All Housing Today articles in January 2022 – Page 3
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News4,000 homes in Cambridgeshire given green light
‘Largest new town since Milton Keynes’ planned by Homes England
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NewsRICS boss hits back at Gove’s plan for new monitoring powers over body
Interim chief executive Richard Collins questions purpose of planned statutory governance reviews
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NewsIndustry underwhelmed by Gove’s levelling up vision
Housing and construction bodies criticise lack of detail in long-awaited white paper
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NewsFire safety guidance change will ‘fundamentally’ reduce repair costs
Ballymore boss says the withdrawal of the Consolidated Advice Note set to significantly reduce scope of works
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CommentThe Leasehold Reform Bill: a misplaced eye on developers
Limiting a ground rents ban to new-builds seems oddly aimed at housebuilders, who for the most part have modified their practice on this anyway, argues Linda Kirk
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NewsDevelopers ‘don’t know’ how many 11-18m blocks affected by fire safety crisis
HBF working with government to produce reliable numbers as housebuilders argue Gove’s £4bn repair estimate too high
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NewsKingspan threatened cladding firm with legal action if it revealed results of failed fire test
Grenfell Inquiry hears the 2008 test had failed within 15 minutes with ‘flames coming off the top of the test rig’
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NewsCity of London backs 644-bed student-housing scheme
LSE-focused Holborn Viaduct development replaces proposals for “capital’s greenest building”
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NewsHousing funding rules set for overhaul to support ‘levelling up’
‘80/20 rule’ axed to channel more Homes England money into the north and midlands
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In FocusHousing Champions Q&A: Jamie Bunce, Inspired Villages
Inspired Villages boss Jamie Bunce talks about the importance of following your passion, his ‘telepathy’ and busting myths around later living developments
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NewsBallymore told to fix New Providence Wharf remediation issues
Boss promises MPs he will address alleged poor communication and low temperatures within two weeks
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NewsSovereign surplus falls 11% as development slowdown continues
Housing association continues to battle inflation and materials shortages
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NewsInland Homes boosts turnover 46% but profit ‘unsatisfactory’
Cost over-runs, write-offs and inflation hinder margins
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CommentDesigning flexible developments for a reduced-car future
Likely reductions in car use should prompt housing developers to think about how they design schemes, writes Félicie Krikler
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NewsBarratt buys land trader Gladman
UK’s largest housebuilder to pay £250m for firm with 100,000-plot pipeline
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NewsIndustry bodies to address MPs on cladding costs
Inquiry into Michael Gove’s £4bn cladding funding plan kicks off with evidence sessions this week
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NewsTwo home counties councils reject their own local plans
Conservative-led authorities in Hertfordshire cite changing government policy on planning
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NewsRegen funding of £1.5bn to ‘level up’ 20 places
DLUHC confirms Wolverhampton and Sheffield among those to benefit and says white paper due shortly
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CommentHow do we make our towns and cities denser?
Densification of housing can drive productivity and growth in our suburbs, argues Paul Smith