Planning in London

24Apr 2026

Planning in London, Issue 137, April-June 2026

24th April 2026|Categories: Planning in London|Tags: , , , , |

Issue 137 of Planning in London, the journal of the London Planning and Development Forum, has been published, covering the period April-June 2026.  London Forum has a subscription arrangement whereby our members may read it.

Our AI-generated summary can be downloaded.

Table of contents:

  • The housing delivery crisis from multiple angles (Berkeley halting land buys, the 84% collapse in starts, viability evaporating across most of London)
  • The new NPPF and what [more…]
15Mar 2026

Planning in London, Issue 136, Jan-Mar 2026

15th March 2026|Categories: Planning in London|Tags: , , , , |

Issue 136 of Planning in London, the journal of the London Planning and Development Forum, has been published, covering the period Jan-Mar 2026.  London Forum has a subscription arrangement whereby our members may read it.

A useful AI-generated summary can be downloaded (included in website searches).

Table of contents:

  • Planning Enables; It Doesn’t Deliver — the editors’ critique of housing delivery failure.
  • New Kinds of Suburbia — Mallett on suburban densification and design-led approaches.
  • Key Opinion Pieces [more…]
11Oct 2025

Planning in London, Issue 135, Oct-Dec 2025

11th October 2025|Categories: Planning in London|Tags: , , , , |

Issue 135 of Planning in London, the journal of the London Planning and Development Forum, has been released, covering the period October-December 2025.  London Forum has an agreed subscription arrangement whereby our members may read it, but links are not available on this website.

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The full edition is not available on the website.

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24Jul 2025

Planning in London, Issue 134, July-Sept 2025

24th July 2025|Categories: Planning in London|Tags: , , , , |

Issue 134 of Planning in London, the journal of the London Planning and Development Forum, has been released, covering the period July-September 2025.  London Forum has an agreed subscription arrangement whereby our members may read it.

The full edition is not available on the website.

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16Apr 2025

Planning in London, Issue 133, April-June 2025

16th April 2025|Categories: Planning in London|Tags: , , , , , |

Issue 133 of Planning in London, the journal of the London Planning and Development Forum, has been released, covering the period April-June 2025.  London Forum has an agreed subscription arrangement whereby our members may read it.

The full edition is not available on the website.

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13th May 2026|

By Ben Derbyshire, chair at HTA Design, former RIBA president, and President of the London Forum.

Ben Derbyshire

I don’t generally play for laughs, but I got one anyway at Design West’s Arnolfini conference on Labour’s then-new housing plans when I urged the audience not to hold their breath waiting for the twelve promised new towns. We still haven’t finished the ones Richard Crossman began in the 1960s. As it turns out, we needn’t have worried because of the seven finally announced, all but one are not new towns at all, but much more sensible urban extensions.… Read more...

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