Piers Wehner

The Government has attempted to soothe the fears of conservationists by promising that major projects will not be forced through parliament on a whipped vote.

Business In Sport & Leisure (BISL) has called for a significant increase in the funding and resources of local authority planning departments.

Plans for a light railway link between London City Airport and the Square Mile have been given the green light by DTLR Secretary Stephen Byers.

The RICS has condemned the government’s proposals to introduce national planning tariffs to replace section 106 agreements. In its official response to the government’s planning green paper, which closed for…

Publicly funded regeneration projects have been a great success in the capital but there is still room for improvement, according to a Greater London Assembly report.

Helical Bar has announced a special dividend to shareholders of £30m, following a string of highly profitable deals. The dividend will mean that chief executive Mike Slade (pictured) will receive…

Commercial property is benefiting from the volatile stock market, according to a poll of agents. A National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) poll shows that agents are highly optimistic about…

The Berkeley Group’s Tony Pidgley (pictured) has slammed the governments proposed changes to the planning system for making “swingeing and unnecessary changes while failing to tackle the real issues”.

Prime rental values in London’s Mayfair and St James’s have fallen by almost a quarter over the past year. Research by Cluttons shows that values have tumbled from a high…

The Conservatives have vowed to block changes to the planning system, saying that the Government’s proposed reforms are “bad for business, bad for democracy and bad for the environment”.

Digby Jones, the director-general of the CBI, has lashed out at Government proposals to replace planning gain with a “development tax”.