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Issue PiL139 October-December 2026


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Planning in London IssuePiL139 October-December 2026
CONTENTS
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5 LEADERS
London needs growth, not just a theory about it;
On your bikes!; Housing? What housing? .PDF
7 PAUL FINCH
Situation normal – for architects! https://bit.ly/4ipeHLp
9 What makes a good neighbourhood? Hinsley Lane, Cambridge
OPINIONS
13 Reusing historic buildings | Helen Ensor
14 Why new policies represent a real shift | Riëtte Oosthuizen
15 Khan’s development arm | Ciaran Nerval
17 St Paul’s & fabric | The London Society
18 Something in the City | Lee Mallett .PDF
19 Why PM must solve housing mismatch | Suzanne Benson
20 A problem with the draft London Plan? | Simon Ricketts
21 The pro-development presumptions in the new NPPF | Simon Ricketts
23 Is socially-rented housing unfairly maligned? | Merlin Fulcher
24 Urban agglomeration benefits | Mark Willingale
26 The New NPPF and viability | Andrew Golland
30 BRIEFING
The new London Plan: 10 changes that could shape London’s future | The London Society; Housing planning approvals fall to lowest level in more than a decade; Comments on the property and planning announcements made at the Conservative Party Conference; British Library extension gets under way; Architects appointed for Royal Docks floating neighbourhood; Devolution drive could shift 90,000 jobs out of London; Vape shops and gaming centres face tighter planning rules; New exemptions to Biodiversity Net Gain
come into force; Quite a result for the Square Mile’s built environment community; New planning rules give homeowners more flexibility
to install solar panels; Truman Brewery masterplan approved with data centre; Orms reveals plans to turn BT Tower into hotel
34 CLIPBOARD
James Cleverly quits shadow cabinet to run for London mayor; Foster calls for nuclear revolution as renewables threaten ecosystems
35 ¡PILLO!
Khan pledges to put women and girls at heart of London planning; What would a Reform government do to the English planning system?; Slow Horses glamorise the Barbican; The most powerful, coherent and quietly revolutionary national planning policy we've ever had, says Zack; Residential development
is unviable in nearly half of England
36 PLANNING PERFORMANCE https://tinyurl.com/yz682r8a
The number of applications received and decided continue on down from the same quarter last year
40 LONDON PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT FORUM https://tinyurl.com/82yymc2y
41 Michael Edwards
42 Draft new London Plan;
46 New NPPF – implications for London;
48 New typologies for a changing London
55 ANDREW ROGERS
More meanings of words without knowledge .PDF
FEATURES
56 How to re-legalise housing | Nicholas Boys Smith .PDF
58 Has the time come for a National Spatial Strategy? | Kate Barker https://bit.ly/4ywjjnT
60 JLL Living Roundup report | Karl Tomusk and Marcus Dixon
62 From planning data to property decisions | Ziad Nasr
64 The end of briefing panels? | Owen Ward .PDF
BOOKS
66 Royal Festival Hall A Living Icon, Edited by Eleanor Jolliffe and Sandy Rattray; Photography by Edmund Sumner; Foreword by Dan Cruickshank
67 Where We Live, Jonathan Glancey; Books received .PDF
69 PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT REFERENCE GUIDE .PDF
72 SUBSCRIPTION ORDER FORM
71 Shaping the World: Car parks to communities | Lichfields .PDF
75 ADVICE .pdf
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