Part one of this blog considered the temporary measures which have been introduced regarding relaxation of the rules on change of use in ...

This two-part blog outlines how the planning system has been temporarily relaxed in response to COVID-19, how the property market might r...

When COVID-19 entered our vocabulary earlier this year, the virus was considered to be a great leveller. We all stood an equal chance of ...

That debt laden Intu finally went into administration last Friday did not come entirely as a shock to many observers of all things retail...

David Lock Associates were asked by the Two Mile Ash Environmental Group (TMAEG) if we could, as part of the company's charitable activit...

Senior Urban Designer Owen Reading questions the role of symbols in our public spaces.

With The Planning Inspectorate's (PINS) move to "virtual" hearings and inquiries, DLA's Duncan Chadwick and Landmark Chambers' Barrister ...

DLA's Heather Pugh reflects on the commentary on the perceived success of the current round of Garden Villages published by the lobby gro...

Senior Urban Designer/Planner Scott Gibson looks at how we can design our streets, to play a role in decarbonising transport, by encourag...

As lockdown continues, DLA's Simon Collier rediscovers the teachings of classic urban design text that is Christopher Alexander's A Patte...

A hat-trick of reserved matters applications for the Glenvale Park Sustainable Urban Extension at Wellingborough were granted approval th...

It's time for a coordinated campaign for changes to public policy so that success is measured not only by the financial uplift in the val...