All housebuilding articles
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NewsHousebuilding targets to help grow economy next year, RSM says
But financial services specialist warns industry needs more workers to meet government’s ambition
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News‘It’s not a surprise’: housebuilding starts and completions plummet in Scotland
CIH Scotland says fall is due to rising build costs and an underfunded affordable housing programme
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NewsNPPF: Government drops 50% affordable housing requirement for grey belt sites
Labour yields to key housebuilder ask as it launches NPPF with 370,000-home mandatory housing target
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NewsNew government’s rhetoric already affecting planning, says Berkeley
Housebuilder reports drop in pre-tax profit on increased revenue in half-year results
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NewsStarmer defends ‘too ambitious’ 1.5m homes target
Prime minister re-commits to housebuilding target in set piece speech, saying ‘brave’ action is necessary to drive bold action
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NewsHousing supply falls 6% year-on-year
13,220 fewer net additional dwellings in 2023/24 compared to previous year, official figures show
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NewsCommittee ‘concerned’ Welsh government’s 20,000 social homes target will not meet demand
The Housing and Local Government committee has suggested that the government needs to raise its social housing target from 20,000 to 60,000.
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NewsPennycook ‘convinced’ 1.5 million homes are deliverable but won’t commit to annual targets
Housing minster tells MPs he can’t provide a figure for the number of affordable or social rent homes to be delivered within the 1.5 million homes target
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News‘Cautious optimism’ as new home registrations rise 40% year-on-year despite London drop-off
Affordable housing growing more slowly than private, according to latest figures from NHBC
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In FocusHow worried should the sector be about Vistry?
Housebuilding industry poster-child Vistry has been charting an aggressive growth course despite a tricky market over the last two years. Joey Gardiner asks why it has now lost half its value after two profit warnings in two months
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CommentLabour can and should release the potential of modular housing
The UK leads the way in the field of offsite housing construction. It is time for the government to have some skin in the game, Ben Derbyshire writes
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NewsGovernment will miss 1.5 million homes target by almost a third without funding, the NHF and HBF warn
Research by Savills shows there there could be a shortfall of up to 95,000 new homes per year.
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NewsGovernment needs to build 450,000 new homes a year by 2029 to meet target, says Housing Forum
Membership group sets out roadmap for how the new government can achieve the highest rate of housebuilding in 50 years
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NewsVistry set to unseat Barratt as country’s biggest housebuilder
Patnerships developer set to build 18,000 homes this year, taking it above figure predicted by rival
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NewsReport backed by major developers calls for government to help SME housebuilders
Pocket Living has urged the government to to create Homes England ‘SME managers’ as part of 10-point plan to help ‘save’ smaller housebuilder sector
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NewsNational housing targets must be prioritised over local objections, says think tank
The Institute for Government has said the government must not compromise on national housing targets regardless of the outcome of the updated National Planning Policy Framework consultation
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CommentIn the rush to build 1.5 million homes how do we safeguard quality?
Starmer’s government wants to build at a speed and scale not seen since the 1970s, but the building spurts of the past resulted in homes of dubious quality, warns Denise Chevin
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NewsHomes England exceeds annual housing starts and completions targets
Homes England chair says the figures reflect the conclusion of the recent Public Bodies review and the “effectiveness and efficiency” of the agency
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NewsLabour to unveil golden rules for building on ‘grey belt’
The policy has the potential to unlock land to build hundreds of thousands of new homes, says Knight Frank
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NewsFMB calls for dedicated secretary of state for housing
The Federation of Master Builders will launch its election manifesto in parliament today