Piers Wehner

Planning and Housing minister Lord Falconer has told delegates that the planning system will be changed to ensure that developers make bigger contributions to affordable housing.

US fund manager Fidelity Investments is pressing ahead with plans for 75,000 sq m (807,320 sq ft) of speculative offices in London’s Docklands.

The government is threatening to send in external consultants to shake up Englands worst planning authorities. The DTLR issued the warning in letters this week to the London borough of…

The Government’s architecture watchdog has questioned the need for a tower as the centrepiece of Railtrack Property’s designs for Paddington Station.

Arsenal FC’s revised plans for a 60,000-seater stadium at Ashburton Grove have scored highly with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

Lingfield Investments is to put £120m into a seven-year redevelopment of an industrial park in Darlington. The 150,000 sq m (1.6m sq ft) site at the former wool factory at…

Former conservative Environment Secretary Lord Jenkin today attacked government proposals for business improvement districts (BIDS). At a conference on the future of the US-inspired initiative, which encourages landlords and tenants…

A scheme set up to tackle “cowboy” letting agents is to expand its membership following a £400,000 injection of Government cash.

Last week’s terrorist attacks on the US will make an economic recovery unlikely and will continue to stifle UK commercial rental growth, according to a report published by the RICS…