Piers Wehner

The end-vote was conclusive. A sea of green cards at last Thursday’s London Development Conference supported Mayor Ken Livingstone’s vision of the capital’s development.

The RICS is putting pressure on property companies to increase the number of women in the industry. At a meeting of property and construction groups this week, organised by the…

Westminster council has been given five times more money than the City Corporation to improve its planning system. The West End council was allocated £474,679 of the government’s £50m package…

The government is to give a minimum of £75,000 to every planning authority in the country in a bid to stem the critical underfunding of the planning system.

Half of all property experts polled believe that homes on the fringes of the London congestion-charging zone are at risk of dropping in value.

Only 16% of planning authorities believe that they will be able to cope with the additional work created by the government’s Planning and Compulsory Purchases Bill.

The Prince of Wales’ Phoenix Trust has asked architect John McAslan & Partners to look into possible uses for a derelict sugar warehouse in Greenock in Scotland.

Cluttons has hired the residential valuation and development team that quit struggling agency Chesterton last month. The move, revealed by EG (27 January, p29), will see the group join Cluttons…

Henderson Global Investors’ fund TR Property has been given the go-ahead for a £15m mixed-use scheme on Battersea Park Road, SW11.

Urban planning architect Sir Terry Farrell has detailed plans to turn London’s notorious Euston Road into a boulevard to rival Paris’s Champs Elysees.

Plans for an 800,000 sq ft redevelopment next to Birmingham’s Snow Hill station have been approved by Birmingham city council. The site is one of seven sold by Hammerson to…