Rushabhsatra·Jan 15PlanningPass: Turning UK Planning Uncertainty into a 60-Second AnswerUK homeowners waste weeks (and thousands of pounds) trying to answer one question: “Do I need planning permission?”
Barker0nline·Oct 19, 2025The Planning and Infrastructure Bill: Britain’s Last Chance to Build AgainEvery few decades, Britain gets a chance to fix the machine that builds the country.
InILLUMINATIONbyEdward Vale·Jul 17, 2025Top-Down Power, Bottom-Up Pain: How Central Control is Killing Local Communities — and Threatening…When I was a child growing up in rural Surrey, I could never imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to preserve the wondrous landscapes of…
Samir Varma·Jun 16, 2025Why We Can’t Build: Lessons from Britain’s Planning System DisasterWhy We Can’t Build: Lessons from Britain’s Planning System Disaster
Ciarán Mather - Journalist·Feb 3, 2025Sensory garden and other changes may be on the way for special school in County KildareThe school has its origins in Newbridge
Smart Thinking·Jun 6, 2024A quick (UK) guide to extending your home — Planning Permission and Building RegulationsI’m a Chartered Architectural Technologist — which is kind of half of an Architect.
Extension Architecture·Feb 28, 2024Integrating Nature with Urban Development for Wholesome LivingExtension Architecture specializes in blending nature with urban development, fostering wholesome living by designing green spaces…
Tom Howard·Jan 18, 2024National Planning Policy Boost for Self Build on Small Sites — Dec 2023Now I suspect that in the run up to Christmas, amidst all the frantic festivities, not all of you may have spotted that Michael Gove…
Claire Cardwell·Nov 6, 2023Why it’s Never a Good Idea to Build Without Plans or Planning Permission…I often get asked to update plans with additions that have been made in the past. To make the ‘As Built’ / Illegal Structures legal…
Tom Howard·Jul 21, 2023Affordable Land for Self-Building… and how to make it happenImagine a world where it is completely normal and achievable to build your first home. Having spent endless hours browsing the web…
