Joey Gardiner
Joey Gardiner is contributing editor at Housing Today and Building magazine.
Formerly deputy editor at Building magazine, Joey has worked as a journalist in the sector for nearly two decades.
He currently has a special focus on the Housing Today publication, helping it deliver razor sharp news, analysis and insight.
Contact info
- Tel:
- 07825 106864
- Email:
- joey@joeygardiner.com
NewsFormer Mace boss joins Taylor Wimpey board
Appointment comes amid build cost rises and after pressure from activist investor to ‘enhance’ non-executive team
- News
Government reveals data behind £4bn fire safety repair bill claim
Claim based on desk-based survey of 2,856 buildings, with a quarter of bill to remediate social housing sector homes
- Features
Nutrient pollution: a developing problem with no solution in sight
A legal requirement that new homes do not pollute wetlands, rivers and nature reserves has halted developments across large parts of England
- Comment
The anti-developers have won as government signals full retreat on planning
We have come a very long way indeed from the planning white paper set out by Robert Jenrick in August 2020, writes Joey Gardiner
- News
New infrastructure tax to be levied on schemes’ gross development value
Details of proposed Infrastructure Levy emerge as government publishes Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
- News
Queen’s Speech 2022: environmental assessment shake-up included in planning reforms
Reforms included as part of levelling up agenda but no space in Queen’s Speech for stand-alone Planning Bill
- News
Barratt boss hits out at Gove’s £3bn levy plan
David Thomas brands cladding levy unfair, unjust and disproportionate
- Features
Whatever happened to those radical planning reforms?
It was meant to be a planning revolution that generations of politicians had ducked. Then (almost) everything changed
- News
Housebuilders hit back over £3bn levy plan
HBF says levy ‘unacceptable’ while fears voice over impact on ’innocent’ SME builders
- News
Gove announces plan for £3bn developer levy
Plan revealed as housing secretary says 35 housebuilders now signed up to cladding pledge
- News
Countryside to cut staff and rethink MMC strategy
Boss of partnerships housebuilder blames poor performance on too rapid expansion and modular facilities
- News
Persimmon the next housebuilder to sign up to Gove cladding deal
Firm confirms ‘developer pledge’ will see housebuilders repair blocks going back 30 years
- News
Crest Nicholson signs Gove’s ‘building safety pledge’ to fix tower blocks
Housebuilder first to confirm it will ink agreement and estimates cost will be up to £120m
- News
Housebuilders and Gove close to deal on cladding repairs
Negotiators are finalising text of pledge to remediate unsafe housing blocks but issue of funding for “orphan” buildings remains unresolved
- News
London mayor gives Bishopsgate Goodsyard scheme green light
Drastically revised 500-home Ballymore and Hammerson project given green light
- News
Industry calls for more action on promised retrofit programme
Chancellor’s energy efficiency VAT cut welcomed but more investment needed to improve homes, argue sector bodies
- Features
The true cost of Gove’s new cladding policy on the housing sector
Michael Gove’s announcement that housebuilders will foot the £4bn cladding repair bill sparked a share price nosedive. Is the City overreacting?
- News
Government shares moral responsibility for fire safety clean-up, says Taylor Wimpey boss
Pete Redfern claims Grenfell Inquiry proceedings reveal role of government as negotiations with housebuilders over £4bn cladding bill continue
- News
Persimmon boss expects housebuilders will have to pay safety levy
Dean Finch says new charge most likely outcome of negotiations with government over cladding costs
