The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Design issue stalls hospital building programme
A lack of progress on a ‘template’ to standardise hospital design across England is delaying the government’s hospital building programme, a report has found
Planning
News about the planning system in the UK, including permitted development rights, the National Planning Policy Framework, the London Plan and the ‘country house’ clause
M&S Oxford St is about embodied memory as well as embodied carbon
As Michael Gove prepares to announce his verdict on the proposed demolition of M&S Marble Arch, let’s hope he has considered our memories and understanding of the place we know as Oxford Street, writes Simon Henley
Footballer-turned-developer Gary Neville calls for housebuilding subsidies
England footballer-turned-developer Gary Neville has urged ministers to subsidise the building of affordable homes in city centres and warned that high interest rates will lead to projects being shelved
Design codes not a straitjacket, says government architect
Government architect Sarah Allan has said at an AJ100 event that new design codes now being drawn up will not necessarily hamper the profession
Bristol Council in shock U-turn over Keep Architecture’s controversial housing
Bristol City Council has overturned its own decision to refuse a Keep Architecture-designed housing scheme, approving the proposals just five weeks after initially refusing them
Pooja Agrawal: ‘I’m driven by making places that are equitable and vibrant’
The winner of this year’s AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award speaks to Flora Neville about Public Practice, the groundbreaking initiative she co-founded, which is raising the game of local authority placemaking
Councils are sitting on ‘enough empty property for 19,500 affordable homes’
Local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales are sitting on enough empty commercial property to create more than 19,500 homes, according to estimates by not-for-profit organisation Habitat for Humanity Great Britain
Sadiq Khan should be bold. He should rethink the green belt
The London mayor should point out that the green belt is an anachronism and that a million homes could be built by sacrificing just 1 per cent of it, says Russell Curtis
City of London to restrict new towers to specific sites
Tall buildings could be limited to certain areas within the Square Mile if proposed changes to the City of London’s planning policy go forward
The UK’s first women-only tower block is a desperate measure for desperate times
The design of the newly-approved Brook House in Acton is the same failing housing product, repackaged in pink, writes Marianna Janowicz