Affordable housing and retrofitting - is Westminster Council keeping its promise? - Fitzrovia News

Tom Burke, head of sustainability at Westminster, will be talking about the council’s policies, strategies and record on retrofitting.

Bennetts to rework Derby Assembly Rooms as council gets £20m cash boost

Bennetts Associates has been hired to rework Derby’s Brutalist Assembly Rooms – the latest stage in an eight-year saga following a fire in 2014

‘Demolishing Glasgow’s Wyndford towers would be an outrage’

The residents of the run-down high-rises on Glasgow’s Wyndford estate are battling a proposal to demolish the towers and rebuild. They are true climate champions, writes architect Malcolm Fraser

Cut VAT to encourage retrofit of historic buildings, says parliamentary report

A heritage parliamentary group has called for a cut in VAT when retrofitting historic buildings and a presumption against demolition in the planning process

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Could a Grade III listing for buildings halt the UK’s tide of demolition?

The government should refresh the Town and Country Planning Act and introduce a Grade III status to protect millions of buildings from needless demolition, writes Will Arnold