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Mikhail Riches and GT3 Architects have unveiled revamped designs for the leisure centre at the heart of a major Ealing Council housing development
Mikhail Riches and GT3 reveal new designs for Ealing leisure centre
EPR’s rejected Brighton Gasworks plans head to appeal
EPR Architects’ £280 million Brighton Gasworks development is to go to appeal after the local authority rejected its planning application for 495 homes
UCL study highlights unhealthy impacts of permitted development homes
Thousands of homes built under office-to-residential permitted development rights could be harmful to the health of their occupants, an exploratory study by the Bartlett School of Planning has indicated
Rethinking the country house clause: is para 134 architects’ new ally?
Could Paragraph 134 of the National Planning Policy Framework replace the country house clause as a more reliable way of getting rural one-off houses through planning? Keith Cooper reports
Affordable homes slashed from Brent tower amid second staircase demand
Brent Council has approved a £300 million Patel Taylor development after its affordable housing provision was slashed to pay for second staircases in the two tallest towers
Concrete crisis: RAAC, Siporex and the architects who loved them
Who were the architects who specified such widespread use of unsafe products such as reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in public buildings? Keith Cooper investigates
Govt’s ‘haphazard’ approach fails both housing and environment, says Lords report
House-building targets should be put on an equal footing to environmental goals, a House of Lords committee has urged in the week the prime minister diluted green targets