Housing Delivery

Housing Forum appoints placemaking expert Alex Notay as chief executive

Membership body announces successor to long-time boss Shelagh Grant

Almost all homes fitted with external insulation under Conservative governments’ retrofit schemes need repair work, report finds

National Audit Office survey uncovers litany of failures on two energy efficiency schemes including widespread suspected fraud

Housing must be delivered locally and councils need the tools to do it

Research from Key Cities has found financial constraints and land availability - not planning - are the main barriers to delivering homes. Michael Mordey argues we need to empower local authorities to boost delivery

University of Cambridge submits masterplan for next phases of 5,600-home Eddington scheme

Outline plan lodged for up to 3,800 additional homes and 50ha of open space

Citizen vows to learn from contractor insolvencies as completions impacted

Housing association puts in place ‘live monitoring of contractor risk’ after undershooting development target

Plans being drawn up for 22-storey student accommodation tower on former London Met School of Architecture site

Mixed-use scheme would add new education space to school site formerly known as The Cass

Annual house price growth falls to lowest level for 18 months

Commentators point to pre-budget hesitancy

Scaling affordable housing: how do we bring innovation and new capital together?

Traditional funding routes are increasingly looking unviable. Without new funding sources and smarter delivery models, development pipelines will stall, argues Ben Denton

Bromford Flagship and LiveWest enter merger talks to create 120,000-home group

Pair discussing creating £900m-turnover organisation in drive to build 50,000 homes over 15 years

Taylor Wimpey on track to hit completions target despite drop in sales rate

Housebuilder seeking to increase completions to 14,000 a year in the “medium-term”

‘Not good enough’ - MHCLG takes aim at RPs for not buying enough section 106 units

HBF estimates 8,500 homes due in the next 12 months are at risk of not being built or standing empty because of lack of a contract with a registered provider

‘Bulk of reform has been done’ - Pennycook warns housing developers against ‘holding back’ for more

Pennycook says results of numerous consultation to be revealed in coming months

Birmingham Council selects Lovell to deliver 3,500-home Druids Heath scheme

Over half the homes will be for affordable housing

Now is not the time to panic about low planning approvals

As poor statistics continue to roll in Reed and Pennycook must hold their nerve, stick to their plan and be patient, argues Paul Smith

Notting Hill Genesis undershoots completions target as four schemes slip

Audited figures confirm £130m deficit as CEO Patrick Franco says he’s proud of colleagues working to turn non-compliant landlord around

Greensquare Accord puts loss-making offsite manufacturing business up for sale

25,000-home landlord seeks buyer as it reports overall deficit for 2024/25

Could the shadow of Grenfell trigger more Ardmore-style collapses of housing contractors?

The contractor’s legacy housing business went into administration due to the weight of building safety issues on its books. Joey Gardiner asks whether we are likely to see other companies suffer the same fate

A2 Dominion returns to surplus after £100m sale of stock to Westminster Council

G15 landlord exceeds completions target but did not start any homes on site in 2024/25 in line with shift to focus on stock improvements

Vistry and L&Q secure first gateway 2 approvals after 13-month wait

‘Major milestone’ as two buildings signed off for 300-home scheme in west London

Housing delivery in London in ‘major crisis’ warns HBF as multiple indicators show slowdown

Trade body warns ministers to act urgently as starts, permissions and energy performance certificates all show downturn