Tim Coleridge: Chelsea needs a Crossrail 2 station

King’s Road station would be under the ground – the entrance a discreet opening between two Edwardian buildings.

Antony Calvert: Radical thinking on the planning system is welcome

Brandon Lewis is proposing a drastic change to the processes which hold our country back.

The Government’s latest gambit: directly commissioning new houses

Ministers have become more cautious when a policy requires legislation – and more radical when it doesn’t.

London’s Boroughs 1965-2015: Half a century of failure

Over the last half century municipal leaders have caused the capital to become an uglier place to live and work.

Duncan Sim: Direct Planning – the what, the why, and the wider significance

Lord Lexden’s Bill provides an opportunity to bring real localism and better design to building new homes.

Paul Abbott: The scandal of the Stockwell Bus Garage – and why we must build on brownfield land to get the homes we need

These two acres are used as an overnight cleaning shack – with no housing on top of it. Nothing. Zilch. Not a square metre of living room: just thin air.

Judy Terry: The revival of Ipswich

The Labour council’s planning delays make it harder to fix the mistakes of the 1960s.

Cllr Rock Feilding-Mellen: In Kensington and Chelsea, estate regeneration will mean low rise but high density

The objective must be to create more attractive places for people to raise families.

Judy Terry: Councils must show flexibility to save our pubs

Allowing change of use, or sympathetically designed extensions, can bring derelict buildings back to life.

How to build the homes we need

The Government is in danger of trying to unpick the housing lock with the wrong key or, in exasperation, simply kicking the door down – which would be a vote-loser.

Peter Walker: We need a national housing strategy to increase supply

There is a chronic shortage of skilled construction workers.

Adam Wildman: The green belt is suffocating our cities – so it’s time to scrap it

In total, England has enough brownfield land for one million homes. This is nowhere near enough.

Tower blocks should be de-listed

Where mistakes have been made it should be possible overturn them.

Villages need more homes to thrive

Sustaining rural life is consistent with easing the housing supply.

Nicholas Boys Smith: A guide for councillors to secure the new housing their residents want

Councillors need not be passive as planning officers push through ugly developments.