All Housing articles – Page 26
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ɫTV
Top 150 firms see revenue bounce back from covid but all eyes turn to next year
Total income of biggest contractors and housebuilders increased by average of 18% last year, ɫTV’s annual table reveals
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Affordable housing boss joins Redrow board
Metropolitan Thames Valley chief executive joins board of £2bn-turnover housebuilder
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Firefighters call for tighter rules on modular construction
Fire chiefs especially worried over use of offsite techniques in high rises
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Warning of ‘complete collapse’ in local plan-making after Gove announcement
Developer groups fear the government has “given up” on housing delivery despite asserted support for 300,000-home target
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Mears announces new chair as profit set to ‘exceed expectations’
Chris Loughlin will succeed Kieran Murphy as chair of housing specialist in May
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Competition watchdog ready to start housing sector probe after Gove call
CMA considering Gove’s call for recommendations to improve “effectiveness” of sector
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Gove to water down local housing targets following backbench pressure
Changes would give councils more flexibility to depart from delivery numbers
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Swan to close offsite factories as firm looks to head off default notice and ink Sanctuary deal
Troubled housing association will not keep modular facilities open even after rescue merger with rival completes
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Housing associations’ merger delayed
Sanctuary’s rescue of Swan was supposed to be completed yesterday
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ɫTV
Gove pulls key planning reform vote as rebellion grows
Vote on Levelling Up Bill axed as Tory gets 46 supporters for rebel amendment to scrap housing targets
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Features
Help to Buy: It’s the end of an era
The final applications have been submitted and the government’s equity loan scheme in England is due to wind up on 31 March next year. Emily Twinch considers what impact this will have on housebuilders.
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ɫTV
Councils to get new powers to block planning permission
Government amendments to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to designed to stop housebuilders landbanking
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Another housebuilder announces plan to cut jobs
Impact of September’s mini-Budget again blamed for move
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Housebuilders say ‘bitterly disappointing’ autumn statement does nothing to help sector
Issues over stamp duty, planning and number of homes being built not addressed by chancellor, firms add
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Disastrous mini-Budget takes toll on Gleeson sales
Housebuilder says cancellation rates have doubled since botched announcement
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Comment
Fight with housebuilders on the cards as Gove goes back to the future
The re-appointment of Michael Gove as housing secretary is likely to mean the return of fraught discussions about building safety costs
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ɫTV
Autumn statement at-a-glance: Tax rises and spending cuts as OBR forecasts recession
Chancellor sets out plan to stabilise economy
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ɫTV
Hunt reverses Kwarteng’s ‘permanent’ stamp duty cut from 2025
Decision comes as OBR forecasts long term pain in housing market
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ɫTV
Crest Nicholson wants government to act on planning reform
Housebuilder on track to hit profit goal but sales have slowed in recent weeks
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ɫTV
Regulator downgrades 19 housing associations citing ‘weakening housing market’
Major developers Clarion, L&Q, Home Group, Places for People and Sovereign among those with lowered viability ratings