All articles by Carl Brown – Page 7
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L&G partners with Dutch pension firm PGGM and Nest in £1bn build-to-rent plan
Thousands of rental homes planned
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Hightown boss David Bogle to stand down after 30 years
Bogle was also instrumental in setting up Homes for Cathy group
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Contracting giant in £7.7m payment dispute with Home Group set to go into administration
A contractor that took Home Group to court over a £7.7m payment dispute is set to enter administration. ISG, a £2bn-turnover construction, fit-out and engineering firm, has announced it will file for administration after attempts to find a buyer for the business failed. The company earlier this ...
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Rochdale Boroughwide Housing signs off recovery plan launched following death of Awaab Ishak
Chief executive Amanda Newton tells Housing Today Live ‘We are in a much better place now’ and is aiming to return to regulatory compliance
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Turnover and surplus up at Onward Homes
North-west housing association increases shared ownership sales income
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Scottish Housing Regulator proposes three new damp and mould performance indicators for social landlords
Regulator consulting on several changes to the ARC indicators
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Springfield reports sharp drop in completions and profit
Scottish housebuilder cites subdued homebuyer demand and reduced affordable housing activity as profit plummets 37%
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Peabody turnover down 11% due to reduced sales and site delays
Landlords scales back development and invests more in improving existing stock as it shifts to neighbourhood model
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Consider allowing developers to pay for faster planning decisions, says Tony Blair Institute report
Report also calls for replacement of section 106 mechanism
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Further 7,000 residential buildings outside official statistics could be unsafe, warns minister
Rushanara Ali says those responsible for thousands of buildings have yet to apply to cladding safety scheme to fix defects
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East London housing association appoints former HACT MD as chair
EastendHomes has announced Jacqui Bateson as its new chair.
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Yorkshire housing providers consider setting minimum quality standard for section 106 homes
Nick Atkin says housing associations fear having to retrofit new homes if they are not built to a high enough quality by housebuilders
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House of Lords committee launches inquiry into government’s ‘grey belt’ plans
Peers will examine Labour’s ‘golden rules’ for development on the green belt
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Barratt, Homes England and Lloyds form JV to build out sites of up to 10,000 homes
£150m MADE partnership will seek to develop large brownfield sites and ‘garden villages’
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Berkeley on track to hit £525m profit target after ‘stable’ start to the year
Housebuilder targeting nearly £1bn in pre-tax profit over the next two years as it praises Labour’s planning reforms
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Registered providers underspend on development by 17%
Largest housing assocaitions cite delays and contractor failures in latest quarterly survey from Regulator of Social Housing
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Vistry set to unseat Barratt as country’s biggest housebuilder
Patnerships developer set to build 18,000 homes this year, taking it above figure predicted by rival
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“This must mark a turning point for building safety”: How the sector responded to the Grenfell Inquiry report
Housing leaders have been reacting to the long-awaited Phase 2 report and its 1,700 pages of findings
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Metropolitan Police chief stresses it could take 18 months to bring charges over Grenfell
Meanwhile at PMQs Keir Starmer apologises on behalf of the British state and says ‘today is a long-awaited day of truth but it must now lead to a day of justice’
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Barratt profit drops by three quarters amid fresh building safety costs and market slowdown
Completions drop 19% and expected to fall further this year