This morning we were delighted to welcome Westminster City Council Cabinet Member for Planning and Public Realm, Councillor Daniel Astaire to our breakfast briefing at the Ivy Brasserie.

Amid the hustle and bustle of Manchester’s metro mayor race (well covered by Iceni here and here) other, more exciting, elections are being left at the wayside. West Midlands is the election everyone should be talking about. Not only are the opportunities across the region as enticing as the Northern Powerhouse but the race to become Mayor is on a knife edge.

Iceni Projects is pleased to announce that it has secured planning consent for a major live music venue in London’s West End, on behalf of Consolidated Developments Ltd.

Iceni Projects are very pleased to announce that Christian Cosby, Ailish Killiea, Mar Lluch and Lewis Westhoff have signed up for the LandAid 10k 2017.

With 6 unitary authorities, new Metro Mayors, County Councils as well as Welsh and Scottish elections all in May there has never been a better time to demystify the question on everyone’s pre-election lips – What is Purdah?

As we await the outcome of one of the UK’s most comprehensive inquiries into the impact of foreign investment on London’s housing market, Iceni Projects Ltd takes a closer look at the current climate and what this means for the London market.

Sadiq Khan entered City Hall in May 2016 on the back of his election promise that half of all new homes built in London will be ‘genuinely affordable’. This 50% target was seen by many as ambitious, particularly when only 13% of all new homes approved in the capital in 2014-2015 were affordable.

So, the annual jamboree that is MIPIM has been and gone, and thousands of middle-aged, sleep-deprived, vitamin deficient (mostly male) property professionals are trying to explain to their partners and accounts departments the irregular nature of their credit card receipts once again.

Iceni Projects has today, 7 March, announced the appointment of Dan Jestico as Director of its Sustainable Development team.

On 7 February 2017, Theresa May’s Government published their long-awaited Housing White Paper. To many, it gave the impression of a document that had been kicked around Whitehall and steadily watered down from what was probably once a radical policy paper. Many sectors were dismayed by the absence of significant change after such fanfare in the lead up to publication. However, one sector that does seem set to be strengthened and could go on to win big is Build-to-Rent (BtR).