Alex King is a Senior Editor at Huck Magazine. He focuses on themes such as urban design, real estate, and government politics, often exploring the intersections of construction, planning, and public policy. Alex's work has been featured in notable publications including The Bristol Cable, POLITICO Europe, and The ENDS Report.
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Alex King's coverage predominantly revolves around urban planning, government policies, housing, and environmental sustainability within the national context. He shows a keen interest in covering government announcements, press releases, private sector announcements, and legal policy regulations related to these topics.
If you are looking to reach out to Alex with pitches or commentary, consider offering insights related to significant changes in urban planning policies or regulations at both the local and national levels. Additionally, he may be interested in news regarding human resources & employment within the real estate industry that directly impacts urban planning and housing development.
Since there is no specific geographic focus mentioned for Alex King’s coverage attributes but considering his articles' titles often refer to councils and local plans from various areas of UK (based on domain knowledge), it would be beneficial for sources or experts reaching out to have knowledge of UK-based urban planning practices and regulations.
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By: Alex King
A judge has quashed a council's planning permission for a Premier League football club to build a training facility on a green belt golf course, after finding that officers had made a “serious” procedural error in failing to disclose papers on the scheme's biodiversity net gain provision, which had misled members of its planning committee.
By: Alex King
An inspector has allowed a developer to build 42 affordable homes on green belt land despite its landscape impact, citing the council’s “serious undersupply” of deliverable housing sites.
The biggest stories of the past seven days, including the news that a High Court judge has quashed a council’s permission for a Premier League club to build a training facility on a former golf course in the green belt after finding officers made a “serious” procedural error.
By: Alex King
The new Prime Minister has reappointed Angela Rayner as housing secretary and retained Matthew Pennycook as planning minister. How will they, and Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s policy agenda, affect the government’s approach to planning?
During the summer, the beach is often full of people well into the evening. The sun may not set until 8 or 9 p.m., but long before darkness falls, one critical thing has already changed: The lifeguards have gone off duty.
The Church of England’s property body has submitted outline proposals to deliver a mixed-use scheme on allocated greenfield land, including up to 1,607 homes, as part of a 3,000-dwelling urban extension.
By: Alex King
The head of planning at one of the country’s largest land promoters has said that the government’s new call-in threshold is having unintended consequences by incentivising local planning authorities to “defer” decisions on development schemes.
By: Alex King
Last month, the government said councils should take a “common sense approach” when handling proposals to install air conditioning units on existing buildings. Planning examines the rules governing the area, whether applications for – and enforcement actions against – aircon units are becoming more common, and what approaches councils are taking to help people adapt to climate change.
By: Alex King
An inspector has cited a council’s “substantial” housing land supply shortfall in allowing a housing association’s proposals to build 30 homes on unallocated farmland in the setting of a national park.
By: Alex King
Works on an A road junction upgrade needed to support 3,000 new homes have been at a standstill for at least two months after a council breached its own planning conditions for the scheme.
