Some thoughts on a “brownfield passport” and the potential for corner plots to rapidly deliver suburban intensification.
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Right on Target
Why concerns about the effect of the new government’s housing targets on the countryside are misplaced When the new Labour government’s proposed housing targets were published in July there was some surprise that many planning authorities, particularly urban ones, had seen a significant reduction in the number of homes they were being expected to deliver, […]
A few years ago I took it upon myself to submit a supporting comment on Transport for London’s plans to build new homes on the car park at Cockfosters station. Although it’s just across the borough boundary in Enfield, it’s only a few hundred metres from where I live in New Barnet, and the application […]
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Towards a Suburban Renaissance
How lessons from Croydon can be applied to London’s suburbs to deliver thousands of new homes through modest intensification. “Boroughs should…recognise in their Development Plans and planning decisions that local character evolves over time and will need to change in appropriate locations to accommodate additional housing provision and increases in residential density through small housing […]
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Small Sites, Big Ambitions
How suburban intensification can deliver new homes, quickly, while driving growth in local economies.
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Procurement Using 50% Scoring Ratio
This describes a typical limited tender process using standard methods of price / quality measurement, with a pricing ratio set at 50%. It demonstrates that this scoring ratio will almost certainly result in the cheapest price winning the project, even with a very low quality score. The sample scores used to test this model is […]