All Policy articles – Page 48
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NewsTaylor Wimpey boss says government shares ‘moral’ responsibility for fire safety clean-up
Pete Redfern says Grenfell Inquiry proceedings show role of government as negotiations over £4bn cladding bill continue
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CommentThe end of the planning bill is nigh – but what does it mean for housing development?
The widely expected dropping of the government’s planning legislation will make it harder to build 300,000 homes a year, warns Colin Brown
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NewsGovernment considered replacing building control with insurance, Grenfell Inquiry hears
Radical measure was one option presented to ministers as part of drive to cut red tape
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NewsPersimmon CEO says he expects new fire safety levy
Dean Finch says new charge most likely outcome of negotiations with government over cladding costs
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News‘Draconian’ building safety measures step closer after being agreed by Lords committee
Powers to prohibit house builders developing schemes agreed despite HBF compromise offer
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NewsFormer official denies government ‘covered up’ cladding test failures
Disastrous 2001 test results on cladding panels used on Grenfell were not made public until this year
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NewsSurveyors warned to review anti-money laundering policies following Russia sanctions
RICS recommends firms adopt ‘extremely careful’ due diligence checks
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NewsGovernment 'must find extra £14bn of annual affordable housing subsidy'
Study by L&G and BPF says private money and expansion of ‘for profit’ providers also needed to boost supply
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CommentThe government’s plan for tackling fuel poverty is short-sighted
We have the coldest and leakiest homes in Europe, but the long-term solutions have been known for decades, writes Chris Brown
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NewsHousebuilders offer compromise deal to Gove on cladding costs
HBF says members would agree to carry out critical works on own buildings and hand back Building Safety Fund cash
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NewsBuilding Safety Bill changes would drive SMEs out of housing development market, CIC warns
Concern grows that extension of limitation period to 30 years could hit insurance availability and damage levelling up ambitions
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CommentThe latest housing delivery test figures show our planning system isn’t working
Annual government figures showing homes delivered by local authority reveal some of the key barriers to delivery and it is time for change, argues Paul Smith
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NewsGetting overseas firms to pay for cladding costs ‘practically difficult’, Gove admits
Housing secretary says ministers may lack ‘total authority’ to force non-UK based firms to pay into £4bn remediation fund
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News‘Few housebuilders have built much over 11 metres in height’, HBF tells MPs
Trade body believes housebuilders are being unfairly targeted by Gove
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In FocusBuilding safety row explained: is Gove really going to shut down housebuilders?
Housebuilders are locked in negotiations after Michael Gove threatened to shut them down unless they pay £4bn to repair housing blocks affected by the fire safety crisis. Joey Gardiner assesses what is at stake
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NewsGove ‘ditches’ Ox-Cam Arc project
Local authority boss says department has said it does not want to take million-home project forward
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NewsHelp to Buy drop off worse in north of England: full impact of new rules revealed
Extra data supplied to Housing Today reveals regional impact of changes to Help to Buy rules
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NewsUse of EWS1 forms rose after Jenrick announced their ‘scrapping’
Latest official data shows the fire safety assessments needed on more than a quarter of mid-rise flat valuations
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NewsHousing associations back Gove’s cladding plan despite housebuilder fears
G15 and NHF back measures branded ‘draconian’ and ‘inequitable’ by housebuilders