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SME housebuilders claim the government’s new contract forcing all developers to pay £2bn or more to fix unsafe properties is unfair. Housing secretary Michael Gove

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SME housebuilders claim the government’s new contract forcing all developers to pay £2bn or more to fix unsafe properties is unfair. Housing secretary Michael Gove

Housebuilders have described new rules forcing developers in England to adopt sustainable drainage systems to prevent flooding as ‘ill thought out’. The government has announced

Giving up mandatory housing targets will harm SME developers and condemn another generation to ‘housing misery’, the National Federation of Builders, NFB, has warned. The

Changes to the levelling up and regeneration bill allowing councils to withhold planning consent to developers slow to build on a site are counterproductive, claims

Housebuilders are calling on chancellor Jeremy Hunt to support SMEs following the demise of help-to-buy where first-time buyers could access a mortgage at low-interest rates.

Construction companies are being asked for their views on an industry-wide plan to slash diesel use on building sites by more than three quarters within

PM hopeful Rishi Sunak’s pledge to protect the green belt and focus on delivering new homes on brownfield sites has been described as lacking insight

New warehouses and infrastructure growth are expected to fuel a rise in construction output by 2.5 per cent for 2022, according to the Construction Product

Overestimates of the amount of river polluting nutrients housebuilding generates is leading councils to delay 100,000 new homes’ planning applications, claims the Home Builders Federation.

Thousands of first-time buyers will miss out on a help-to-buy loan due to the government introducing a new deadline for reserving a property by the

Steel, bitumen, cast iron, rebar and timber supply issues along with rising cement, bricks and blocks and glass costs are likely impacts of the conflict

The construction industry is rallying forces to address rising personal indemnity insurance premiums with a mega-poll of building firms. It wants to provide the government
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Programme offers on-site two-week placement The housebuilding industry hopes its latest site manager course will go some way to redressing
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An influential committee has written to the government urging them to consider how they can help SMEs when drawing up
A lack of planning officers could be one of the biggest obstacles for hitting the Government’s target of 1.5m new
A £122m cash injection to remediate derelict brownfield land, opening private sector investment for 1,100 new homes in Newcastle, has
More than 40,000 future builders, bricklayers, electricians, carpenters and plumbers are to be trained across the country by 2029 in
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
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