All Housing articles – Page 6
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Features‘This is a growth story’… How Network Rail plans to become one of the UK’s biggest housebuilders
The transport operator’s group property director talks about the ‘new mindset’ at Network Rail – and why the country’s biggest owner of brownfield land is taking an assertive role in redevelopment projects on its sites
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NewsGovernment targets new homes around commuter hubs
Reeves and Rayner pledge default approval for schemes with ‘high housing potential’ such as sites near train stations
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NewsWatkin Jones slashes losses to £300k after turbulent 18 months
Developer buoyed by increased profit from student housing schemes
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NewsMake Architects’ Paddington student accommodation scheme refused for the second time
Proposals would have included replacement Travis Perkins branch
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NewsPersimmon spent £60m on building safety remediation last year
Housebuilder has now spent £120m on safety works with 30% of remediation jobs still yet to start
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NewsDeveloper rethinks Canada Water scheme amid London office market slump
Plans for 26-storey tower and neighbouring block switched to student accomodation and housing
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Features‘Frankly, what’s the alternative?’ Turley’s Stephen Bell applauds the government’s planning vision
The chief executive of one of the UK’s largest planning consultants speaks to Tom Lowe about the implications of Labour’s final revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework and what needs to be done to achieve 1.5 million homes by the end of this parliament
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CommentSexual harassment at work: employers’ new duties
Ashley Scriven explains changes in the employer’s duty to protect employees from sexual harassment
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CommentAct now and make the new year a time of real change
Bold leadership, greater diversity, a circular approach and a focus on cracking the housing crisis are on my wishlist for 2025, writes Ellie Jenkins of Akerlof
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CommentThe new NPPF: the time for waiting is over
There is much to like in the updated planning guidance but ministers should demand that new housing targets are delivered sooner rather than later, writes Paul Smith
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NewsNPPF: Government drops 50% affordable housing requirement for grey belt sites
Labour yields to key housebuilder ask as it launches NPPF with 370,000-home mandatory housing target
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NewsVistry and London Legacy Development Corporation launch Stratford housing joint venture
Pudding Mill Lane 948-home development will be 45% affordable
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NewsFormer boss of Wates Residential to return in regional role after collapse of business venture
Paul Nicholls named new London regional lead a year after firm which he left to set up went into liquidation
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CommentHow can we make Henry Ford-style housebuilding work?
Nick Pinder, Mariya Rankin and Magdalena Prus explore the contractual and regulatory implications of a cookie-cutter approach to housebuilding
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NewsGovernment commits to fixing cladding on high-rises by end of 2029
Nearly 30 developers commit to doubling speed of remediation
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NewsIn pictures: Phones 4u founder tops out £2bn luxury Mayfair housing development
Mace construction manager on scheme featuring homes with prices starting at £35m
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NewsTaylor Wimpey recruits former Marshalls boss to its board
Martyn Coffey set to join as Humphrey Singer stands down
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CommentJohn Prescott’s impact on the built environment should never be forgotten
Former English Partnerships chair and crossbench peer Margaret Ford pays tribute to the the former deputy prime minister, who died last week
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NewsDecision to scrap government design advisor Office for Place a ‘mistake’, says Nicholas Boys Smith
Body’s interim chair said move risks ministers “marking their own homework” on housing design
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NewsRayner intervenes over 8,400-home scheme in Kent opposed by local council
Planning officers had recommended refusal for Milton Studio-designed scheme due to “urbanising impact”