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CommentBritain’s housing crisis is now the biggest blocker to growth
The way we frame housing as a choice between arbitrary tenure categories is outdated and must change if we are to treat it as economic infrastructure, writes Darren Rodwell.
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CommentEnsuring residents feel safe - are developers ready to listen to young people?
Designing schemes with safety embedded requires conversations with residents who will spend their youngest years there, writes Neha Islam
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CommentRegeneration fails when it does not support belonging
Community infrastructure is too often treated as the softer side of development. In practice, it is one of the conditions that makes regeneration acceptable, deliverable and durable, writes Andy Cowan
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CommentWill Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’ be a lifeline for housebuilding?
The next prime minister must resist the temptation to unpick everyhting and instead build on existing progress, writes Ben Derbyshire
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CommentThe Nature Restoration Fund - a viable way to meet environmental obligations?
The government’s plan is intended to allow developers to pay into a fund instead of directly delivering mitigation works. Sophie Henwood looks at its chances of success and finds it is anything but straightforward
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CommentHow do we translate the £15bn Warm Homes Plan into delivery and meaningful change for families?
Dan Germann argues collaboration and sector-wide sharing of knowledge is crucial to success to ensuring the government’s flagship retrofit plan delivers
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CommentUnlocking 500,000 good quality homes: how the Renew inquiry is making the case for northern growth
The Northern Housing Consortium’s inquiry into housing-led regeneration published its interim report earlier this month, Tracy Harrison explains what comes next
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CommentHousebuilders must stop treating housing associations as buyers of last resort
Early engagement is crucial when seeking to sell homes to providers, writes Jonathan Pearson
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CommentTackling the stigmatisation of social housing residents is a leadership issue
Stigma is not inevitable. It is shaped by choices and behaviours and can be reduced through deliberate, consistent action, writes Rachael Williamson
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CommentUnlocking Crews Hill: the legal routes to delivering a 21,000-home new town
Enfield Council’s new Conservative-led leadership has withdrawn support for its proposed new town but Sadiq Khan and the government are looking at ways to press ahead. James Clark outlines the options
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CommentWhat the Future Homes Standard means for Britain’s housebuilders
The biggest shift in energy and carbon regulations for new homes in a decade is substantial but manageable, writes David Ross
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CommentSection 106 is won or lost early: why social housing providers must be involved from the start
Schemes see the best results when social landlords have a seat at the table at the beginning, argues Ben Townsend
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CommentHow the G15 Residents’ Group is pioneering a new, strategic form of tenant involvement
New research and toolkit should help other multi-landlord or consortium groups of housing associations establish their own resident groups. Daisy Armstrong explains more
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CommentThe danger of building homes at any cost
Delivering 1.5 million homes means little if quality is sacrificed in the process. Without strong design leadership and long-term thinking, today’s solutions could become tomorrow’s regeneration failures, says Satish Jassal
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CommentThe thicket of detailed standards thwarting housebuilding in London is not the answer
Ben Derbyshire asks whether it is time to rethink the section 106 system and regulatory framework for housebuilding in London
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CommentWhy community matters in the housing debate
The housing sector often talks about numbers of units developed but at its heart housing is about whether a community feels like home, writes Elly Hoult
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CommentWill local government reorganisation speed up housing delivery or slow it down?
Stuart Crickett outlines the pros and cons of the impending English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act and what needs to be done to ensure it delivers for housebuilding
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CommentThe push and pull factors behind building new homes in the UK: a contractor's view
Clients engaging firms early on in the development process will unlock much-needed housing, says Paul Woodhams
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CommentMilburn’s report on NEETs should be a call to arms for housing
The latest figures showing the numbers of young people not in employment, education or training are bleak, but the housing sector can do a lot to improve the outlook, writes James Howell
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CommentPlanning application fees should only go up if the process improves also
Simply charging more for a broken system doesn’t fix it. Here’s what ministers should do instead to improve planning, writes Paul Smith