Josephine Smit
In FocusInterview: Jez Sweetland, Bristol Housing Festival
Lawyer turned housing innovator explains how the festival is helping deliver MMC built homes in Bristol
In Focus'You’re a success if you deliver homes, whatever the political climate’: Ebbsfleet Garden City
After a slow start, housebuilding with a focus on community is picking up pace at Ebbsfleet Garden City
In Focus‘Genuine community building’: Ken Dytor on transforming Purfleet
The Urban Catalyst founder on big plans for the Essex town, improving the health of its residents and what regeneration is like post-Brexit
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
In Focus‘Improve the stock of human happiness’: Interview with Neil Murphy, founding director of TOWN
The founding director of developer TOWN on award-winning co-housing scheme Marmalade Lane and how to shake up placemaking
In Focus‘We are still fighting our corner’: Interview with Katy Jordan, Storey Homes
The managing director of Storey Homes on succeeding as an SME housebuilder and taking on the government
In Focus‘It is like living in a container, but it’s not’ – Inland Homes’ hugg
How Inland Homes – via a division named hugg – became an accidental pioneer in temporary housing
In Focus‘There are many central London sites sitting there that could be earning an income’
Russell Pedley of Assael Architecture explains why how putting homes above a railway line is tricky yet lucrative
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
In FocusIs infrastructure delivery hampering housing developments?
Housebuilders are increasingly being called on to carry out infrastructure projects
In FocusInterview: Dave Sheridan, executive chairman, Ilke Homes
The modular homes manufacturer talks targeting new markets, new factories, and a modular academy
In FocusInterview: Jackie Sadek, UK Regeneration
The UK Regeneration founder on bringing a “great estates” type model to the whole of Biggleswade
In FocusInterview: Johnny Caddick, Moda Living
”We heard rumblings about Carillion early doors, and put together a ‘what if’ plan”
In FocusInterview: George Clarke
The architect and TV presenter wants the government to build 100,000 council homes a year
In FocusInterview: Karen Curtin, Graven Hill
The developer MD talks through the self- and custom-build scheme showcased on Channel 4’s Grand Designs – The Street
In FocusProfile: Master developer Urban&Civic
Managing director Robin Butler on quality, reliability, and how to get what you want from housebuilders
In FocusInterview: Andrew Taylor, Patel Taylor
The architect on designing London’s large, residential-led schemes and how to make distinctive places
In FocusInterview: Mark Kitts, Liverpool Foundation Homes
The housing company boss talks rent-to-buy, its relationship with the council, and helping to found a boxing academy
In FocusInterview: Paula Higgins, HomeOwners Alliance
The campaign group leader discusses snagging retention and what reforms buyers really need
In FocusInterview: Andrew Matthews, Proctor & Matthews
The acclaimed architect discusses distinctive places, design and build, and developing communities to combat loneliness