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Plans for 150,000 homes but no water to supply them. Does Gove’s vision for Cambridge stand a chance?

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The housing secretary wants to build nearly three times as many homes as the target set by Cambridge’s own planners. Is there something he knows that they don’t? Daniel Gayne reports

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Mayfair rebuild scheme set for refusal as Westminster targets net zero plan

But Foster & Partners’ proposed retrofit of nearby department store site handed recommendation for approval ahead of next week’s planning meeting

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‘Recession is a change agent’: Why Gensler is launching itself into the UK housing market

In the second of our interviews with senior Gensler executives, global co-chief executive Julia Simet and co-managing principal for Europe Duncan Swinhoe talk to Tom Lowe about turning towards office-to-residential conversions, how the UK planning system needs to change and why the world’s biggest practice doesn’t have targets

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Even a shopping centre can have emotional resonance - and that value is hard to quantify

2024-03-27T00:05:00+00:00By 2 comments

When visitors start scattering their loved ones’ ashes, you know you’ve developed a precious connection to place, writes Martyn Evans

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The procurement system is crushing smaller businesses - it needs reform

2024-03-25T00:05:00+00:00By 3 comments

Our public procurement processes are not serving the best interests of consultants or the end users, writes David Rudlin

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Why the British neighbourhood pub must be saved: A Canadian perspective

2024-03-22T00:10:00+00:00By

With British pubs in decline, Dorian Moore asks whether their role as ‘third spaces’ could help save them

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Does the US approach to planning mean architects get more respect in America?

2024-03-21T06:00:00+00:00By 2 comments

In his first column for BD, New York-based Chris Fogarty assesses the relative merits of the US and UK planning systems

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Chasing housing targets, cash-strapped Birmingham risks destroying its cultural soul

2024-03-18T00:05:00+00:00By

Birmingham is the canary in the coal mine, showing us how financially stricken local authorities are increasingly sacrificing cultural assets in pursuit of investment, writes Simeon Shtebunaev

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Architects must recognise the power of social media in creating a sense of place

2024-03-15T00:05:00+00:00By 2 comments

The creation of ‘Instagrammable’ locations can play an important part in helping to revive struggling places, writes Trevor Morriss

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