modular housing

Extraspace Solutions awarded £40m modular housing contract

02.05.2019

Prithvi Pandya

Heritage | London | modular housing | place

PLACE, a not-for-profit organisation, has awarded Extraspace Solutions a £40 million contract to deliver 200 modular homes by 2021 for homeless Londoners.
Ireland round-up: Dublin deploys emergency measures for first modular new-build project; Skills shortage fears for major projects

08.03.2019

Roger Milne

Dublin City Council | Heritage | Ireland | modular housing | skills shortage

A round-up of planning news in Ireland: 2 March-8 March, 2019
Dublin deploys emergency measures for first modular new-build project

08.03.2019

Roger Milne

Dublin | Ireland | modular housing | Policy & Politics

Dublin City Council has confirmed to The Planner that it is using emergency powers contained in Irish planning legislation to deliver the capital’s first development of prefabricated modular housing.
Wolverhampton constructs council homes offsite

25.01.2018

Laura Edgar

council housing | Housing | modular housing | West Midlands | wolverhampton

The first of the City of Wolverhampton Council’s council homes to have been constructed offsite will be dropped into place at Fallings Park at the end of this month.
Government adviser urges new focus on modular housing

20.11.2017

Huw Morris

Housing | Mark Farmer | modular housing | Policy & Politics | skills crisis | SME | Technology | UK

The government must focus on modular housing and put more energy into encouraging offsite manufacturing or risk making the construction skills crisis worse, says a government adviser.