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Greater Manchester leaders order ministers to clarify housing need standard

03.10.2018

Huw Morris

andy burnham | Greater Manchester | Housing | North West | office for national statistics | Plan Making - Spatial Planning | Policy & Politics

Greater Manchester’s spatial framework faces fresh delays and further rewrites after latest government household projections disrupted the standard method for calculating housing need.
New build affordability worse than existing builds, suggests ONS data

27.04.2018

Laura Edgar

affordability | affordable housing | Cymru | England | Housing | office for national statistics

In England and Wales in 2017, buying an existing house was ‘significantly’ more affordable than newly built homes, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Construction industry output falls

18.01.2016

Laura Edgar

construction | England | Housing | office for national statistics | UK

Output in the construction industry decreased towards the end of 2015, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.