Planning, Place & Power: When Demolition Is the Weapon

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REBECCA LLOYD-JONES

Through Permit Pending and Site Intel, she analyses the forces shaping residential development in real time - from planning policy and interest rates through to construction costs, infrastructure pressure, feasibility and delivery risk - translating complex market signals into grounded, practical development intelligence.

Across the globe — and here in Australia — planning decisions are shaping who belongs, who gets displaced, and how quietly injustice is built into place.

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Planning, Place & Power: When Demolition Is the Weapon

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Head over to the Travaux Substack for my take on a recent BBC investigation into how wide-scale demolition in Gaza is being used — not just as warfare, but as a strategic tool to reshape land, erase communities, and reassert power through planning.

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