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Urban Splash in talks to buy Croydon’s Brick By Brick Source:  Darc Studio Croydon Council is in advanced talks with developer Urban Splash about a sale of Brick By Brick, the local authority’s housebuilding business The deal, which was first revealed by the AJ’s sister publication Property Week, is at the final due diligence stage and is set to be discussed at Croydon’s cabinet meeting later this month. Advertisement If approved by Croydon Council, Manchester-based Urban Splash would snap up all of Brick By Brick’s existing assets – including its architecture arm, AJ 40 unde...

What steps need to be taken to reach net zero carbon? The first step is understanding internally where the key stakeholders stand when it comes to net zero, and the benefits and challenges of setting a net zero pathway. The next step is determining your level of ambition. Not all organisations will want to be ambitious. Some will want to keep up with the market, so it’s about being able to lay that out at the start so you can rely on your strategy with that. The third step is referring to the key guidance and credible experts to determine what a net zero pathway looks like. Previously, ther...

Grace Howarth Sustainability, the rise in last-mile logistics and the impact of Covid-19 are all major talking points – and with good reason, given how critical the ongoing success of the industrial and logistics sector is to the UK’s recovery as we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis. However, for all the opportunities, there are also plenty of challenges ahead. Last week, Boris Johnson announced that he had tightened the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions target ahead of COP26 in November. Developers are now under more pressure than ever to rise to the climate crisis challenge. Some are lookin...

By Adam Branson2021-04-30T00:00:00+01:00 Even when you know something to be true, a statistic proving it still has the power to shock. Such is the case when it comes to the huge increase in demand for industrial and logistics space as a result of the Covid pandemic. Research from Savills, shared exclusively with Property Week, shows demand in the Midlands in January this year was 223% higher than in January 2020. Across the country, requirements logged in 2020 hit 174m sq ft, 40% of which was for between 100,000 sq ft and 300,000 sq ft and 37% for more than 500,000 sq ft. But as we start t...

While people have been dreaming of living in large homes with gardens in the suburbs or countryside, the reality all too many have been waking up to is very different, especially if they live in a “home” delivered via permitted development rights (PDR). Liz Hamson, editor Since the introduction of office-to-residential PDR in 2013, the fast-track planning regime has attracted its fair share of criticism – and rightly so. Hailed initially as the solution to the housing crisis and then, following its expansion, as the solution to the retail crisis, it has led to the creation of ‘rabbit ...