Westminster City Council has approved plans for a significant refurbishment of one of the world’s most famous art galleries The Tate Britain.
Westminster City Council’s planning and City Development committee last night granted permission for the works which are “intended to extend the repertoire of social spaces inside the gallery”.
The improvements …

A government inspector has given the all-clear to a central plank of Wandsworth council’s new planning framework which will guide development in the borough during the next 15 years.
The core strategy is the key document in the council’s Local Development Framework (LDF). The planning inspectorate has now confirmed that the …

Transport for London will no longer become the first office tenant at the Shard at London Bridge as the developers look to position the building at the “top end” of the London market.
The transport body was lined up to take nearly 200,000 sq ft at the landmark development, part of the £2bn London …

The London Development Agency (LDA) has begun a search for development partners for a site in the Albert Basin in east London’s Royal Docks.
It is seeking a partner to help it develop The Gallions Quarter which will be mixed-use scheme, with more than 600 new homes built to high environmental …

Strategic Sites has started construction of the £73m Kirklees College in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in a development which will help kickstart the Huddersfield Waterfront Quarter regeneration scheme.
The development arm of Wynyard Park plans to complete the 260,000 sq ft campus by September 2012.
It will replace obsolete 1970’s buildings and is …

The Homes and Communities Agency’s affordable housing project, the “London-wide initiative”,  is to be wound up.
The HCA has decided within the last few weeks to end the initiative, which English Partnerships launched in 2003 to build homes for key workers on 16 HCA-owned London sites.
Three of the sites have been …

The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) has called for expressions of interest from parties interested in using the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Olympic Games.

It said today: “Organisations or consortia, interested in managing, operating in, or locating to the Stadium after the London 2012 Games will have eight weeks …

Manchester City Council, New East Manchester and Manchester City Football Club have today signed a formal agreement to redevelop 200 acres of east Manchester.
The three parties have formed a joint development board to redevelop the area around the City of Manchester stadium, the home of football club Manchester City and …

London mayor Boris Johnson pledged today to bring 3,000 empty homes back into use in a new London Housing Strategy published today.
He said that he would achieve this aim by trebling the funding to £60m.
£39.9m of funding has so far been released to London’s boroughs, focused on bringing long-term unused, …

The Olympic Park Legacy Company is seeking two principal advisory partners to help it find a viable use for the main stadium (pictured) after the London 2012 games.
The company, headed by chairman Baroness Margaret Ford and chief executive officer Andrew Altman, last month issued a competitive tender through the Office …