All Policy articles – Page 53
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NewsAutumn budget: developer cladding tax set at 4% on profits above £25m
‘Exit charge’ for housing associations if they are deemed to be making a profit-making in the ‘wider sense’
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NewsWhat can housing expect from the budget and spending review?
Rishi Sunak today delivers his third budget alongside a spending review. Here are some of the housing things we may (or may not) see from the chancellor today.
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NewsHomes England offers £175m of green loans for SMEs
Chief executive Peter Denton says alliance with lender will create “new paths to net zero”
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NewsHousing associations cut plans for 13,000 homes in face of mounting fire safety costs
Call for more funding as research shows build programmes have been cut by a tenth over next five years
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CommentTime for housing associations to lead and not follow in the race to net zero
It is unforgivable that so few HAs have signed up for the United Nations’ initiative, argues Chris Brown
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NewsIndustry laments ‘shocking’ failure to introduce domestic retrofit programme
Critics round on government over ‘unambitious’ Heat and Buildings strategy supposed to pave the way for net zero
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CommentThe heat pump grant is welcome – but £5,000 is not enough
The government has set a bold target, but it may need to do more to persuade homeowners and industry that it is worth the investment, says Darren Snaith
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In FocusEight key takeaways from the Heat and Buildings Strategy
Hydrogen shelved, potential mandatory EPC targets for mortgage lenders and could new homes be cut off from the gas grid? Here’s our round-up of key points from the Heat and Buildings strategy
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NewsHousing sector urges more ambition as Heat and Buildings Strategy trailed
Government sets out £3.9bn of measures including an £800m social housing decarbonisation fund
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NewsBuild to rent developers to be exempt from £2bn cladding tax
Treasury officials brief the sector that the government has taken on demands for exclusion from new tariff
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CommentAssociations’ contribution goes well beyond housing
As debate rages over the Boris Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ agenda, Paul Hackett argues that housing associations have a huge role to play in delivering on a wide range of related government priorities
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NewsWelwyn Hatfield pauses local plan citing PM’s ‘no green field’ conference speech
Green belt authority cancels series of local plan meetings after Boris Johnson tells Tories he wants to take ‘pressure off the South-east’
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NewsHousebuilders and public landowners ‘driving down design quality’
Evidence to House of Lords committee points finger at TfL and NHS Estates for prioritising land receipts over placemaking
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NewsBarratt rides out big fall in Help to Buy sales
Housebuilder records slight dip in reservation despite huge drop-off in use of government’s subsidised purchase scheme
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In FocusWhat do we know so far about what Gove's tenure will mean for housing?
The reshuffle has put the restyled housing ministry in the spotlight, with one of the Tories’ biggest hitters now in charge reflecting a significant recalibration of government priorities, writes Joey Gardiner
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News£58m allocated to councils to bring forward brownfield sites
53 local authorities receive funding through Brownfield Release Fund
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CommentWe’ve got to stop building homes in the same way as 50 years ago
David Orr, ahead of his appearance at a House of Lords inquiry into housing demand this morning, writes about his frustration at the lack of progress on the way we build homes.
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CommentLand banking, absorption rates and learning from Pret a Manger
The idea that housebuilders withhold consented land to push up prices is just a myth, argues Paul Smith
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NewsJohnson: Levelling up can take pressure off housing in the south east
PM flags desire for brownfield development in detail-light speech
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NewsTory MPs demand the government moves faster on low carbon homes
Rising star Bim Afolami says net zero ready homes needed urgently, even if housebuilders “scream and shout”