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NewsLabour’s cut-price land sale plans divide industry
The Labour Party’s plans to force landowners to sell plots at lower prices to local authorities have divided industry experts.
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Quintain and FORE Partnership sign up to new Healthy Homes Checklist
Ekkist, wellbeing consultancy for the built environment, has launched a new Healthy Homes Checklist, with developers Quintain and FORE Partnership among the first to sign up.
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Material steps for tackling inflation
Editor: Disruption to the construction sector caused by the volatility of material price inflation shows no signs of abating, with recent analysis of Office for National Statistics data showing inflation added £23bn to the cost of the sector’s output compared with pre-pandemic levels.
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Gove unlikely to back down on beauty
Planning experts believe housing secretary Michael Gove is likely to retain his stance that housing schemes should be “beautiful”, despite news he could rethink his rejection of a Berkeley Homes scheme in Kent on aesthetic grounds.
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Vistry to revisit executive pay policy after shareholders revolt
Vistry has indicated it will reconsider its new executive pay policy after nearly half of its shareholders voted against its bonus plans.
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Dominus hires projects director
Dominus has appointed Will Charlton as its new projects director to help grow the group’s UK pipeline.
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Rockwell plans 269-home luxury London riverside scheme
London-based mixed-use developer Rockwell has revealed plans for a 269-home luxury river-front development in Hammersmith & Fulham.
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Vistry expects profit boost at sales rate improves
Housebuilding giant Vistry has told investors its sales rate has continued to improve in the year to date as it pointed to a surge in full-year profit.
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Government must get to grips with housing crisis
The housing crisis lurches from tragedy to farce and no one is making any more land, leaving millions of renters lightyears away from owning their own residence.
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Alastair Stewart on the futureproofing of new housing developments
Snow in May – even if it is in Manchester? Except the artificially produced flurry is not at the northern capital’s indoor ski slope but from a housing research project trying to preserve the future of the natural white stuff.
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Pocket’s Marc Vlessing on how an SME housebuilding renaissance can help fill the delivery vacuum
The longest and arguably most interventionist demand-side state-sponsored housing policy since the Right to Buy has come to a final end, bringing the curtain down on its 10th anniversary.
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Modular housing still set fair despite L&G factory closure
While firm pulls the plug on its modular factory, others in the sector are attracting interest from investors
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Civitas Social Housing agrees £485m takeover deal with CK Asset Holdings
Civitas Social Housing has agreed terms to sell the company to Wellness Unity, a wholly owned subsidiary of CK Asset Holdings, following a £485m cash takeover offer.
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Khan makes election pledge to create City Hall housing developer
Sadiq Khan has pledged to create a new GLA-owned housing developer if he is re-elected as London mayor at next year’s elections.
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Professional
Denser development could help meet UK housing needs
UK cities are among the least densely populated in Europe – but this must change to solve the housing crisis.
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‘We want to be the UK’s largest housebuilder’: Big interview with Countryside Partnerships
Stephen Teagle, chief executive of Countryside Partnerships, tells Property Week about the housebuilder’s growth plans following its merger with Vistry Group and the outlook for the sector.
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Ex housing secretary says scrapping housebuilding targets was ‘major mistake’
Former housing secretary Simon Clarke has branded the scrapping of housebuilding targets a “major mistake” after the Conservative Party’s dire local election results.
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Planners seek clarity from Berkeley’s High Court challenge to Gove
Planning experts have said Berkeley Homes’ High Court challenge to housing secretary Michael Gove’s rejection of its housing scheme in Kent is needed to clarify the “relationship between subjectivity and policy”.
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Barratt tells investors it is set to meet full-year forecasts
Barratt Developments has said its annual adjusted profit before tax will be in line with expectations at around £880m, despite a sharp fall in reservations and forward sales.
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Barratt goes big on quality: interview with Barratt Developments' chief executive David Thomas
The housebuilding giant’s chief executive David Thomas tells Andy Hillier how a focus on ‘quality, service and sustainability’ has helped steer the company through choppy economic waters
