Housing delivery: case studies
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In FocusA vision for 150,000 homes but no water to supply them. Does Gove’s Cambridge plan stand a chance?
The housing secretary wants to build nearly three times as many homes as the target set by Cambridge’s own planners. Is there something he knows that they don’t? Daniel Gayne reports
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In FocusSandbach saga: meet the housebuilder standing up to Michael Gove
In the latest example of the housing secretary intervening in planning on design grounds, we talk to Colin Muller of Muller Property Group, about the Sandbach development in Cheshire East which has been called in
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Housing Delivery‘A place of pioneers’: Greenwich Millennium Village
Labour’s vision of sustainable communities is still going strong 20 years on – in at least one case
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Housing DeliveryBarton Park, Oxford: A unified approach to housing development
Oxford City Council could have sold the site, but instead it entered a partnership with Grosvenor to create an exemplar of quality placemaking
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Housing DeliveryMarmalade Lane, Cambridge: a case study of co-housing
How does this housing development that was instigated and managed by residents work in practice?
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Housing DeliveryCase study: Lollard Street social housing
A Section 106 agreement gave rise to a scheme of housing, a green square and a nursery in London’s Lambeth
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Housing DeliveryHow Sweden is championing offsite to build its homes
Sweden uses offsite manufacture to build at least 45% of its new homes. Could the UK emulate this approach, making use of modern techniques?
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Housing DeliveryWelsh Streets, Liverpool: developing derelict Victorian terraces for 21st-century living
This radical build-to-rent scheme encourages community and provides a blueprint for other developers
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Housing DeliveryWembley Park, London: plans for the UK's largest build-to-rent scheme
On a vast regeneration site in London’s Wembley Park, developer Quintain is building what it hopes will be the UK’s largest build-to-rent scheme
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Housing DeliveryBourne Estate, London: valuing high-quality communal space
Matthew Lloyd’s clever remodelling of an inner London estate shows the value of high-quality healthy communal space
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Housing DeliveryWhy North West Cambridge is a model for building on the green belt
This £1bn development is Cambridge university’s answer to a critical housing shortage for its students and staff. But instead of getting the private sector to build for it, the university has taken on the role of developer itself