Neglected buildings plans announced

‘Eric Pickles, the Communities and Local Government Secretary, has announced a series of new...

Property market upturn predicted

‘Deloitte has forecast that the year 2013 will mark the bottom of the UK...

Low-rise move suggested

A report by the Policy Exchange says that demolishing council tower blocks and moving...

Office to residential planning changes

‘The FT reports that this week the government could push through changes to the...

Rate appeals ruining retailers

Retailers have said that urgent action is needed to deal with the huge backlog...

Garden cities call

Nick Clegg, the Deputy PM, has said that new “garden cities” should be built...

Developers Face New Regulations

The FT reports that UK commercial property developers are facing far higher costs and...

Expand villages

A Conservative group of modernisers, backed by Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude and Planning...

Housing market recovering

‘The UK housing market is showing signs of prolonged recovery, according to the latest...

HMRC should drop the witch hunt on tax planning

Our tax team have commented via the UK200Group on whether HMRC is taking the...

Cash for councils

‘Nick Boles, the Planning Minister, will announce today that councils will be offered cash...

Cuts in child benefit ‘will hit working families in poor half of society as well’

BKL tax partner David Whiscombe is quoted by the Daily Mail in its article...