The Infrastructure Planning Commission is the body set up last October to decide on  applications for infrastructure projects of national importance. Its chairman Sir Michael Pitt talks to Richard Heap about its implications for developers and the threat to the IPC from a change of a government.

Birmingham is one of four cities shortlisted for the first UK City of Culture title in 2013.
Its final bid bid, which was shortlisted today from 14 submissions, is led by a multi-million pound capital investment programme, including a new library, a new Creative Campus for Birmingham City University and a …

Land Registry workers descended on Westminster today in a bid to save up to 1,500 threatened jobs.
A lobby of over 200 staff gathered outside the Houses of Parliament to lend support to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) as it launched a proposed solution to making cuts.
The protest came …