By Kasia Banas, Consultant While mostly overshadowed by the Brexit debates and votes, this year’s Spring Statement included a number of important housing announcements. The new package is part of government’s wider strategy to deliver 300,000 a year by the …

By Vivienne Shirley, Senior Consultant Only five of London’s 33 boroughs met their targets for housing need during 2017-18, with twenty delivering less than half, according to Knight Frank’s latest London Residential Development Report. Whilst Mayor Sadiq Khan set the …

By Vivienne Shirley, Senior Consultant Chelgate attended the latest annual planning update by Cambridge University Land Society, promising an afternoon of timely topics and high-profile speakers. The event kicked off with a keynote by Simon Gallagher, Director of Planning at …

By Michael Hardware, Director of Planning and Property In our last newsletter we talked about the Housing Delivery Test and the 100 or so local authorities which failed it. The test looked at housing need and housing delivery over the …

Hear the latest views from the sector on whether air rights and upward development can be the answer to London’s housing crisis. Chelgate Local and DLP Planning would like to invite you to a breakfast briefing seminar on whether air rights …

Marching into Spring: Rosewell Review, focus on micro-homes, Housing Delivery Test, and importance of infrastructure Rosewell ‘appeals’ for quicker decisions Time to determine planning appeals could be cut almost by half, a Government-commissioned review has found… Read more Micro-housing under the …

By Vivienne Shirley, Senior Consultant As Londoners spend almost a third of income on rent, and the number of homeowners under 45 falls by almost a million from 2010 to 2016, is it time to look at micro-homes? The housing …

By Daniel Fryd, Senior Consultant The results of the first MHCLG Housing Delivery Test – long touted as the mechanism that would hold councils to account for their failure to build new homes – were finally revealed in February. Over …