A decade before London’s Low Emission Zone came into force, air pollution concerns had prompted the capital’s then-Mayor, Ken Livingstone, to introduce a Living Roofs and Walls policy. And since 2008 there has been phenomenal “growth”. Today London has more than 40 per cent of the UK’s green roofs and …
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The next five-year phase of the property cycle will be marked by the outcome of tomorrow’s General Election. Knight Frank’s Liam Bailey believes certainty on Brexit, either way, is a good result for the housing market. “Brexit has hovered above the market since mid-2016 and in London more than any other …
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Labour is set to mount a fresh assault on business with the shadow chancellor expected to set out plans to bring billions of pounds worth of outsourced public services back in house if it wins power. John McDonnell is understood to have drawn up draft laws that would force government …
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