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The UK housing affordability crisis: challenges for first-time buyers and solutions...
Build Warranty explores possible solutions to the housing affordability crisis facing first time buyers in the UK- and how structural warranties can help.
Senior housing: Accommodating an ageing population in a supply crisis
Andrew Fyfe, associate director of healthcare and senior living at BNP Paribas Real Estate, charts the challenges of accommodating an ageing population in a senior housing crisis.
Tackling the housing and biodiversity net gain crisis
Housing developers have been handed the opportunity to play a fundamental role in improving the UK’s environment while addressing the country’s crippling housing shortage.
Housing plans risk an accessible home crisis, research says
Housing experts have warned of an ‘accessible homes crisis’ as new research reveals that less than a quarter of homes built outside London by 2030 will be suitable for older and disabled people.
Former Housing Minister claims UK planning system is ‘confronting a major...
A new report from the former housing minister, Nick Raynsford has said that the current planning system is broken and unfit for purpose
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Delivering on ambitious housing policies
Labour’s landslide victory provides the new government with the political capital needed to push through the ambitious housing policies outlined in their manifesto.
The New Era: Labour Government and the future of the UK...
Labour’s manifesto outlined a series of ambitious plans to address the housing crisis, emphasising affordability, sustainability, and community empowerment. Here’s a closer look at how the housing landscape is expected to evolve under this new administration.
£3bn affordable housing boost to deliver 20,000 new homes
In a significant move to address the UK's housing crisis, the government has announced a £3bn expansion to the Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme.
Sir Keir Starmer lays out his vision for housing
Labour leader Keir Starmer reiterated points from the Labour Manifesto, saying that he would reform planning, increase the supply of affordable housing and maintain Right to Buy.
UK housing development may lose £70bn in additional value without planning...
A report commissioned by RTPI has found that planning reform and increased housing development could miss out on over £70bn in additional value by not investing in planning.
Housing is an important election issue for voters, according to research...
A recent survey of Orbit customers found that 46% said housing was the key election issue- twice that of the national average.
£1.5bn ICN housing framework awarded to over 100 firms
Great Places Housing Group has revealed the successful bidders for its four-year Innovation Chain North Framework.
Labour announces New Towns Code with 40% affordable housing targets
Speaking at the UK’s Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) event in Leeds today, Deputy leader of the opposition Angela Rayner announced Labour's plan for housing, including a New Towns Code, part of a planned 1.5m new homes built over five years.
Scottish government to declare national housing emergency
The Scottish government is to declare a national housing emergency during a Labour-led debate at Holyrood.
No time to waste: Meeting the housing stock needs of 2040
By 2040, England’s 16+ population is set to grow by 6% and the country is estimated to have lost at least an additional 385,800 social homes. Dan Usher, economics director at Marrons, discusses why short-termism in politics and NIMBYism need to be put aside to ensure the housing stock needs of the country’s future inhabitants are met.
Unlocking the potential for seniors’ housing: What needs to change?
Planning policy has failed to keep pace with demographic shifts and the UK’s ageing population. Nicola Gooch of Irwin Mitchell and Oliver Knight of Knight Frank discuss new analysis on the supply of seniors’ housing and what needs to change to improve supply.
Solving the UK’s housing shortfall requires a modular construction rethink
As 3D laser scanning emerges as a game-changer in modern construction, FARO Technologies explores how the technology can aid in reshaping modular building and help to tackle the UK’s housing shortfall.
Putting the UK housing market back on track
Ravi Pankhania, managing director of Nacropolis Group, explores the challenges surrounding affordability, supply shortages, and planning complexities in the UK housing market.
Councils “need to do more” on building safety enforcement, says housing...
Minister for Housing, Planning and Building Safety, Lee Rowley MP, spoke at a debate on building safety enforcement on Tuesday 26th March.
Largest affordable Passivhaus housing scheme completed in North West
Greenhaus brings 96 highly sustainable, affordable Passivhaus homes to Chapel Street in Salford - it is the largest Passivhaus Classic Certified development in the North West.
Dame Kate Barker to lead new commission into England’s housing shortage
Dame Kate Barker CBE is to lead a new Commission into England’s housing shortage, with experts from the RTPI, Vistry Group and Society of Black Architects.
Potential new cladding crisis looms after fire rips through London low-rise...
Fears have been raised of a new cladding crisis after a fire gutted four low-rise timber frame homes in Barnet- and 580 more properties were found to have the same unsafe plastic cladding.
Connected technology transforming water treatment in social housing
Helen Isherwood, managing director at ADEY, considers how predicting when water treatment intervention is needed will help to save money, reduce carbon emissions, ensure contractor compliance and maintain tenant comfort in social housing.
New research sheds light on the health costs of deregulated housing...
The detrimental health effects of deregulated housing highlight the urgent need for comprehensive regulations and enforcement, according to a study by Bartlett UCL.
ADEY unveils Sense technology for social housing providers
ADEY's Sense technology makes it possible to stay ahead of heating system breakdowns and is revolutionising the way social housing providers manage large numbers of properties.
Over half of UK residents in privately rented or social accommodation...
63% of those who've experienced mould were tenants in privately rented, local authority, housing association, or student accommodation, according to Uswitch Energy's Mouldy Nation Report.