An opening date has been set for a complex which will transform a row of listed buildings into a haven for Sheffield’s creative businesses. The Roco will open on Glossop Road in November, providing 30 studios for artists, designers and makers along with exhibition spaces, a café bar, deli and shop.Work is well under way at the site since the social enterprise secured £1.1 million to realise the project’s vision, while a community share offer has raised £80,000 so far. Andrea Read more [...]

Planning Subscriber Activation

I subscribe to Planning – activate my subscription

Having trouble signing in?

Forgotten password?

Refer to our Frequently Asked Questions. If you still require assistance, please contact Customer Support at
planning.support@haymarket.com

A STATELY home has been demolished after it failed to sell for £1. The B-listed Georgian mansion, once home to some of the wealthiest families in Scotland, needed repairs in excess of £1m. But after the owners of Whitehall House, Chirnside, Berwickshire, failed to find a buyer they were given permission to knock the 250-year-old building down. Whitehall House was regarded as “regionally Read more [...]

A STATELY home has been demolished after it failed to sell for £1. The B-listed Georgian mansion, once home to some of the wealthiest families in Scotland, needed repairs in excess of £1m. But after the owners of Whitehall House, Chirnside, Berwickshire, failed to find a buyer they were given permission to knock the 250-year-old building down. Whitehall House was regarded as “regionally Read more [...]

A historic pub could soon be turned into housing following the submission of a planning application. Amplio bought The George in High Street, Great Missenden, in February 2014 and after ‘working tirelessly’ on the project has now submitted planning and listed building applications to Chiltern District Council for the conversion of the pub and barn to five houses. In April, villagers launched a campaign called Save the George to return the 500-year-old pub to its former use. The villagers are Read more [...]

A historic pub could soon be turned into housing following the submission of a planning application. Amplio bought The George in High Street, Great Missenden, in February 2014 and after ‘working tirelessly’ on the project has now submitted planning and listed building applications to Chiltern District Council for the conversion of the pub and barn to five houses. In April, villagers launched a campaign called Save the George to return the 500-year-old pub to its former use. The villagers are Read more [...]

Birmingham’s first Budapest-style ruin pub is set to be opened in one of the city centre’s oldest surviving houses as part of a £15 million development. The Grade II listed houses on Bartholomew Row, in Digbeth, which pre-date the earliest map of Birmingham, are set to be restored for a mixed use development called The Emporium. The scheme on the site of the Georgian townhouses – previously the site of the Christopher Wray lighting firm complex – will include a 15 storey student apartment Read more [...]

Birmingham’s first Budapest-style ruin pub is set to be opened in one of the city centre’s oldest surviving houses as part of a £15 million development. The Grade II listed houses on Bartholomew Row, in Digbeth, which pre-date the earliest map of Birmingham, are set to be restored for a mixed use development called The Emporium. The scheme on the site of the Georgian townhouses – previously the site of the Christopher Wray lighting firm complex – will include a 15 storey student apartment Read more [...]

Three-bedroom Oxfordshire home has been named the best house in the world by The Architectural ReviewDespite looking more like a glorified wartime bunker, property has topped list of best new homes worldwideProperty developer Mike Spink and wife Maria paid £6.7million for 50-acre plot before building Fayland HouseJudging architects praised the property's 'radical take on a country house' and its 'challenging, uneasy' designBy Emma Glanfield for MailOnline Published: 10:26 GMT, 15 Read more [...]

Three-bedroom Oxfordshire home has been named the best house in the world by The Architectural ReviewDespite looking more like a glorified wartime bunker, property has topped list of best new homes worldwideProperty developer Mike Spink and wife Maria paid £6.7million for 50-acre plot before building Fayland HouseJudging architects praised the property's 'radical take on a country house' and its 'challenging, uneasy' designBy Emma Glanfield for MailOnline Published: 10:26 GMT, 15 Read more [...]