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Going Solo

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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Cornering the Market

Some thoughts on a “brownfield passport” and the potential for corner plots to rapidly deliver suburban intensification.

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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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Small Sites, Big Ambitions

How suburban intensification can quickly deliver new homes.

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Housing development in London has a new weapon: AI

Data from an AI learning model that mapped the London Borough of Lewisham suggests the capital’s targets for ‘small site’ development could be radically increased.

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Croydon’s Conservative Mayor has put suburban resistance before home building

In tearing up the council’s innovative design guide for development at its fringes, Jason Perry has prevented the benign construction of urgently needed housing in his borough

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The removal of the small sites policy from Sadiq Khan’s London Plan is a betrayal

Placing requirements on suburban boroughs to do more to help meet the capital’s housing needs could have made a huge difference.