Jon Neale
CommentGarden Cities: Learning from the regions
Politicians discussing garden suburbs and cities at next week’s Conservative conference would do well to look further than London and Hertfordshire
CommentNew housing measures: The right direction?
The housing measures could benefit from less focus on the planning system and more on affordable housing
NewsWhatever happened to localism?
The draft National Planning Policy Framework may give the planning system the “teeth” developers have been looking for
CommentTown and country
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
CommentLocalism: A recipe for building homes in the wrong places
Real powers will help economic growth, but limited localism could just further seal off leafy suburbs to development
CommentHousebuilding needs to learn the lessons of the 1930s
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?
NewsThere's still room for flats
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
NewsForever blowing bubbles
Jon Neale is concerned that everyone seems to think a big building programme will prevent boom and bust. The evidence suggests otherwise
NewsRight at home
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
NewsPlease sir, can we have some more?
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
NewsPlanning review: Teaching tortoise to gallop
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
NewsHousebuilders' salary survey: Money or your life
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
NewsThe housebuilder’s plan - City lofts
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
NewsThe housebuilder’s plan McCarthy & Stone
In the first of a series of company profiles, Jon Neale opens