South East
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Protestors try to stop bypasses
Environmental groups and transport campaigners will try to block government plans to spend up to £1bn next year on roadworks and new bypasses.
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Housing targets cut
The government will announce on Thursday it is slashing its annual South East housebuilding targets from 43,000 to nearer 33,000. The 15-year housing plan will be put on hold and…
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Appeal judges rule in water supply dispute
Thames Water Utilities Ltd (TWU) has won the right to charge for water supplied to houses built on land formerly belonging to the West Wycombe Estate in Buckinghamshire.
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Architect sues Brunei prince
Prince Jefri Bolkiah, brother of the world’s richest man, the Sultan of Brunei, is being sued for more than £88,000 by architect Philip Dinkel and a company called Prodawn.
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Curtain set to rise on MEPC film plans
MEPC is planning one of the UKs first film and media clusters. The developer has submitted an application for a £500m scheme at its Leavesden Park development near Watford.
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Planning dispute over gypsy caravans
Basildon District Council have launched a High Court challenge to a decision by the Environment Secretary to allow three gypsy caravans to remain on green belt land against a planing…
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Taylor Woodrow/Belvedere win £26m office scheme consent
Taylor Woodrow Property (TWP) and local developer Belvedere Smith have won planning consent for a £26m office project at London Road in Camberley, Surrey.
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Residents win latest round of dispute over airfield
A group of Surrey villagers have succeeded in overturning a decision of Waverley council that paved the way for the redevelopment of Dunsfold Airfield.
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Council go-ahead for Hants greenfield new town
Eastleigh council has approved controversial plans to build a new town on a 253ha (625 acre) site in Hampshire. Earlier this week councillors backed the first deposit draft of a…
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BA abandons Gatwick hub dream
British Airways has finally abandoned plans to use Gatwick as a secondary hub to Heathrow. Airport capacity is likely to be used up within 10 years.
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Boots seeks £1m lease at Brent Cross
Boots the Chemist is taking Hammerson UK Properties to court for a new tenancy of shop premises at Brent Cross Shopping Centre in Hendon.
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Great Bentley named GB Village of the Year
Great Bentley, near Colchester, Essex, has been named Great Britain Village of the Year in a competition sponsored by The Daily Telegraph and Calor Gas.