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Government to help housebuilders deliver schools

10.10.2019

Laura Edgar

The Department of Education has announced that it will hand out loans to housebuilders to deliver schools places before new properties are finished.

Housebuilders told to protect wildlife

22.07.2019

Laura Edgar

Housing secretary James Brokenshire has told developers they must to do more to protect wildlife in Britain.

Housebuilding rising but not meeting government targets, reveals survey

27.02.2019

Prithvi Pandya

affordable housing | Brexit | England | housebuilders | Housing

The results of a survey have found that 57 per cent of housebuilders increased the rate at which they built new homes in the last year.

Housebuilders should belong to independent ombudsman

27.06.2018

Laura Edgar

Campaigning & Advocacy | Community Engagement | construction industry council | England | housebuilders

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Excellence in the Built Environment called on the government to make it mandatory for housebuilders to belong to a New Homes Ombudsman.

Housebuilders struggling to meet social housing demand, reveals survey

26.03.2018

Laura Edgar

Despite affordable and social housing being a top priority in England, housebuilders are struggling to meet demand as a result of local authorities not commissioning enough to be built, a new survey has suggested.

Planners get blamed for the housing shortfall: The song remains the same

16.03.2018

Chris Shepley

England | housebuilders | Housing | planning permission | Policy & Politics

Slow build-out rates on sites with permission cannot be put at the door of planners, says Chris Shepley

Nearly half of housebuilders are 'serial appealers'

30.11.2017

Huw Morris

Confidence in the planning system is plummeting amid a culture of 'planning by appeal', according to a poll of housebuilders.

Downing Street summit hears May’s pledge to boost housebuilding

18.10.2017

Huw Morris

Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged to take ‘personal ownership’ of the drive to speed up housing development and urged sector leaders to play their part at a Downing Street summit yesterday.

Bypass developers for more affordable housing, London architect tells MPs

02.03.2016

Simon Wicks

densification | England | housebuilders | Housing | London

Bypassing private developers could speed up housebuilding on public land and enable local authorities to build more of the right homes in the right places at the right price, a London architect has told MPs.