It’s too difficult to build one-off homes in urban areas. A new category of planning application is needed to lower the barriers for single family houses.
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Growing Pains
Building homes on London’s allotments isn’t going to solve the housing crisis. The capital’s comedic carrots and amusing marrows are safe, for now.
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London, Open
How updates to the London Plan might enable new homes to be built on London’s golf courses.
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Balancing the Books
How the use of quadratic voting could help moderate the public’s attitude towards planning applications for new homes.
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Housing Delivery Test 2023
A brief analysis of the Housing Delivery Test scores from 2023, which were published in December.
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Get on board
The potential for 27,000 homes around existing stations between London and Cambridge: Submission to the New Towns Taskforce, November 2024.
Using AI and high-resolution aerial photography to categorise types of land cover within the metropolitan green belt.
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Cornering the Market
Some thoughts on a “brownfield passport” and the potential for corner plots to rapidly deliver suburban intensification.
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Right on Target
Why concerns about the effect of the new government’s housing targets on the countryside are misplaced
How planning authorities’ online portals demonstrate bias against new development.
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Towards a Suburban Renaissance
How lessons from Croydon can be applied to London’s suburbs to deliver thousands of new homes through modest intensification.
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Procurement Using 50% Scoring Ratio
This describes a typical limited tender process using standard methods of price / quality measurement, with a pricing ratio set at 50%. It demonstrates that this scoring ratio will almost certainly result in the cheapest price winning the project, even with a very low quality score. The sample scores used to test this model is […]