4th April 20224th April 2022Latest News, News Nutrient Neutral and the slow death of Housebuilding In 2020 I did an Anti-Guru vlog which you can see here: Within the vlog I raised the simple premise, that was […] Read more
22nd February 202222nd February 2022Views The State of Planning in the UK I have just recorded a podcast for a good property entrepreneur friend of mine, Dave Hartnet of Mountbatten Estates, and one thing […] Read more
17th January 202217th January 2022Latest News The HDT – Marking the Council’s Homework! January, in the planning world at least, brings with it the grading of council performance known as the Housing Delivery Test. The […] Read more
7th October 20217th October 2021Latest News, Opinion Goodbye Class G – Hello Super G….but there is a catch! – Updated October 2021 The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (snappy title!) was laid before parliament on […] Read more
31st August 202131st August 2021Opinion Are HMO’s now supported within the National Framework? Back in 2012 the NPPF included an important paragraph. To deliver a wide choice of high quality homes, widen opportunities for homeownership […] Read more
24th June 2021Opinion Decision Making Behaviour It is fair to say that planning authorities in England have their favourite forms of development and in equal measure those developments […] Read more
16th June 2021News, Opinion Class MA – Thoughts on the Starting Line! On the 1st August 2021 the starting gun is fired and Class MA becomes available to applicants as an application type. Class […] Read more
11th June 202111th June 2021Latest News Natural England approach to nitrates upheld The case of THE QUEEN (on the application of RONALD WYATT, CHAIRPERSON OF BROOK AVENUE RESIDENTS AGAINST DEVELOPMENT (BARAD), ACTING IN A […] Read more
10th June 202110th June 2021News, Opinion Milton Keynes cannot keep up….apparently So the story goes like this. Four applications for prior approval were submitted on the same day on the same site and […] Read more