Real Estate Development Notes
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Closing the "viability loophole"? A return for the developer must be taken into account when setting local plans
The Government is recommending that viability is assessed in detail by the local authority at the stage of setting its development plan and allocating …
Reasons to be cheerful
It is good practice for a local planning authority to give reasons for the grant of planning permission. Failure to give adequate reasons may be serious …
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 …
Residential leasehold - time for change?
At the end of July, hard on the heels of the Housing White Paper published in February, DCLG issued a Consultation Paper on "Tackling unfair practices in …
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 …
On Election Day
Author: Matthew White, Partner and Head of UK Planning, London I'm sure I am not alone in finding it difficult to be enthusiastic about today's general …
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 …
Sky's the limit?
Author: Helena Thompson, Associate, Planning and Environment, London Almost a month on, we have now all had a chance to consider what the Housing …
Two Planning articles: will Sadiq Khan's "first dibs for Londoners" work? And should planning officers take the final decision on planning applications?
Author: Matthew White, Partner and Head of Planning, Real Estate, London Matthew White, Partner and Head of Planning in the London team at Herbert Smith …
Office to residential conversion rights to be made permanent
On the same day as announcing the Housing and Planning Bill (13 October 2015), the Department for Communities and Local Government confirmed that the …
Housing and Planning Bill announced
Yesterday (13 October 2015) the Housing and Planning Bill was published, proposing new planning legislation including requirements for starter homes in …