Taylor Wimpey is offering to throw work space in for free at its Sandringham and Waterside Park developments in west London. The volume house builder is making the ‘buy the living space, get the work space free’ deal on its developments at Waterside Park, West Drayton and Sandringham, Ruislip.

Plans for urban extensions to Bromyard and Ledbury should contain live/work units, according to local authority’s council’s planning documents for the two Herefordshire townsHerefordshire council’s preferred spatial options for Bromyard and Ledbury, which have gone out for public consultation over the past month, says that both towns are characterised by relatively high levels of out-commuting.

Levels of home working increased in urban areas faster than in rural areas, according to new figures. The State of the Countryside 2010 report by the Commission for Rural Communities, the abolition of which was announced by environment secretary Caroline Spelman last month, says that home working increased by 2.3% to 954,000 since the second quarter of 2008.

Elected members have overturned their officers’ attempt to block a development that complies with the council’s own pro-live/work policy. North Somerset council’s planning committee voted to back Tuckerwood Development’s plans for 24 dwellings including 14 live/work units in the village of Winscombe.

The government has cancelled a string of regional spatial strategies which back live/work development. Communities secretary Eric Pickles announced at the Local Government Association's annual conference that the nine RSSs were being revoked with immediate effect.