Places

Get updates from The Developer straight to your inbox Yes, please!

the developer

Biodiversity net gain: “Developers can no longer get away with sticking trees in concrete”

The government’s paper on biodiversity net gain, published in July, places greater onus on developers to restore the environment. Anna White reports

First speakers announced for The Developer Live: Risk & Resilience

Speakers from Grosvenor, Berkeley Group, Defra and Natural England confirmed for The Developer’s conference on biodiversity net gain, SuDS, fire and resilience

Dan Labbad on developers: “You've got to be humble”

Dan Labbad, chief executive of Lendlease Europe and future CEO of the Crown Estate, tells The Developer what he has learned from 20 years at the frontline of urban regeneration

If young people can’t afford to move to UK cities for work, that’s a health issue

When we think housing, we must think health. This is vital for the next generation, writes Jo Bibby, director of health at the Health Foundation

It should be a no-brainer, so why aren’t we building more Passivhaus?

Nearly a decade ago, the adoption of Passivhaus seemed inevitable. What happened? And with looming net zero targets, will the government make the standard mandatory now? James Wilmore reports

The race is on: Why northern cities are battling to front the cycling and walking peloton

What’s behind this desire to turn Sheffield, Liverpool and Manchester into Amsterdam-style cycling paradises? Will it work? And what could it mean for city developers? James Wilmore reports

Why ‘dangerous’ office-to-residential permitted development rights must stop

Levitt Bernstein has launched an online petition to end permitted development rights for office-to-residential conversions. Julia Park explains why this “dangerous policy” has to go, in this excerpt from her report

Huge change is coming to Old Kent Road: how will it cope?

High-rise regeneration proposed by Southwark Council is coming to this low-rise neighbourhood. Jessica Cargill Thompson reports, with photography by John Sturrock

Demolition would have been “a complete waste of time, energy, money and carbon”

Christine Murray hears how Helical and AHMM transformed an unloved and badly managed British Telecom office complex on Old Street Roundabout into a place

Contact us
Media pack
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy

Twitter
Instagram

Sign up to our newsletter

Get updates from The Developer straight to your inbox