Carl Brown
Carl Brown is head of content at Building, Housing Today and Building Design.
He helps to shape the news, insight and analysis across all three titles.
He has many years of experience writing about the housing development market.
Contact info
- Tel:
- 07947 251 424
- Email:
- carl.brown@assemblemediagroup.co.uk
- News
Government must increase social rented housing delivery to 90,000 homes year, say MPs
Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee calls for ministers to set and publish target for social rented homes
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Triumphant Parker eyeing 20,000 extra homes after defeating Street in West Midlands mayoral election
Former PWC director is promising more social housing, a mass insulation scheme and private rented sector regulation
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Turnover and surplus up at Home Group in first nine months of the year
But completions ‘behind expectation” due to delays and supply chain challenges
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Platform Housing Group hails ‘record-breaking’ amount of starts
48,000-home housing association increases completions by 25% but misses original target
- Comment
It’s time to make sure Every Person Counts in housing
Faced with unprecedented challenges and competing priorities, people working in the housing sector are feeling the pressure. Housing Today is inviting you to share best practice on skills, news ways of working, regulatory compliance and much more, writes Carl Brown
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Clarion full-year completions fall 24%
Housing association giant takes a more “cautious” approach to new build as it undershoots original development target by 600 homes
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Bristol Council’s developer and Hill Group get green light for 166-home harbourside scheme
Scheme approved despite concerns over flood risk
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Sovereign Network Group’s Titherington to stand down
Well-known housing veteran says SNG role is his ‘last big job’ after career spanning several decades.
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Review ordered by Ombudsman makes 15 recommendations to Orbit Group to tackle damp and mould
Watchdog had found seven cases of maladministration by the 46,000-home association
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Notting Hill Genesis to post deficit after identifying £110m in one-off costs
Building safety liabilities and asset impairments will put housing association giant in the red in 2023/24
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Taylor Wimpey on track to hit completions goal amid ‘market stability’
Spring selling season “as expected” says housebuilding giant
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Housing Forum calls for end of Right to Buy for new build homes
Membership body says policy in its current form reduces councils’ appetite to develop
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Government to confirm lowered Affordable Homes Programme delivery target ‘shortly’
Revised target for £11.5bn programme will be announced after government admitted it won’t hit 180,000 homes
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Blackrock-backed Heylo increases turnover by 25% in face of regulatory difficulties
Non-compliant for-profit posts revenue of £27.5m.
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Tributes paid to ‘utterly inspiring’ former CIH president following death
Steve Benson passed away on Sunday following a battle with cancer
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Annual house price growth slows to 0.3%, says Halifax
First monthly drop in prices for six months reported
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Long-awaited guidance on second staircases published
Evacuation lifts are not an absolute requirement, technical guidance reveals
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Shared ownership ‘failing to deliver an affordable route to homeownership’ MPs warn
Levelling Up and Housing committee calls for reform to the tenure
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Rent controls and homelessness duties outlined in new Scottish Housing Bill
The Scottish government introduces landmark legislation
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Riverside upgraded and Muir Group downgraded in latest regulatory judgements
Regulator of Social Housing finds Riverside is ‘able to control’ its organisation after merger with One Housing Group