Research
We publish what we find.
Partly because it is the only honest way to claim an edge in research. Partly because most of these questions get asked of us more than once.
22 September 2026
Market
Permission is not the constraint any more
Policy is opening land up across the country. Costs have moved faster, and the binding constraint has quietly changed from consent to money.
17 September 2026
Green Belt
Grey belt is not a green light
The appeal record so far says the label matters much less than the location test sitting behind it.
9 September 2026
Policy
Eight hundred metres from a station is now a planning policy
The revised framework put figures against proximity to a station: 800 metres, 35 dwellings a hectare, 45 where the service is better.
27 August 2026
Housing land supply
What a five-year supply shortfall is now worth
A supply shortfall no longer switches on a tilted balance. It now opens one specific door, and the Housing Delivery Test decides more than it used to.
19 August 2026
Policy
The tilted balance is gone
Paragraph 11(d) decided most contested housing appeals for eight years. It was switched off on 17 August, and decision policy changed the same day.
12 March 2026
Legislation
Most of the Planning and Infrastructure Act is still switched off
Royal Assent was December. Commencement is a different question, and a good deal of the Act is waiting on regulations nobody has seen.
27 October 2023
Archive
A New Dawn for UK Planning: The Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act
Published October 2023, on the Act receiving Royal Assent.
27 October 2023
Archive
Everything you need to know about strategic land and planning in the UK
Published October 2023. A general introduction to strategic land and the route to outline permission.
3 January 2023
Archive
Planning in 2023
Published January 2023, on the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill and the national policy consultation then open.