designed scheme to include buildings up to 49 storeys
NewsPlans submitted for residential towers next to Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium
850-home scheme to include blocks up to 25 storeys
NewsSutton council picks development partner for 740-home town centre regeneration
Several sites to be redeveloped in second phase of project
NewsRayner to be handed nearly £1bn to fund affordable housing drive, according to reports
Housing secretary said to have secured downpayment for multi-year plan to double affordable house building rates
NewsGreen light for 600-home Wembley scheme
Four blocks up to 16 storeys to be built north of Wembley stadium