News – Page 155
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NewsGovernment spends £8m to chase high-rise property owners over fire safety works
Funding to go to local authority enforcment teams largely in London, Birmingham and Manchester
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NewsGove rips up compromises on cladding pledge contract
Housebuilders set for confrontation with housing secretary over legal wording underpinning £2bn cladding pledge
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NewsBerkeley to cut back on development sites as costs bite
Housebuilder warns of ‘inevitable’ drop in new supply in housing in London and the South east
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NewsMP says housing targets should specify affordable numbers
Public Accounts Committee chair speaks out in wake of controversy over watering down of central targets
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NewsRedrow appoints G15 boss Nanda to its board
Metropolitan Thames Valley chief executive joins board of £2bn-turnover housebuilder
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NewsFor profit provider fails regulatory standard
RSH says Auxesia Homes has become the first ever ‘for profit’ landlord to have breached viability and governance tests
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NewsFirefighter chiefs call for tighter rules on modular and engineered timber construction
The National Fire Chiefs Councils says it has particular concern over use of offsite techniques in high rises
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NewsTelford ranked ‘most sustainable’ housebuilder
Annual Next Generation report says London-focused build to rent developer UK’s greenest for third year running
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NewsDominvs JV plans 1,000-bed Manchester student tower
Whitbread and Dominvs Group have put in proposals to redevelop a Premier Inn site
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NewsWarning of ‘complete collapse’ in local plan-making after Gove reform announcement
Developer groups fear the government has “given up” on housing delivery despite asserted support for 300,000-home target
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NewsFormer Galliard Homes boss named Inland Homes CEO
Don O’Sullivan joins to lead a strategic review of troubled regeneration specialist
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NewsHouse prices see biggest fall in 14 years in November
Halifax reports the average price of a house in the UK fell by 2.3%
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NewsGovernment to fall 32,000 affordable homes short of target
MPs call for action after forecast shows large shortfall in Affordable Homes Programme numbers
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NewsGove to water down local housing targets following backbench pressure
DLUHC announces changes to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill which would give councils more flexibility to depart from housing delivery numbers following pressure from MPs.
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NewsIlke Homes raises £100m in equity investment
The modular housebuilder plans to invest heavily in automating more of its manufacturing processes and increase its output to 4,000 homes a year
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NewsCompetition watchdog ready to start sector probe from January after Gove call
CMA considering Gove’s call for recommendations to improve “effectiveness” of housebuilding industry
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NewsHousebuilding growth flatlines amid economic gloom
Purchasing managers report no growth in November as confidence nosedives to pandemic lows
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NewsFormer Berkeley exec to join Dominvs Group
Sean Ellis will advise Dominvs in non-exec board role
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NewsLow carbon housing schemes held back by false cost fears
Five-year government-funded study says sustainable development need not be expensive
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NewsHelp to Buy build deadline ‘extended’
Homes England says it will not enforce December 31 practical completion deadline but March end date remains