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Managing director Robin Butler on quality, reliability, and how to get what you want from housebuilders
Sir Oliver Letwin summed it up when he set out the terms of reference for his independent review of Build Out, looking at the slow pace of delivery of large housing sites. “There are limited opportunities for rivals to enter large sites and compete for customers by offering different types of homes at different price-points and with different tenures,” he said. That has resulted in homogeneous housing estates, often with scant consideration given to amenities and placemaking, a prospect that is unappealing to stakeholders and homebuyers, and can result in resistance to development, slower sales and slower build rates. And so it goes.
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