August shutdown the answer to an annual dilemma?

Britain’s construction industry could be more efficient if there was a national shutdown for two to three weeks each August, says Dan Grimshaw from leading design and construction firm Beam Development. “The combined effect of post-lockdown holidays, the loss of... View Article

New town centre council homes for local people

Ninety Croydon families will soon move into a new 100% affordable apartment block offering council homes at council rents that was unveiled on Monday. Next month people on the borough’s housing waiting list will move into the new town centre... View Article

Custom and self-build homes to get scale-up boost

Up to 40,000 new homes a year should be custom or self-built according to a government-commissioned review released on August 21st. MP Richard Bacon’s House: How putting customers in charge can change everything offers a route map on how the... View Article

Luxury build-to-rent scheme gets started in Sheffield

Work has advanced at Founders Yard, as Clegg Construction begins building a new ten storey build-to-rent (BTR) scheme on the site of the former Queens Hotel in Scotland Street, Sheffield. Developed by RISE Homes, the scheme comprises 229 one-and-two-bed furnished... View Article

The beginnings of scale for custom build housing

The Government have (Saturday, 21 August) published the results of the Bacon Review following a commission by the Prime Minister to set out a plan for a major scaling of self-commissioned housing across all tenures in England. Custom Build Homes... View Article

Supreme court rejects challenge to UC ‘two-child limit’

Fears over rising rent arrears and increased eviction levels have followed the country’s highest court rejecting a challenge to the Government’s “two-child limit” for welfare payments. Dating from April 2017, the rule restricts child tax credit and Universal Credit to... View Article

Half a million more of us are renting

The latest research by nationwide buy-to-let specialist, Sequre Property Investment, has revealed the areas which have seen the biggest swings toward renting when compared to homeownership in recent years. Sequre analysed data on dwellings across each area of England since... View Article

Tenants are most likely to feel at risk from fire

Social housing tenants are the group who most fear a fire breaking out at their home, although the vast majority of residents still feel safe in their homes according to the most recent English Housing Survey results. For the first... View Article