All Housing Today articles in March 2021
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In Focus
Peter Redfern interview: ‘We were right to shut down so we could come back safer’
As Pete Redfern announces he is standing down, here is Housing Today’s exclusive two-part interview with the long-time Taylor Wimpey boss from earlier this year.
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News
Jenrick confirms huge expansion of high street PD rights
Housing secretary allows conversion of wide range of premises to homes without planning permission
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Taylor Wimpey ‘slow’ in response to summer market surge, Redfern admits
In second part of exclusive interview, housebuilder chief exec defends decision to raise £500m from shareholders
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In Focus
It’s time to look forward and be positive
Last week, Pete Redfern told Housing Today why Taylor Wimpey was right to shut sites as the pandemic struck. While there were other things he could have done better last year, he tells Joey Gardiner that he can now see a brighter future
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News
Storey Homes secures £24m funding deal
Revolving facility will allow SME housebuilder to develop Bidwell West scheme
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First images of Battersea Power Station’s great glass elevator
Glass lift will carry visitors to top of rebuilt chimney above 3,500-home regeneration scheme
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L&G poaches Grainger and Savills execs for Suburban Build to Rent venture
Staff will join project to deliver 1,000 new family homes for rent a year
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News
Anchor Hanover to build UK’s first LGBT+ extra-care housing
Later-life housing provider also about to launch new architecture framework
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Information
On-demand webinar | In conversation with Ron Lang, impact director for value at the Construction Innovation Hub
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News
MPs join call for extra care housing task force
Parliamentarians join charities and trade bodies in writing letter to the PM
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News
Mortgage lending spikes on stamp duty effect
Amount borrowed hit five-year peak in February, but new approvals fell back
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Gallagher sets date to delist housebuilder Abbey
Developer increases holding in Anglo-Czech firm to 98%
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Green Homes Grant to be scrapped this week
Abolition of £3bn domestic energy retrofit scheme is ‘misguided’, construction firms say
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Comment
Institutions investing in affordable housing must recognise needs of the sector
New money for the sector is urgently needed but to have real impact partnership deals have to be on the right terms, says Richard Jones
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Information
On-demand webinar | What are the implications of the Future Buildings & Homes Standards for the industry?
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On-demand webinar | Are traditional housebuilding methods holding back the carbon agenda?
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On-demand webinar | The CLC on CO2nstructZero – the industry’s plan to drive out carbon
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News
Construction sites to keep extended working hours until autumn
Measures introduced last May allow jobs to stay open until 9pm
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Planning hiatus expected as virtual committees to end
Government confirms it will not extend emergency covid powers which have allowed councils to hold planning committees online