September has been a busy month for everyone. Children returned to school, some people returned to work and the property market continued to thrive making everything start to feel a bit more normal. Here’s a summary of the property news we have covered in September:
A recent change to planning rules has made it easier to develop the ‘airspace’ above properties by adding more floors. Could this be a solution to the lack of housing in our overcrowded cities?
The last month of summer before many families return to work and school as normal after the Covid interruption. However, there has also been plenty of property news circling throughout this month to cast your eye over that we have covered including the following:
The government has set out a new plan to reform the UK’s planning system. The white paper, entitled Planning for the future (Full PDF here), sets out sweeping reforms to an old-fashioned planning system that is unpopular with both developers and the general public.
A recent report has shown record demand for rentals during the month of June. But is this a one-off, post-lockdown surge, or a trend that we can expect to see continuing into the rest of the year?
