Features archive
Planning
A
- Affordable homes: being policy-compliant
- Affordable homes: learning from America
- Airspace ownership: development issues
- Approved documents: adapting for digital
- Archaeology: getting historic sites recognised before development
- Archaeology: prompting proper project planning
- Artificial intelligence: impact in the workplace
- Ash dieback: changing the landscape
B
- Bat conservation: good practice for conducting surveys
- Belt building: housing and green space
- BIM: cyber defence measures required
- Biodiversity: key laws and policies
- Biodiversity funding: new models
- Boundaries: protocol for dealing with disputes
- Boundary disputes: unbiased work
- Building conservation: level of expertise at risk
- Building control in Australia: recording data
- Building conversion: exploiting opportunities
- Building surveying and drones: developing technology
C
- Commercial developments: planning challenges
- Commercial property: cycle storage and smart technology
- Commercial property law FAQs: Service of applications, without prejudice, experts
- Compensating for compulsory acquisition
- Compulsory purchase powers: mandatory behaviours
- Conservation: retaining and sharing skills
- Conservation and renewal: restoration in Westminster
- Construction: the backbone of the backbone
- Construction resources: mineral shortages
- Consultations: communication and proptech
D
E
F
- Farm business tenancies: background to the RICS Agreements
- Flood defence: building quality and construction
- Flooding: adapting to the rising challenge
- Flooding: Earth Observation satellites
- Flooding: have concerns been addressed?
- Flooding: new plans to protect properties
- Flooding: promoting resilience
- Flooding: recovering from damage
- Flooding: repairable approaches
- Flooding: soft skills and flood repair
- Flooding: surveyors and flood risk mitigation advice
- Flooding: techniques for drying property
- Flooding: UK’s first amphibious house
- Flooding: using geographical data to predict floods
- Flooding prevention: glacial lake outbursts
- Fracking: underbalanced drilling can address concerns
G
H
- Health and safety: lone workers
- Heathrow third runway: planning and legal challenges to come
- Heathrow third runway: planning and legal challenges to come
- Heritage: protecting the historic environment in Wales
- Heritage assets: legislative context
- High street rentals: challenges and solutions
- Historic buildings: laser scanning developments
- Housing: assessing the market
- Housing: UK crisis and policy responses
- Housing and planning: provisions for the 2016 Act
- Housing and Planning Act: key changes in the Act
- Housing market issues: Vancouver, Canada
- Housing space standards: imposing requirements
I
L
- Land administration: quick and affordable security of tenure
- Land governance: 2030 goals
- Land matching in England
- Land measurement: adopting a global standard
- Land value: finding a price
- Legal questions: buying unregistered land
- Legal questions: claiming blight
- Local authorities: collecting address and street data
- Local energy: cost-effective decarbonisation
- Logistics: the link between homes and warehouses
M
N
- Natural investment: Scotland and Finland
- Natural resources: growing demand
- Neighbour disputes: mediation
- Neighbourhood planning: challenges
- New camera technology: improved water management
- New forests: planting the future
- New home case studies: linking good design and value
- New software platform: building open-source data
- NPPF: a new direction
P
- Party walls: an avoidable costly award
- Planning: digital models and data
- Planning: value of a place
- Planning and the private rented sector: reducing the housing deficit
- Planning applications: potential effects on the environment
- Planning challenging in London: 3D interactive model
- Planning laws in England: acronyms
- Planning policies: implementing sustainability
- Planning policy: unintended consequences
- Planning the streets: health and fitness
R
- Relief work: mapping disaster zones
- Residential: re-using empty property
- Residential: rights of light complexities
- Residential: summarising RICS policy
- Residential building surveyors: requirements of domestic clients
- Residential developments: issues related to the Highways Act 1980
- RICS Africa summit: smart cities
- RICS residential policy: property prices and the rental market
- Rights of light: determining infringements
- Rights of light: developments subsequent to the RICS guidance note
- Rights of light: RICS guidance overview
- Rural: encouraging responsible farming practices
- Rural: farming forecast
- Rural business: policy changes
S
- Scotland field sports: at risk after policy changes
- Scottish rural issues:land use in the uplands
- Skyward: mapping the city
- Smart cities: big data to improve city life
- Smart cities: business plans
- Smart cities: dealing with big data
- Subsidence and old mine workings: underground dangers
- Sustainable drainage: surface water flood resilience
T
U
- UK building stock: challenges to maintain progress
- UK flood management: considering China's approach
- UK housing supply: members' responses
- UK housing supply: more members' responses
- UK zero carbon targets: retrofitting for energy efficiency
- Unoccupied premises: opening the market
- Urban infrastructure and balancing lifestyles: Whitechapel. London project
- Urban land: ecosystem services
- Urban resilience: building protection
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