
New green designs for Scottish homes could hamper delivery
Scottish housebuilders claim new design standards based on the German Passivhaus system will hamper meeting the country’s housing needs. Homes for Scotland has said the
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Scottish housebuilders claim new design standards based on the German Passivhaus system will hamper meeting the country’s housing needs. Homes for Scotland has said the
The construction supply industry has won a major victory with the 30-month extension of the CE mark for building products. The government had planned to
Housebuilders have hit out at plans to buy ‘nutrient credits’ for building on protected wildlife sites where pollutants such as nitrogen and phosphorus have leached
Banks have warned that without financial incentives such as a stamp duty refund to incentivise people to adopt green retrofits the government won’t meet its
Nearly 19,000 new homes and more than 65,000 jobs could be created in the West Midlands if its application for a package of investment zones
Housebuilders are urging lenders to factor in bill savings when offering mortgages to borrowers buying new energy-efficient homes. Energy performance certificate, EPC, data shows that
A more diverse construction workforce is at the heart of a new equity and inclusion plan launched in Scotland to give the building industry access
An opportunity to build a £100m industrial or logistics scheme on land in a prime spot south of the river Thames is up for grabs.
A new development finance fund to help regional SME housebuilders thrive has been launched by Newstead Capital in partnership with the government’s housing accelerator, Homes
The building industry is hoping the new prime minister Liz Truss will cut construction business taxes, reform planning and back green retrofits of the country’s
Large firms should be made to pay SMEs within 30 days of invoice, urges the Chartered Institute of Building, CIOB, in its Covid-19 and Construction
Builders merchants recorded the highest revenue since their building index began in 2014 for the second quarter of this year despite a year-on-year drop in
Construction products could be withdrawn from the country within two years if the government forces all building products to be
Giving Homes England the power to acquire land, masterplan and grant planning approval offers a glimmer of hope for scaling
A major scaling up of custom and self-build homes has failed to materialise due to insufficient publicity and available land,
The housebuilding industry is calling on lenders to offer mortgages at more favourable rates for those buying new homes where
The building industry says the sector is facing a retirement cliff with one in five builders aged over 50 and
Councils will struggle to set viable rates for developing brownfield and urban sites under the new infrastructure levy, warn landowners.
Midland’s housebuilder A C Lloyd has withdrawn its application to build 200 homes on agricultural land in Warwickshire despite having
The construction industry has breathed a sigh of relief that political pressure to make the installation of solar panels on
The UK’s focus on increasing habitats for wildlife could hinder housebuilding on smaller sites warns the National Federation of Builders,
Small housebuilders must be given a slice of the action if Labour follows its promise to build on green belt
House prices were up by half a per cent in April after seven months of consecutive falls, according to the
Nearly a quarter of a million extra people are needed in construction by 2027 but outdated perceptions mean it is
An overhaul of the planning system is seen as an important first step, but industry experts have said housebuilders still
SME builders order books could receive a welcome boost as councils exert their new powers to tackle the problem of
The construction industry is calling on the Government to rethink its £1m inheritance relief tax cap if it wants to
Economic experts have said that if the Government wants to achieve its 1.5m housebuilding target it will have to tempt
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