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How red tape is blocking 320,000 new London homes

Challenge of extending properties is holding back the creation of extra dwellings during a housing shortage, London Assembly warned

Evening Standard · Jul 15

OPINION - Let's be honest, London is no longer beautiful

If I had a pound for every developer, designer or official who told me that a bridge, office, home or factory must be ugly because it’s “all we can afford”, reader, I would be a rich man. But what they tell you is a lie: ugliness is always a choice.

Evening Standard · Aug 13, 2025

England’s new towns must be walkable and green, say campaigners

Thinktank founder says recent attempts to build new towns are ‘depressing, unsustainable and stupid’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2024

General election: Labour pledges 'Freedom to Buy' mortgage guarantee scheme — but will it work in London?

Extending the mortgage guarantee scheme and taxing foreign property investors to pay planning officers are part of pre-election promises

Evening Standard · Jun 7, 2024

Is Kent ready for the Duchy of Cornwall’s next Poundbury?

Plans for 2,500 new homes outside the historic market town of Faversham have gone down badly with some residents. But the UK needs housing, and this is a promising site…

The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2024

Call for UK utility firms to face higher fines for ‘street scars’ on pavements

Government adviser says water and telecoms privatisation is to blame for disfiguring streets with tarmac

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024

Give Britons the right to plant to green up public spaces, Gove adviser says

Thinktank Create Streets calls for people to be allowed to grow plants and trees in barren urban areas

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2023

‘Tame’ wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank

Exclusive: Create Streets proposes building on Britain’s ‘road belt’ rather than its green belt amid housing crisis

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2023

King Charles ignited a battle of styles in architecture - is it time for a truce?

The monarch loves traditional buildings and hates a lot of modern design. In this long-running battle, is there any middle ground?

The Guardian - UK · May 8, 2023

Michael Gove thinks beautiful buildings must look traditional. Here’s why he’s wrong…

A dynamic fusion of ‘gentle density’ housing in green belt Croydon is the latest example of thoughtful, visionary housing design the government would do well to learn from

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2023