Terry Farrell and Eric Parry are to join Tate director Nicholas Serota as the new members of the London mayor’s design advisory panel, Boris Johnson announced today.

The team appointed as preferred bidder to build a BDP-designed PFI hospital in Leicester which was subsequently cancelled has launched legal action to reclaim millions of pounds in costs

London-based practice Tonkin Liu has won planning permission for its £2 million scheme to overhaul the seafront at Dover in Kent

A £14 million hotel for Liverpool, designed by local architect Falconer Chester Hall, has been given the all clear by council planners

Form Associates’ plans for a pedestrian promenade and public realm area in front of the Imperial War Museum North in Salford are taking shape after Trafford Council granted the scheme full planning permission

Brian Anson, who died last week-end in France, was part of the late 1960s Greater London Council team dreaming up new uses for Covent Garden after the market moved out to Nine Elms

Knott Architects and Planning Aid for London have received government funding for a scheme to help visually impaired people understand how the planning process works and how they can get involved in planning decisions

A campaign to prevent the listing of the Central Milton Keynes shopping centre has prompted an angry reaction from the 1970s building’s original architects

Opponents of the £4 billion Brent Cross Cricklewood masterplan by Allies & Morrison have pledged to step up their campaign by asking the government to hold a public inquiry into the project

Local councils will create 100 design adviser posts to speed process