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When it comes to housing, London is another country. It needs its own policies
As a crucial spending review approaches and a new London Plan reaches draft stage, policy makers need to realise that trying to soften prices with new…
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Yes, the Building Safety Regulator is disrupting the design and build model. That was the point
No one would deny there have been serious problems with the BSR - but too many of its critics miss the mark. Plus - a reply from the machine
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Lessons from the Kiziak saga; the accountability gap and fears about AI
A three-handed post this week meanders from EWS1 forms, to failures to prosecute dangerous fires, to the looming destruction of creativity by the…
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In defence of 'anti-supply measures'
If the 1.5m homes will be tiny, hot, single-exit, non-compliant and bad for nature, then what will we have actually achieved?
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The Trespa files
Trespa's combustible HPL material, used to make the window panels on Lakanal House, is being removed from hundreds of blocks around the country. How was…
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The door to Flat 136
In the final summary piece of our journey through the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, let's consider the story of one fire door on the 16th floor.
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On ne peut pas construire de logements sociaux sans subventions: lessons from France
Some reflections from the window seat in a TGV, plus a salutary warning on equity investment in social housing and a report into last year's Dagenham…
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