All Housing Today articles in August 2022 – Page 18
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NewsBarratt announces two significant promotions
Watford-based arm of Britain’s largest housebuilder promotes Karly Williams to operations director and Marc Woolfe to head of sales
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NewsAcademics unveil new ‘weather-resistant’ heat pump
The ‘flexible’ technology could solve the problem of heat pumps affected by cold weather
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NewsEMH Group misses development target by 40%
Housing association says build hit by planning delays, materials shortages and pandemic impacts but is confident of hitting five-year target
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NewsGreen light for reworked 400-home Southwark scheme
Major scheme approved four years after intitial plans were rejected over density and design concerns
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NewsNew home registrations surge 45%
Increase due in part to housebuilders bringing forward schemes to avoid new energy efficiency regulations
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CommentGovernment must step in and resolve difficulties around cladding pledge
Serious questions remain about housebuilders’ pledge to carry out fire safety works on existing blocks, not least about the role of building owners, writes Charmaine McQueen-Prince
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NewsCountryside’s brand new modular factory put up for sale
Property sales agent Walker Singleton is marketing the Bardon factory as a ‘state of the art panel manufacturing line’
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NewsL&Q boosts completions 29%
Housing association increases delivery again after building a sector record 4,000 homes last year
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NewsEnergy efficiency regulations have slowed development, says Glenigan
Housebuilding starts slowed as sector got to grips with changes to part L, according to analysts.
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CommentWhy the levelling up bill may hold back housing delivery
Proposed changes to the primacy of the development plan and removal of the duty to co-operate are causes for concern to housing delivery, warns Jason Towell
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NewsBellway reports record turnover of £3.5bn despite planning delays
Housebuilder reports 13% increase in revenue and jump in completions despite planning restricting outlet openings
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NewsNotting Hill Genesis submits plans for 600 homes on Aylesbury estate
Housing association giant seeks approval for latest phase of 3,500-home regeneration scheme
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NewsNFB attacks Conservative leadership candidates’ housing plans
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are using housing as a way to win votes rather than coming up with solutions, says NFB solving the head of housing and planning policy
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News‘Don’t find local plans unsound until September’ Clark tells inspectorate
Housing secretary’s letter gets a mixed response from planning experts
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NewsTopHat to ‘become profitable within three years’
Modular developer posts £19.4m loss but insists new factory will help push it into the black
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CommentWhat happened to the information revolution in housing?
The fragmented state of housebuilding has made the data revolution difficult to take off in the sector, but this might now be changing, writes Ben Derbyshire
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NewsHalifax records first house price fall in a year
Mortgage lender says prices dropped in July and predicts slowing annual growth in wake of interest rate rise
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NewsHalf point interest rate hike ‘could slow housing market’
The Bank of England has raised the interest rate to try to return inflation rate to 2%
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NewsLovell parent company faces £50m bill as DLUHC looks to widen cladding pledge
Morgan Sindall’s urban regen arm Muse could now be included in pledge
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NewsJV North appoints 8 firms to MMC framework
North west housebuilding consortium will advertise MMC schemes on the Dynamic Purchasing System