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Plans to rebuild flood defences along a stretch of the Thames in South London have been called “pathetic” and “nonsense” by locals, who said…

Plans for changes to a rubbish transfer station in South London have received over 100 objections from locals, with one fearing a “landslide”…

Sarah Townsend The developer involved in the £1.4bn regeneration of Manchester’s Mayfield depot is to restructure after posting a £50m loss for the six months ended 30 September 2020. Chief executive Matthew Weiner has stood down with immediate effect. Weiner, who said he leaves “to pursue other opportunities”, has been replaced by Richard Upton, currently chief development officer, who assumes his new role with immediate effect. Upton was the founder and chief executive of developer Ca...

Report finds data problems in Brownfield Land Registers More than 348,000 homes could be built on unregistered brownfield land, an investigation has revealed. A new report by regeneration specialist U+I has uncovered problems with the quality and consistency of data in Brownfield Land Registers (BLRs). This includes how the data is uploaded within a number of local authorities, with some including sites unsuitable for development. It also found some councils were omitting sites because of a lac...