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Affordable housing viability calculations: Herbert Smith Freehills workshops on Mayor's new guidance
Herbert Smith Freehills are running workshops for property developers on housing and viability, with a focus on London and interpreting the Mayor's …
What impact do overseas investors have on housing supply?
Planning Resource has published an on-line article by Matthew White, Head of Planning, London, discussing the conclusions of the May 2017 report by …
An unusual consequence of the housing crisis – or, when is it against public policy to enforce a hospice's privacy?
Author: Jerome Temme, Trainee, Real Estate Dispute Resolution, London Take a hospice, a restrictive covenant preventing development next door which, at …
Time to respond to the Housing White Paper
Author: Matthew White, Partner and Head of Planning, London There is just over one month left to submit responses to the Government's Housing …
Comfort and joy
Author: Alex Rhodes, Senior Associate, Planning, London While this may feel like yet another winter with warmer than usual temperatures, the harsh …
The return of "Vacant Building Credit"
Authors: Matthew White, Partner and Head of Planning, London and Lucy Morton, Professional Support Lawyer, Planning, London The world of planning has …
Review of unviable affordable housing obligations to cease on 30 April 2016
Author: Matthew White, Partner and Head of Planning, London Developers with planning permission for residential development can currently apply to …
Q1 Healthcheck / Q2 Predictions: Brexit, Mayor, PRS, Housing and Planning Bill, airport expansion
Author: Matthew White, Partner and Head of Planning, Real Estate, London In the week before Christmas, the daffodils were blooming, the birds were …
Planning Update: office to residential conversion rights made permanent, Mayor's advice to local authorities on avoiding these rights, Mayor's viability disclosure requirements, and CIL and mezzanine floors
Authors: Matthew White, Partner and Head of Planning, and Lucy Morton, Professional Support Lawyer, Planning, London Today's post is a planning update, …
How to solve a housing crisis: commercial viability, land value and affordable housing
Author: Martyn Jarvis, Associate, Planning, Real Estate, London The UK is facing a housing crisis, most pronounced in London, and this is set to be a …
What to look forward to in 2016: Planning changes on the horizon
Herbert Smith Freehills' real estate development team are monitoring a number of areas of law likely to change during 2016. Here is a summary …