Housing Delivery

Yorkshire Housing says rising borrowing costs hampering build plans as it misses target

19,000-home landlord increases surplus and turnover

Plans submitted for £200m Huyton town centre regeneration scheme

Mixed-use plans to include council headquarters and new homes

Innovation, collaboration and the search for capital: Greg Reed outlines what the social housing sector must do post-spending review

Following the better-than-expected spending review, the Places for People boss argues that the sector now needs to work out how best it can deliver an offer in return – and that includes finding new ways of attracting investment.

MTVH ‘confident’ it will build record 1,200 homes this year

G15 landlord on track to more than double development after ‘strong’ starts figures

Will the expected London housebuilding package rescue the stalled development industry?

With one in six housing schemes in the capital on hold and demand at rock bottom, Joey Gardiner asks whether simply reducing expectations for affordable housing will be enough to get construction going again

We can’t fix social cohesion without fixing housing

Secure homes are the foundation of safer, stronger, more united communities, argues Rachael Williamson

‘Emergency’ planning package to boost London’s housebuilding delayed

Measures reportedly include a reduction in affordable housing requirements on sites

A hidden housing hurdle: How sewage treatment capacity is stalling 30,000 new homes - and why it could get much worse

A growing number of water companies are objecting to planning applications for homes on the basis that there is not enough local sewage treatment capacity to cope, writes Joey Gardiner.

Housing Forum appoints placemaking expert Alex Notay as chief executive

Membership body announces successor to long-time boss Shelagh Grant

Almost all homes fitted with external insulation under Conservative governments’ retrofit schemes need repair work, report finds

National Audit Office survey uncovers litany of failures on two energy efficiency schemes including widespread suspected fraud

Housing must be delivered locally and councils need the tools to do it

Research from Key Cities has found financial constraints and land availability - not planning - are the main barriers to delivering homes. Michael Mordey argues we need to empower local authorities to boost delivery

University of Cambridge submits masterplan for next phases of 5,600-home Eddington scheme

Outline plan lodged for up to 3,800 additional homes and 50ha of open space

Citizen vows to learn from contractor insolvencies as completions impacted

Housing association puts in place ‘live monitoring of contractor risk’ after undershooting development target

Plans being drawn up for 22-storey student accommodation tower on former London Met School of Architecture site

Mixed-use scheme would add new education space to school site formerly known as The Cass

Annual house price growth falls to lowest level for 18 months

Commentators point to pre-budget hesitancy

Scaling affordable housing: how do we bring innovation and new capital together?

Traditional funding routes are increasingly looking unviable. Without new funding sources and smarter delivery models, development pipelines will stall, argues Ben Denton

Bromford Flagship and LiveWest enter merger talks to create 120,000-home group

Pair discussing creating £900m-turnover organisation in drive to build 50,000 homes over 15 years

Taylor Wimpey on track to hit completions target despite drop in sales rate

Housebuilder seeking to increase completions to 14,000 a year in the “medium-term”

‘Not good enough’ - MHCLG takes aim at RPs for not buying enough section 106 units

HBF estimates 8,500 homes due in the next 12 months are at risk of not being built or standing empty because of lack of a contract with a registered provider

‘Bulk of reform has been done’ - Pennycook warns housing developers against ‘holding back’ for more

Pennycook says results of numerous consultation to be revealed in coming months