Chelgate Local is hosting a Breakfast Briefing on the impact of air rights and upward development in solving London’s housing issues   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 are hosting a breakfast briefing seminar on whether air rights and upward development will help solve London’s housing crisis. Greater densities is a more efficient use of the land available and is being pushed by the Mayor, but is this practical and is it the answer? Hear the views […]

Marching into Spring: Rosewell Review, focus on micro-homes, Housing Delivery Test, and importance of infrastructure   Rosewell ‘appeals’ for quicker decisions 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 process could be “slashed” from 47 weeks to around 26 weeks. She found that “outdated administrative processes and poor IT infrastructure were unnecessarily holding up cases”, and “a lack of suitably qualified inspectors was also hampering efforts to set […]