News – Page 12
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G15 calls for £15bn a year in AHP grant funding amid steep drop in starts
Starts on affordable homes in London have dropped by 76% compared to last year
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Profit and revenue tumble at Scottish housebuilder Springfield
Firm only building homes ‘when they are reserved’
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Platform confident of hitting development target despite 8% fall in completions
Midlands-based housing association forecasting 1,300 completions this year
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McLaren Living submits 600-home updated Reading redevelopment plans
Plans previously approved in 2021
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Contractors appointed for £3.2bn social housing maintenance scheme
85% of the contractors selected are small and medium enterprises
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Regal London working on plans for 1,600-home tower scheme opposite O2 Arena
Howells masterplaning seven-block scheme ahead of planning submission this spring
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Gove criticises Midland Heart for suspending chair following comments about Hamas
Housing secretary demands “urgent explanation” over housing association’s suspension of Ian Austin as former housing minister doubles down on comments
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Flagship reports 38% increase in turnover
32,000-home housing association reports 31% increase in affordable homes development
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Taylor Wimpey, Berkeley and Gleeson bosses call for stamp duty cut
Housebuilders call on Hunt to act ahead of 6 March Spring Budget
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Government to create mandatory national register of short-term lets
The measure is part of the government’s long-term plan for housing, aimed at implementing stricter regulations for short-term lets
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DLUHC says it is working on ‘managed transition’ to new building control regime amid crisis fears
But government does not confirm backing for six-month postponement of deadline amid mounting concern about a collapse in building control services
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Building control chief warns of chaos to council services if competence rules are enforced from April
LABC boss tells government new rules requiring inspectors to be registered and certified should be postponed for six months
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L&Q and Countryside to deliver almost 4,000 homes at former Ford factory site
With the addition of 947 homes, the revised plans for Beam Park will now deliver 3,947 new homes
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South-west housing association hires former UCL boss
Plymouth Community Homes has appointed Tracy Smith as executive director of homes and communities
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Only one in six councils are using rural exception sites to boost social housing supply
Rural exception sites allow land for housing developments to be provided at below market value
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Largest timber development in the UK receives planning approval
Human Nature and Periscope win planning for 685-home Lewes masterplan
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Review regulations on housebuilders as ‘all sites under pressure’ says Weston Homes founder
Bob Weston says green regulations are adding 20% to build costs as housebuilder pulls 1,100-home scheme
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Housing associations’ interest cover falls to lowest level since the recession, warns RSH
The costs incurred per social housing increased by 14% due to high inflation and supply chain pressures
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Gleeson profit falls 55% as sales drop
Housebuilder says “difficult conditions” have hit income
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Peabody’s Holloway Prison site scheme redesigned for third time to add second staircases
Practice sent back to the drawing board to amend Peabody’s 1,000-home redevelopment at former Holloway Prison site