
Government can’t deliver 1.5m new homes without SMEs’ help
Smaller builders will be crucial to hitting the Government’s ambitious target of 300,000 new homes a year, claims the construction industry. The comments follow Homes

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Smaller builders will be crucial to hitting the Government’s ambitious target of 300,000 new homes a year, claims the construction industry. The comments follow Homes

Raising competence levels among domestic builders should be among future changes to the industry to ensure all buildings are safe, urges the Federation of Master

SMEs are hoping to get a slice of the housebuilding action when it comes to expanding existing places and regeneration under new town proposals announced

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
Smaller builders are calling for the government to remove the one-hectare threshold for theproposed medium-sized plot definition of ten to
Plans for 300,000 new social and affordable homes over the next decade will generate a pipeline of work for SME
Robots capable of laying bricks five times faster than a skilled human could help the UK reach the ambitious target
Smaller builders are optimistic Homes England’s new national housing bank will give them a bigger slice of the development action.
Housebuilders are calling for a ‘cap’ on the grid connection and infrastructure costs when it becomes mandatory for new homes
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
Imposing a design code for conversions of empty office space into housing would help ensure the new homes were fit
Water companies must be held to account on sewage provision if the Government’s target of 1.5m new homes by 2029
Master developer Lands Improvement has acquired Dunton Hills golf centre and is set to put enabling infrastructure on the 551-site
A £122m cash injection to remediate derelict brownfield land, opening private sector investment for 1,100 new homes in Newcastle, has
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