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
FeaturesThere’s a major blockage in the housing pipeline – and it looks likely to get much worse
A growing number of water companies are objecting to planning applications on the basis that there is not enough local sewage treatment capacity to cope with the new homes required, Joey Gardiner reports
FeaturesCould the shadow of Grenfell trigger more Ardmore-style collapses?
The 50-year-old contractor’s legacy housing business went into administration last month 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
NewsBuilding Safety Act’s three-decade liability hike sent Ardmore company under, firm says
Group director says legislation ‘significantly increased’ exposure at Ardmore Construction which went into administration last month
NewsBuilding calls for expanded public private partnerships programme
A forthcoming report from Building’s Funding the Future campaign will urge the government to significantly expand its proposed public private partnership programmes beyond healthcare facilities and decarbonisation projects.
CommentLabour must rethink private finance for infrastructure projects
Seven years after PFI was scrapped, the Labour government is being forced to reconsider private finance for infrastructure as it grapples with empty public coffers and ambitious construction targets.
FeaturesPipe dreams: Why the infrastructure pipeline must improve if construction is to benefit
The launch of the infrastructure pipeline last month was hailed as a gamechanger for UK construction and investment in private finance for public infrastructure. But Joey Gardiner discovers there are serious fears that it won’t live up to the hype
NewsGovernment publishes £530bn Infrastructure Pipeline
Treasury chief secretary Darren Jones says pipeline of 780 private and public sector projects will give industry the confidence to invest
FeaturesHow the Treasury’s new social infrastructure PPP model will work
The infrastructure strategy has proposed allowing a form of PFI to be used in limited circumstances including healthcare centres for the first time since 2018 – but not yet revealed what the structure will be. Joey Gardiner considers the options
CommentThe infrastructure strategy opens the door to private finance
Last week’s infrastructure strategy put off a final decision about using private finance for social infrastructure until the autumn. But, Joey Gardiner writes, it has still set out an important principle that such schemes are not entirely off-limits
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NewsConstruction industry ‘not in a fit state’ to deliver HS2, says official review author
James Stewart tells Building government needs to ‘proactively’ build capacity in the sector to avoid repeat of HS2 failures
FeaturesWhy the government is looking to the Thames Tideway project for ways to fund £14.2bn Sizewell C
The private financing model known as RAB is to be used to raise cash for the new nuclear power station, reservoirs and the Lower Thames Crossing. Joey Gardiner looks at lessons learnt on the Thames Tideway project to find out why RAB is now all the rage
FeaturesWhat will the infrastructure strategy say about private finance?
As well as setting departmental capital budgets for rest of the parliament, this month’s spending review will also be followed by a long-awaited infrastructure strategy that will determine the future of private finance on public projects. Joey Gardiner reads the tea leaves
FeaturesPFI: Do the numbers add up?
With the government understood to be considering reinstating a form of private financing to pay for public infrastructure ahead of the launch of its 10-Year Infrastructure Strategy next month, Joey Gardiner weighs up whether reigniting PFI would be a good idea
FeaturesIs PFI about to stage a comeback?
As part of Building’s new Funding the Future series, Joey Gardiner considers the chances of an unlikely renaissance for the much-maligned initiative
FeaturesIt’s deja vu all over again: Can the Ox-Cam Arc work second time around?
The chancellor has given her backing to an expansion plan for the corridor connecting Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge, including thousands of homes, which the previous government dropped. Joey Gardiner asks what hope the industry can have
NewsFewer than one in four high-rise resi projects have got gateway 3 final safety stage sign-off
Just seven schemes out of 40 applications received last year get green light from regulator
FeaturesWhat the delays at the Building Safety Regulator mean for high-rise development
The new system of gateway checks on high rise buildings is adding anything up to 18 months to construction programmes. Joey Gardiner finds out why
NewsHigh-rise decision delays caused by outsourced delivery model, says safety regulator
Verdicts on whether schemes get green light now taking average of 22 weeks – nearly double original 12 weeks target
FeaturesThe 1.5 million-home question: Does the government’s planning reform programme add up?
Ministers unleashed a barrage of planning reforms in the dying days of 2024. Joey Gardiner asks if these can give the industry the boost it needs to get anywhere close to the government’s ambitious housebuilding target?