Local councils are failing to address the housing shortage according to a new survey which found that an overwhelming 90% of the UK public is losing faith in local planning processes.

Matt Clarke, Director at Boyer, looks at the process of developing a new community, pin-pointing sites that could be successfully promoted and developed as new settlements or strategic...

Simon Atha, Director at Boyer, looks at listed building consent and reveals that despite common misconceptions surrounding the complexity of the process, it's not really the...

David Alcock, MD at Blend, looks at the government’s current approach to housing and how this is impacting SME housebuilders.

Grant Leggett, Executive Director, Boyer, looks at how housing developers are likely to be impacted by amendments made to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.

Daniel Nunn, Senior Planner at Boyer, looks at the idea of ‘living locally’ and if this actually increases social issues such as isolation.

Zoe Curran, planner at Boyer, looks at how planning fits into the puzzle of solving the UK's later life living crisis.

The British Property Federation has urged the government to abandon its plans for a new infrastructure levy as they will do little to alleviate existing difficulties.

Labour leader, Keir Starmer, plans to overhaul planning rules if Labour wins next year's general election, including reviewing green belt restrictions.

The latest analysis from Searchland looked at historic data on the number of approved, rejected and pending residential planning applications between 2002 and 2022 and how the number...