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
L&Q appoints former Co-op Bank boss as group chair
Housing association giant also recruits former Orbit COO to board
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Rent policy changes put 300,000 social homes at risk of becoming unsustainable, warns G15
Inequalities to social rents have cost London’s largest housing associations more than £2bn, housing association group says
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Bromford maintains steady delivery level in face of cost challenges
Midlands-based association completes 1,191 homes as it pursues land-led approach to development
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DLUHC wins landmark legal case against freeholder over building safety delays
First case brought using new Building Safety Act remediation order powers
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L&Q reports trebling of surplus – but this could be reduced by impairment charges
Housing association giant reports earnings set for hit due to ’development defects and prolonged inflation’
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Exclusive: Clarion announces ‘ambitious’ restructure to improve housing management
UK’s largest housing association will overhaul services in a bid to become “the best social landlord”, chief executive Clare Miller writes in Housing Today article.
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CIH and NHF publish 12 ‘guiding principles’ for repairs and maintenance
Cross-sector working group set up by sector bodies produces principles and shares case studies
- News
Elphicke hits out at government’s failure to build 300,000 homes a year as she defects to Labour
Housing finance expert and MP for Dover crosses the Commons floor
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MD to depart modular developer TopHat under cost-cutting plan
Andrew Shepherd announces departure
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Aster misses development target as capacity ‘plateaus’
Southern landlord latest to reveal lower completions than hoped for in 2023/24
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Regulatory fees for large housing associations to rise by more than 70%
Regulator of Social Housing confirms fee increase from July to pay for new regulatory regime
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Kate Barker-led housing commission issues call for evidence
Commission launched by thinktank Radix and law firm Shoosmiths wants submissions from experts in the planning, development and housing sectors
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Great Places promotes Alison Dean to chief executive role
Current deputy CEO will succeed Matt Harrison on 1 July
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Sector bodies sign TCPA’s ‘healthy homes pledge’
Chartered Institute of Housing, the Royal Institute of British Architects and Wates are among the organisations signed up
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Government must increase social rented housing delivery to 90,000 homes a 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
- News
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