Jon Neale

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    Garden Cities: Learning from the regions

    2012-10-04T11:51:00

    Politicians discussing garden suburbs and cities at next week’s Conservative conference would do well to look further than London and Hertfordshire

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    New housing measures: The right direction?

    2012-09-07T11:10:00

    The housing measures could benefit from less focus on the planning system and more on affordable housing

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    Whatever happened to localism?

    2011-07-29T11:27:00

    The draft National Planning Policy Framework may give the planning system the “teeth” developers have been looking for

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    Town and country

    2011-04-07T11:32:00

    Protecting the green belt from redevlopment is not the same as protecting the English countryside. If we work sustainably, we can create a better, greener future

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    Localism: A recipe for building homes in the wrong places

    2011-02-18T11:56:00

    Real powers will help economic growth, but limited localism could just further seal off leafy suburbs to development

  • Jon Neale
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    Housebuilding needs to learn the lessons of the 1930s

    2011-01-27T14:15:00

    In the 1930s we built around 300,000 homes a year in the face of a worldwide recession. Why are things so different this time around?

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    There's still room for flats

    2009-09-25T00:00:00

    The trend for smaller and smaller urban flats wasn’t the answer to the UK’s housing needs, but then, neither is a return to just building traditional family homes

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    Forever blowing bubbles

    2009-08-07T00:00:00

    Jon Neale is concerned that everyone seems to think a big building programme will prevent boom and bust. The evidence suggests otherwise

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    Right at home

    2009-06-12T00:00:00

    Now that the Conservative party is ambling to victory at the next election victory, it has much more freedom to develop housing policy. Jon Neale looks at what it’s likely to be

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    Please sir, can we have some more?

    2009-05-08T00:00:00

    Of course the Budget didn’t give us as much as we wanted. But, says Jon Neale, it’s questionable whether even more cash would help housebuilders. What we want more of is fresh thinking

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    Planning review: Teaching tortoise to gallop

    2008-05-16T00:00:00

    The latest planning review aims to ‘weed out bureaucratic hurdles’. Jon Neale asked senior figures at every stage of the planning process to tell us exactly what is going wrong

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    Housebuilders' salary survey: Money or your life

    2008-04-25T00:00:00

    With the big bucks of the private housebuilding sector less forthcoming than they were six months ago, many people are beginning to notice the better work-life balance offered by registered social landlords. Jon Neale reports on the findings of Building’s second annual housebuilders’ salary survey

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    The housebuilder’s plan - City lofts

    2008-04-11T00:00:00

    Our company profiles continue with a developer that is attempting to cope with the drop in sales of city-centre flats in northern England. Jon Neale takes a look around

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    The housebuilder’s plan McCarthy & Stone

    2008-02-15T00:00:00

    In the first of a series of company profiles, Jon Neale opens