All Housing Today articles in August 2024
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SponsoredEnsuring rainscreen designs translate to real performance
Recent years have seen a significant tightening in Building Regulation guidance. Increasing demand for improved energy efficiency and safety makes it crucial for rainscreen designs to translate into real, ‘as-built’ performance. Bridging the gap between theoretical design and real performance can be challenging but there are measures developers can take ...
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Housing Boardroom: Data
Finance Tracker Report: Think positive
Q3 2024: Housing Today Boardroom’s annual Finance Tracker finds development directors increasingly confident that the borrowing environment is on the up – and a mix of hope and expectation that government will deliver a CPI+1% long-term rent settlement and improved grant rates to kick-start delivery.
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Housing Boardroom: DataQuarterly Tracker Report: ‘Fund us to deliver’
Q3 2024: The prospect of an improved rent settlement is front and centre for housing association development directors ahead of the new government’s first Budget, finds the latest Housing Today Boardroom Barometer.
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Housing Boardroom: DataComment: The country needs us
The sector wants to keep delivering homes, so let’s hope that the Chancellor uses her speech to unlock stalled development, says SNG’s Chief Investment and Development Officer, Tom Titherington.
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Housing Boardroom: DataComment: Pivotal Point
The affordable housing sector is ready and willing to deliver new homes; is government ready to step up with the funds, asks Helen Moore, Group Director of Orbit Homes.
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Housing Boardroom: DataComment: Government holds the key
An improved outlook for inflation and interest rates isn’t enough to support sufficient affordable housing delivery, argues Platform’s Gerraint Oakley – government intervention and funds are needed to address the shortage.
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Housing Boardroom: DataFinance Tracker: Dashboard
What are the key trends for finance and investment for the housing development sector in 2024/25? The Boardroom Barometer Finance Tracker dashdoard provides an annual snapshot of the experiences of our panel of housing association development directors.
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NewsFitch downgrades five housing association credit ratings
Further two have outlook changed to ‘negative’
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CommentBuilding 1.5 million homes: how do we ensure quality of life in the government’s housing drive?
As ministers seek to increase housebuilding they must remember that rapid construction without planning for sustainability and wellbeing leads to poor outcomes, writes Matthew Morgan
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NewsLack of clarity over grey belt definition will lead to ‘confusion’ and legal challenges, Lords told
Policy criticised as committee opens short inquiry into policy
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NewsPlaces for People appoints new managing director for developments
Andrew Usher has been promoted from development director to managing director for developments
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NewsBarratt Redrow anticipates closure of nine divisions as part of integration programme
Housebuilder issues first trading update since merger approved
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NewsCouncils urge chancellor to take ‘immediate action’ as one in four councils risk needing bailouts
LGA says Budget must provide councils with financial stability to protect the services
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In Focus‘Being the only girl doesn’t bother me’: My work as a heating and plumbing apprentice at Progress Housing Group
In the latest in our Frontline Stories series, the 21-year-old speaks to Alex Funk about being a young female in a male-dominated industry, finding out she has dyslexia and ADHD, and getting her driver’s license
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NewsHomes England ‘supporting’ TopHat amid wind-down reports
Firm understood to be winding down its volumetric operations
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NewsSutton council picks development partner for 740-home town centre regeneration
Several sites to be redeveloped in second phase of project
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NewsGovernment should create cross-departmental housing delivery unit, says report
Housing commission, originally chaired by Kate Barker, calls for ‘cold cash’ to subsidise social rent homes
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NewsPennycook commits to new consumer code for housebuilders in CMA response
More work needed to address ‘fleeceholds’, government says
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NewsWest Midlands Combined Authority agrees affordable housebuilding partnership with five housing associations
The region’s mayor has pledged to build 20,000 new social homes by the end of the decade
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CommentThe new government must allow developers to build upwards too
Keir Starmer’s government has made a good start now it must look at enabling liberal densification, writes Paul Smith