By Vivienne Shirley, Senior Consultant As Londoners spend almost a third of income on rent, and the number of homeowners under 45 falls by almost a million from 2010 to 2016, is it time to look at micro-homes? The housing …

By Daniel Fryd, Senior Consultant The results of the first MHCLG Housing Delivery Test – long touted as the mechanism that would hold councils to account for their failure to build new homes – were finally revealed in February. Over …

By Michael Hardware, Director of Planning and Property, Chelgate Local Michael is also an Essex County and Harlow District councillor, vice-chairman of the county Development and Regulation Committee and sits on the district Development Management Committee. Quality design in all …

By Kasia Banas, Consultant The time taken to determine planning appeals could be cut by almost half, a Government-commissioned review has found. In the report published on 12 February 2019, Bridget Rosewell CBE concluded that the average duration of the …

Ashford –On 21 February 2019 the council endorsed the Inspectors’ Report and the appended set of recommended Main Modifications to the ‘Local Plan to 2030’ and adopted the ‘Local Plan to 2030’ as part of the Development Plan for the …

2019 picks up speed: Land values languish, key infrastructure projects, jobs boom but young suffer, and breakfast briefing recap Three key infrastructure projects to watch in 2019 Ahead of Chelgate’s Breakfast Briefing on ‘Infrastructure-led Growth’ , we take a look …

Ashford – On the 2nd January Ashford Borough Council received the Inspector’s report on the Local Plan 2030.  This brings to a close the examination and allows the Council to progress the Local Plan to adoption. Aylesbury Vale – The …

By Kasia Banas, Consultant January saw Chelgate Local kick off 2019 with another successful breakfast briefing event. The Chelgate team partnered up with Barton Willmore to host a timely discussion on the impact of an ageing population on housing provision. …