New apartment guidelines are hard to live with

The cranes are back, diggers are on site and figures suggest home completions have picked up. It all sounds ideal, but it’s important at this juncture to take a step back and ask a very simple question – what are we developing?

The fast-track planning scheme has resulted in more than 15,000 houses and apartments being given the go-ahead, while new apartment guidelines around minimum space requirements have also enhanced developers’ ability to ...