Maybe not

504 homes proposed for Harrow supermarket

🎯Contributes 69% of Harrow’s yearly housing target

🛒 32% ⬇️ of customer car parking

🏠 35% affordable including 115 for social rent

🏢 Tallest tower changed from pink to brown following public backlash

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Tell him what you think.
Take his survey!

Derelict Harrow hotel to be demolished and replaced with 22 flats 👍 harrowonline.org/2024/04/16/der…

The unseen damage that London's (ever-growing) Conservation Areas do to our housing supply/costs, high-street viability, walkability and wider environment is incalculable.

London has regained the dubious distinction of being the most expensive city in the world in which to build.
constructionenquirer.com/2024/04/16/lon…

Just let these figures sink in #hsa24

Must-read thread 👇

This is what happens when the planning process puts each and every development up for debate.

Of course we need to bring more empty homes back into use and significantly increase the number of affordable homes built each year but there is no way to meet housing need across the country without ramping up overall housing supply and it’s disingenuous to pretend otherwise.

Your occasional reminder that the big pillars at South Kensington tube station aren't holding up the roof - they're the supports for a 1970s hotel that was planned to go above the station.

'Planners have given the thumbs up to a scheme to build 285 flats in blocks next to protected wharves near Wandsworth Bridge'
constructionenquirer.com/2024/04/12/220…

'University housing provider Unite has received the green light for a 41-storey student skyscraper in Stratford, among the tallest buildings of its kind in the world, as providers seek to build up to solve the capital’s shortage of dedicated student digs.'
standard.co.uk/business/stude…

Plans for 547 new homes on the former News International printworks site in east London have won the backing of Tower Hamlets councillors. bdonline.co.uk/news/patel-tay…

A great piece of work from Russell Curtis on a how we can create more homes in London. Even if you are not a housing expert, please read - he makes it easy to understand and relatively jargon free, so fear not. London Society

All hail the ‘mimbys’: the open-minded voters who might just save Labour’s housing plans | gabyhinsliff

'With millennials now a political force, Starmer should embrace the grey belt and commit to building houses, because that builds hope' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

New: Yet another substantial Greenwich development proposal submitted.

fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2024/04/04/gre…

Tops out at 26 floors and includes 340 student rooms plus 362 flats. Not a Knight Dragon plot.

'Housing is expected to be central to its manifesto and policies will seek to attract affluent first-time buyers and those on lower incomes wanting improves access to social homes.'

More remarkable mid-rise brick housing in Iran

Roshan Residential Building 3, by Hussein Yazdi and Massoud Abedi

Labour is trying to drive a wedge between its policies on development and that of the Conservatives in the run-up to the general election thetimes.co.uk/article/yes-in…

Yeah this is extremely true. The UK housing crisis is severely worse than the US, with London having lower wages and comparable housing prices to San Francisco while simultaneously building *less* housing.