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 …

By Michael Hardware, Director of Planning and Property, Chelgate Local Michael is also an Essex County and Harlow District councillor, vice-chairman of the county Development and Regulation Committee and sits on the district Development Management Committee. Quality design in all …

By Kasia Banas, Consultant The time taken to determine planning appeals could be cut by almost half, a Government-commissioned review has found. In the report published on 12 February 2019, Bridget Rosewell CBE concluded that the average duration of the …

2019 picks up speed: Land values languish, key infrastructure projects, jobs boom but young suffer, and breakfast briefing recap Three key infrastructure projects to watch in 2019 Ahead of Chelgate’s Breakfast Briefing on ‘Infrastructure-led Growth’ , we take a look …

By Kasia Banas, Consultant January saw Chelgate Local kick off 2019 with another successful breakfast briefing event. The Chelgate team partnered up with Barton Willmore to host a timely discussion on the impact of an ageing population on housing provision. …

By Kasia Banas, Consultant Britain is seeing unprecedented jobs and employment growth despite an ageing population and increased health problems, a new report has shown. Resolution Foundation started the year with launch of ‘Setting the record straight’ – its latest …

By Daniel Fryd, Account Director Ahead of Chelgate’s Breakfast Briefing on ‘Infrastructure-led Growth’ on 6th March, we take a look at three of the key infrastructure projects set to drive growth and change the shape of the country No earth …