All Housing Today articles in September 2019
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News
Electricians’ body warns country risks another Grenfell
Undertrained workers risk making errors when installing vital equipment in residential buildings
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News
Housing Forum publishes MMC ‘How to’ guide
New document identifies and challenges commonly-held assumptions made about the technology
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Investor’s money won’t buy offsite success, warns expert
Helpful as investment cash is, it won’t guarantee great outcomes, says Total Flow’s Tim Hall
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Grosvenor increases affordable housing on £500m scheme
Developer increases proportion of affordable homes from 27% to 35%
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Regional brownfield sites could unlock nearly 400,000 homes
Vacant lots across England could cover 75% of the country’s housing need, new research argues
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Comment
On the quality trail
Our new columnist Ben Derbyshire believes construction’s culture needs to change
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News
RTPI urges major infrastructure planning shakeup
Without an integrated strategy for planning it will be “impossible to meet the challenges of climate change, population growth and environmental risks over the coming decades”
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Private sector homes registrations fall by a fifth
Increase in number of affordable and rented homes fails to offset decline elsewhere
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Government’s housing policies ‘risk undermining Northern powerhouse efforts’
Covert housing targets will go against the north, says housing association boss
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Designer beefs up housing numbers in regen re-jig
Practice submits beefed-up proposals for key phase of South Kilburn transformation
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McCarthy & Stone starts work on £32m retirement housing scheme
Development in Thatcham will feature 92 apartments
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CPD
CPD 17 2019: Natural slate
This CPD, sponsored by Cupa Pizarras, examines the strengths of this ubiquitous material and its suitability for roofing and cladding purposes
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News
Shadow housing secretary pledges to release cut-price public land if Labour elected
John Healey outlines plans to set up an English Sovereign Land Trust
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Landowners ‘don’t pocket huge sums’ when selling, says housebuilder
Crest Nicholson exec said the likelihood of farmers trousering £1m per acre is “an illusion”
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Comment
International money is flowing into affordable housing — but is it helping increase supply?
An investigative film into the financialisation of housing asks questions of the UK market
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News
£40m Stevenage housebuilding job up for grabs
Builder sought for 236-home scheme, which is expected to take four years to complete
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Aster commits to building 2,800 new shared ownership homes
Housing association says it will be managing 5,000 such homes by 2024
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US real estate giant invests £1bn in UK student accommodation
Chicago-based CA Ventures funds construction of student living schemes in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Sheffield