All Housing articles – Page 104
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In FocusFlooding in the UK and building for a wetter future
Following more storms and ensuing floods, the focus is turning from where to how we build in affected areas
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In Focus‘We’re in dialogue with councils across the country’: Atkins bosses on first MMC housing scheme
Atkin’s social housing brand Edaroth is displaying four family homes in Lambeth as a way of building offsite on brownfield land around the country
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CommentHousing must be at the heart of levelling up regional economies
The planning system should encourage housebuilding in the North and Midlands, not stymie development
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CommentThe building beautiful commission’s report is too narrow
It ignores our recommendations – which come from our customers – and proposes blanket solutions
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CommentThe Conservatives could win young people over with radical housing change
Making planning decisions by need rather than for a vocal minority would shore up support, if the government is brave enough
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In Focus‘Genuine community building’: Ken Dytor on transforming Purfleet
The Urban Catalyst founder on big plans for the Essex town, improving the health of its residents and what regeneration is like post-Brexit
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CommentHow to balance building more homes with fighting the climate crisis
We need to build housing fit for the future while keeping developments viable for the industry and avoiding huge charges for residents
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CommentIt’s the end of the planning system as we know it (and I feel fine…)
Will the new government, with a strong majority, finally grasp the nettle and fundamentally reform the planning system?
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CommentThe beauty commission's advice is sound on sustainable placemaking
Who can argue against the idea that beauty is "everything that promotes a healthy and happy life"?
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CommentTime to stop building – unless it’s for the greater good
We need fewer, smaller, greener and more affordable homes that improve people’s quality of life, says Chris Brown
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Housing Delivery‘A place of pioneers’: Greenwich Millennium Village
Labour’s vision of sustainable communities is still going strong 20 years on – in at least one case
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CommentStop housing being treated as infrastructure’s poor relation
Give housing associations the chance to create communities, not just homes
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CommentDon’t forget: a lot of housing design is getting better
The critical CPRE audit focuses on a limited number of schemes and tells only part of the story
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In Focus‘Improve the stock of human happiness’: Interview with Neil Murphy, founding director of TOWN
The founding director of developer TOWN on award-winning co-housing scheme Marmalade Lane and how to shake up placemaking
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In FocusWhy is the Home Building Fund failing to reach small builders?
Despite being the main target of the fund and the ones that need it most, SME housebuilders are struggling to access the cash
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In FocusHow good housing can rescue the high street
With Mothercare joining the list of famous retailers to disappear, David Blackman considers alternative ways of keeping town centres alive
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In FocusWill Persimmon now put its own house in order?
Has Persimmon’s financial success come at the expense of quality and safety?
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In Focus‘We are still fighting our corner’: Interview with Katy Jordan, Storey Homes
The managing director of Storey Homes on succeeding as an SME housebuilder and taking on the government