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NewsCrown Estate submits plans for 4,000-home Hertfordshire town
East Hemel is set to deliver affordable housing, new parks and up to four new schools
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In FocusCould York Central be the model to tackle housing's viability problem?
Work has started preparing ground for York Central, a 45-hectare development next to York station that will deliver up to 3,000 homes and 1.4m sq ft of commercial space through a public-private partnership. Thomas Lane reports.
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NewsHenry Boot forward sells site with outline planning for 1,270 homes to Persimmon
Housebuilder to work towards applying for detailed consent early next year
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NewsLandsec pauses four schemes delivering 9,000 homes as returns are ‘insufficient’
Developer says construction work on the consented schemes could start in 2027
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CommentBuilding 1.5 million homes requires a radical, joined-up strategy
Saying ‘build baby build’ is not a policy, we need fundamental structural change to housing, writes Richard Jones
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NewsWorries grow over Building Safety Regulator’s plan to clear gateway 2 backlog after building control firm collapses
Callers to Assent Building Compliance’s head office told firm has ‘ceased trading and set for insolvency’
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NewsFirst look at plans for Liverpool Festival Gardens brownfield scheme
First phase would include 440 homes
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NewsHomes England buys army barracks site for 1,300-home development
Site released as part of government’s new ‘trailblazer’ drive for development on surplus public sector land
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NewsL&G agrees to buy 200 affordable homes from Hill’s Coventry regeneration scheme
Full first phase of development will deliver 991 homes
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NewsPlatform’s development spend falls as contractor insolvencies delay three schemes
50,000-home provider improves operating surpluses and margins
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NewsCrown Estate signs development JV with Lendlease which could deliver 26,000 homes
Six major schemes in London and Birmingham named in deal
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NewsPlatform increases starts again but completions dip
Midlands-based provider eyes 7,500 new homes over the next five years
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CommentShaping the next London Plan
What should Sadiq Khan’s next spatial development strategy for Greater London consist of?. Ben Derbyshire looks at the key issues of debate
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CommentLand banking: the baseless conspiracy theory that refuses to go away
Despite numerous reviews finding no evidence of housebuilders deliberately withholding land from the market, we are again having to talk about ‘unbuilt’ homes, writes Paul Smith
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NewsPlans approved for 300-home scheme in Ealing
Ealing Council’s £125m Gurnell development will include eight main housing blocks rising to a maximum of ten storeys,
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In FocusThe 1.5 million-home question: Does the government’s planning reform programme add up?
Ministers unleashed a barrage of planning reforms in the dying days of 2024. Joey Gardiner asks if these can give the industry the boost it needs to get anywhere close to the government’s ambitious housebuilding target?
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NewsHomes England announces £250m joint venture with Oaktree Capital and Greycoat Real Estate
Public-private partnership aims to accelerate large-scale housing developments across England
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NewsYorkshire Housing boosts pre-tax surplus by 80%
The 18,900-home housing association said it has had to ‘flex’ its development programme due to the economic conditions, but is on track to meet its building target.
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NewsPersimmon ordered to halt work at development site in Leicestershire
Housebuilder issued with stop notice after carrying out works before section 106 agreement finalised
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NewsHomes England grants L&Q and the Mayor of London £124m in funding for Barking Riverside
The loan and grant funding will help to prepare the land for development of an additional 16,500 homes