Lipton enters housebuilding to break ‘system that is bust’

By Dave Rogers2018-11-23T06:00:00

Source: Tom Campbell

Developer Sir Stuart Lipton lays into ‘shameful’ housebuilders and says he plans to stir up competition

Veteran developer Sir Stuart Lipton has said he will launch a housing business next year in order to shake up an industry that he says is in “crisis” and builds “shocking” homes.

Lipton told Building that Lipton Rogers, the developer he set up with long-time partner Peter Rogers five years ago, will team up with mixed-use developer First Base, run by Lipton’s son Elliot, to build homes on brownfield sites in and around London.

“If people had better homes, they wouldn’t be going around knifing people”

Stuart Lipton

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