News – Page 12
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NewsHousing Today’s sister title opens entries for Architect of the Year Awards 2025
Building Design launches with a new category and an entry deadline of 9 May
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NewsKhan sets out 10-year London Growth Plan in bid to ‘unlock’ 60,000 homes
Sadiq Khan has pledged to start work on three major rail schemes in the capital over the next 10 years as part of plans to unlock nearly 60,000 new homes. Extensions to the Bakerloo Line, the Docklands Light Railway and the West London Orbital have all been included in the ...
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NewsHeat pumps should be installed in half of homes by 2040, says Climate Change Commitee
Advisory body’s latest report sets out progress needed to stay on track with net zero targets
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NewsRochdale council approves 445-home scheme
Barratt Developments, LP Trows and David Wilson Homes are the scheme’s developers
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NewsLandsec to invest extra £2bn in housing development
Developer wants to reduce exposure to office market in coming five years to fund shift into residential
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NewsFormer Homes England chief executive joins Places for People board
Peter Denton becomes non-executive member of 245,000-home PfP Group
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NewsMHCLG pushes ahead with plan to ban leasehold
Shared ownership homes will be able to work within a commonhold says the government as white paper due imminently
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NewsGovernment announces 30-month target for local plans
Ministers want to reduce the seven-year average to produce and adopt local plans
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NewsHalf of young people say construction excluded from careers advice, survey finds
Chartered Institute of Building warns the government’s housing and infrastructure plans could ‘fall flat’ if something is not done on skills
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NewsMagenta Living chief executive to join Sydney housing association
Debi Marriott-Lavery to leave 13,000-home Wirral-based provider in the summer
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NewsBromford and Flagship complete merger to create 80,000-home provider
Bromford takes over both housing associations and rebrands as Bromford Flagship
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NewsSpending on existing stock up 141% at Platform Housing
Group chief says huge increase in investment is ‘morally the right thing to do’ in trading update
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NewsCouncils handed £9.3m to speed up work identifying grey belt sites
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook gives £70,000 each to 133 councils that applied for additional support
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NewsAnnual house price growth sees 3.9% increase in February, says Nationwide
While 0.4% increase from January represents ’sixth consecutive monthly gain’
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NewsNational Wealth Fund announces £150m top-up to help retrofit social homes
Treasury-owned NWF on track to provide a total £1bn in retrofit loan guarantees over next six months
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NewsRecruitment process for chief construction advisor to start ‘shortly’
Government to appoint individual to oversee initial regulatory reforms ahead of policy prospectus due this autumn
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NewsProfit and revenue down at Taylor Wimpey as fire safety provision rises
Government planning reforms reason for optimism says firm
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NewsSocial landlords' development spending forecasts at lowest level since pandemic, says regulator
Total cash and undrawn facilites at ‘historic lows’ but should cover next year’s costs
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NewsConstruction industry welcomes Grenfell Inquiry response but warns of more disruption to build programmes
’Single regulator’ to be introduced from 2028 alongside tighter controls on construction products
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NewsNHF boss repeats calls for end to 'unfair' building safety funding regime in response to Grenfell announcements
Trade body wants equal access to funding for housing associations and residents