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Opinion: Will more regulation help or hinder developers in delivering social value?

Further regulation on social value may look inevitable, but clear planning policy is needed to demonstrate it, writes Lisa Webb.

Opinion: Getting intelligent about later living

An intelligent approach with holistic sets of data can help improve the delivery and operation of later living accommodation, and be better for residents, writes Darren Clarke.

Opinion: It's down to business to respond to the climate emergency

In the face of the inability of governments to save the planet at COP26 in Glasgow, the rest of us are going to have to lead, writes Chris Brown.

Opinion: The existential crisis facing city public transport

Fear of contagion on mass transit and the shift to home working could mean public transport use and office occupancy never return to past levels, threatening received urban paradigms, writes Tim Williams.

Opinion: Is government's commitment to First Homes fading?

The momentum behind the government's First Homes initiative to deliver affordable homes for first time buyers appears to be lagging, writes Michelle Quan.

Opinion: What the Budget told us about levelling up

Levelling up is the government's new economic confetti, writes Nigel Wilcock, but we recently got a suggestion of what it could mean for future strategy.

Opinion: Putting a price on carbon

If climate change is going to be arrested, we will almost certainly have to get used to the price of carbon being an everyday part of our lives, writes Chris Brown.

Opinion: How data can help us on the route to net zero

The industry is still in the early stages of exploring the impact of the UK's net zero carbon targets and needs information to drive decisionmaking, writes Lee Carroll.

Opinion: Housing needs fresh thinking and new business models

Price inflation in housing is not just a British event, and needs a response that both diversifies home building and tackles financialisation of property, writes Tim Williams.

Opinion: Look to leisure to help drive levelling up

£3 billion worth of investment is being poured into the leisure sector and it is contributing to town centre regeneration and the levelling up agenda, writes Stephen Collis.

Opinion: Built environment leaders need to sign up to net zero

By adopting the zero carbon ambition, leaders can give the UK government leverage to make a success of negotiations at November's United Nations climate change conference, COP26, writes Chris Brown.

Opinion: Covid has made levelling up harder

Covid-19 has widened not only the health gap between north and south, but also the economic gap, writes Tim Williams.

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