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UK housebuilding
Housing developments axed as Tory planning reforms take effect
...Changes to England’s planning rules introduced by the ruling Conservative party last December are already causing local councils to cancel housing developments....
March 21, 2024
Brexit
Sadiq Khan to attack Brexit with new research on economic damage
...The London mayor will say his demand for a “closer relationship with the EU” is broadly in line with the Labour leadership....
January 11, 2024
FT Live
Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers
Wednesday, 12 June237 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA
InterviewEkrem İmamoğlu
Victorious Istanbul mayor tells Erdoğan to heed voter ‘message’
...Erdoğan campaigned heavily for his Justice and Development party’s (AKP) candidates, with the Istanbul race seen as pivotal since the president made winning back control of Turkey’s biggest city a priority...
April 8, 2024
Person in the News
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Istanbul mayor facing down Erdoğan
...“He can talk to everybody, all groups of society,” says Selcuk Sariyar, who previously served as his deputy mayor....
April 6, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
England’s promising experiment with metro mayors
...Mayors should also gradually obtain further powers: additional control over transport, skills and planning would vastly help the development of coherent local industrial strategies....
April 8, 2024
Turkish politics
Battle for Istanbul puts Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s power to the test
..., according to Can Selçuki at Istanbul Economics Research....
March 30, 2024
FT Live
US Decarbonization and Industrial Transition Summit
Securing the resources to build and finance America's clean energy future
Wednesday, 29 MayWashington, D.C., USA
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Britain’s gummed-up planning system
...The reasons for developments being delayed or cancelled can be comical: one housing development was refused permission thanks to the “moderate potential” for it to harm bats — despite no evidence of the...
February 26, 2024
UK business
Barclays boss calls for UK economic development agency
...Barclays chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan has called for the UK to create an economic development agency to drive long-term growth and depoliticise industrial policymaking....
January 16, 2024
News in-depthForeign aid
Development funds dash for donor cash at World Bank and IMF meetings
...Overseas development assistance budgets, which rich countries typically use to allocate cash for development banks and multilateral funds, rose to a historic high last year, according to OECD data released...
April 15, 2024
Miami
Miami’s mayor pitches his city as wealth-friendly ‘American Switzerland’
...Miami is positioning itself as a business haven to rival Switzerland, Monaco or Singapore, according to Francis Suarez, the mayor for whom the Florida city’s rise has become a springboard for his wider political...
March 15, 2024
UK housebuilding
UK watchdog opens probe into 8 housebuilders over information sharing
...Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said: “The Tories have overseen a broken planning system which provides incentives for developers to trickle out newly built homes, preventing the large-scale creation...
February 26, 2024
News updates from February 29: US PCE inflation falls to 2.4%, Putin warns of wider conflict over Ukraine
Clare Lombardelli appointed Bank of England deputy governor
...The position will make her responsible for overseeing UK monetary policy, as well as research....
February 29, 2024
UK local government finance
Roundabout row piles pressure on Tory mayor over conduct
...The government said match funding was a matter for mayors....
October 29, 2023
UK housebuilding
UK ministers accused of caving in to pressure from anti-development lobby
...UK housebuilders have accused the government of an “imminent surrender” to the “Not in my backyard” lobby, as they released data showing the number of planning permissions granted for new homes in England...
December 18, 2023
Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses
...The new policy became a key focus for anti-development campaigners in a fiercely fought mayoral election, and the borough’s new Conservative mayor repealed it just four years after it was announced....
February 23, 2024
FT Live
US Pharma and Biotech Summit
Strategies for innovation, pricing and access
Thursday, 16 MayNew York, NY, USA
Transcript
Transcript: Office politics — how to play the game
...Isabel BerwickMiranda is the FT’s deputy opinion editor and has written recently about the unfortunate necessity of workplace politicking....
February 27, 2024
Chris Giles
The true economic consequences of Liz Truss
...Planning policy needs to be rebalanced in favour of development so that projects can be faster and cheaper....
March 1, 2024
Andy Haldane
Economic forecasting — little more than performance art for central bankers
...John Kenneth Galbraith famously said economics was extremely useful — as a method of employment for economists. The same could be said of inflation forecasts and central bankers....
April 16, 2024
High Speed Two Ltd
Planning applications jump fourfold along course of HS2
...The HS2 line between London and Birmingham has led to a fourfold increase in planning applications for homes, office and commercial buildings around the railway’s new stations in the West Midlands, according...
February 17, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
How to make trains run on time
...China built a high-tech high-speed rail network, at high speed, helped by engineering prowess but also opaque planning processes....
April 12, 2024
Bank of England
Bank of England appoints Clare Lombardelli as deputy governor
...Last year, the House of Lords economic affairs committee called for a review of the way senior BoE appointments are made, pointing out that three of the bank’s deputy governors previously worked at the Treasury...
February 29, 2024
The best books of the week
Growth — it’s time for a reckoning
...The British government, for example, should not congratulate itself for planning annual research and development funding of a third of what Alphabet spends....
April 10, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Travel chat — planning a trip this spring? We have tips
...You don’t need to pay a fortune for all of that. Niki Blasina Yeah, yeah, I totally agree. I think long haul is the way to do it. I always say economy just by nature of my own personal economics....
March 29, 2024
Inside BusinessThomas Hale
Manufacturers need to face up to new wave of Chinese competition
...The need for so-called “high quality development” is part of a top-down approach set out in the 2025 “Made in China” policy and has become President Xi Jinping’s main refrain in the past year....
April 16, 2024
Nuclear proliferation
UN nuclear watchdog head urges development banks to fund new projects
...This story was amended after first publication to correct the IAEA figure for nuclear investment in 2022 to $50bn....
March 4, 2024

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