Built Environment

Raze or retrofit? Brutalism on the brink

Raze or retrofit? Brutalism on the brink

Five Brutalist buildings from around the world that have been recently saved or marked for demolition

Mark Williams31 August 2026Read Time: 10 minutes

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Planning the city at pedal level

Planning the city at pedal level

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Planning the city at pedal level

Nearly 9m Santander Cycle hires and a year of collision records, mapped: what London’s busiest docks, riskiest junctions and strangest journeys tell us about how the city should be designed

Toby Mathews and Ashley Stewart-Noble 17 August 2026 Read Time: 5 minutes

Can you build a road and improve biodiversity?

Can you build a road and improve biodiversity?

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Can you build a road and improve biodiversity?

The A417 Missing Link project in the Cotswolds is planting 122,000 trees and includes a green bridge for animals, walkers, cyclists, and horse riders to use

Mark Williams 24 July 2026 Read Time: 10 minutes

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Brendan Fisher MRICS: saving our music venues

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Emma Johnston06 July 2026 Read Time: 10 minutes

Commercial property

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Have we made our homes too toasty?

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Gela Pertusini29 June 2026 Read Time: 10 minutes

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Building safety regulations: time for a radical rethink?

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go to article Building safety regulations: time for a radical rethink?

Stuart Watson15 June 2026 Read Time: 10 minutes

Building control

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The magnificent seven? Building England’s new towns

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Noella Pio Kivlehan26 May 2026 Read Time: 10 minutes

Cities and placemaking

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How many extra surveyors does the UK need each year?

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Mark Williams27 April 2026 Read Time: 10 minutes

Building surveying

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Is pedal-powered Waterbeach a blueprint for new towns?

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Karen Day20 April 2026 Read Time: 10 minutes

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Can robots solve the housing crisis?

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Adam Branson13 April 2026 Read Time: 10 minutes

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How the rise of ‘granny flats’ can unlock housing supply

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go to article How the rise of ‘granny flats’ can unlock housing supply

Gela Pertusini16 March 2026 Read Time: 10 minutes

Land and resources

Property finance and investment

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The colossal undersea cable creating energy security

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Stuart Watson09 March 2026 Read Time: 10 minutes

Marine environments

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Why the Church of England has faith in social housing

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Gela Pertusini23 February 2026

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