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Skills such as heat pump installation, teamwork and leadership should be among the training and upskilling included in the apprenticeship levy, urges the construction industry.
Repairs and maintenance SMEs need to skill up on decarbonisation, shows survey Smaller building firms are less confident than larger ones in delivering the decarbonisation
New initiative criticised as ‘indiscriminate’ A voluntary commitment to instal newly built homes with bird-nesting bricks or boxes as well as creating hedgehog highways will
Persuading future MPs to develop a national strategy to improve the energy and water efficiency of the UK’s 25m existing homes will be crucial for
More than 250,000 new entrants across multiple disciplines are needed to make the UK’s existing 27m homes reach net zero by 2050, according to a
SME developers and housebuilders should get a greater slice of the action under local authorities’ new powers to buy land for affordable or social housing.
SME housebuilders developing sites of less than ten homes are finding biodiversity net gain rules so complicated and costly they are leaving the industry. The
A cross-industry working group is calling for mandatory targets to cut individual water consumption at home from 110 litres a day to 105 by 2025
Getting cranes, roofs, and steel girders to arrive on site without major delays is becoming more and more difficult claims the construction industry. They say
One of the largest regeneration schemes in Europe has reached a major milestone with the creation of a limited liability partnership. The new Bristol Temple
Liverpool has unveiled ambitious plans to repurpose old sites and develop new housing to serve those working in its emerging industries such as life sciences
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’ pledge to reform planning and bring back mandatory local authority housing delivery targets has received the thumbs up from housebuilders. Ms
Standardisinginfrastructure agreements and employing more planning officerswould speed updelivery of thousands of housing projects currently delayed, claims the Homebuilders Federation,
Simplifying planning with a new ‘medium’ sized definition for sites of ten to 49 homeswill enable SMEs to be major
Proposals for young people to be able to work and move freely around Europe could have a positive spin-off for
SME construction firms to be the most affected by proposals to reign in immigration as they will struggle to pay
Grid demand to surge as heat pumps and electric cars gain traction SMEs will leave the housebuilding sector if the
Standardisinginfrastructure agreements and employing more planning officerswould speed updelivery of thousands of housing projects currently delayed, claims the Homebuilders Federation,
Small sites are important for local economies On the eve of the local elections for four new regional metro mayors
SME builders give thumbs up to Homes England’s small sites category SME developers key for regional growth More SME housebuilders
UK steel vital for the country’s green economy SMEs housebuilders are worried the current global tariff war will create economic
BNG review urgently needed to help SMEs speed up housing delivery SMEs are optimistic proposed ‘rolling reforms’ to environmental regulation
New levy on top of existing developer tax is unnecessary SME housebuilders are being encouraged to lobby their local MPs
Unclear how proposed changes will work The building industry has described reforms to planning as a step in the right
Transport secretary Heidi Alexanderhas announced plans to unlock swathes of surplus railway land across England for a £1bn development of
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook’s pledge to stand up to potential NIMBY resistance to new towns if the development was in
Housebuilders are challenging proposals to scrap the lower rate of landfill tax, which they claim would amount to a 30-fold
Smaller builders are calling for the government to remove the one-hectare threshold for theproposed medium-sized plot definition of ten to
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