Real Estate Development Notes

Build in breach of restrictive covenants at your peril!

Changes to the current planning system - First Homes

Supreme Court's input required on dealing with restrictive covenants

Ring in the new? - planning update

Agreements with Registered Providers: 5 Top Tips

Real Estate EP5: The future of planning - Matthew White and Ghislaine Halpenny in conversation

Affordability, viability and clarity – the impact of valuation on supply of affordable housing

Viability is at the heart of the extent to which private developers can be expected to bridge the gap between demand for and supply of affordable …

Affordable Housing Back to Basics: What do the new NPPF and Draft London Plan modifications mean for affordable housing?

This blog post explores how the meaning of affordable housing has evolved following the publication of the revised National Planning Policy Framework …

EGi: What's so unlawful about London's affordable housing policy?

The High Court has declared a key policy in the mayor of London’s planning guidance on affordable housing ‘unlawful’ – but what does that mean in …

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 …

A five step guide to calculating the level of affordable housing the Mayor considers viable

In this blog post, we explain in simple terms how a developer is now expected to set the level of affordable housing which the Mayor of London deems …

Affordable Housing: Back to Basics

This post has been superseded by a new post assessing affordable housing under the revised National Planning Policy Framework …