
First female government chief planner appointed
Property Funding News:- Joanna Averley will be the first woman chief planner when she joins the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in September.

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Property Funding News:- Joanna Averley will be the first woman chief planner when she joins the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in September.

Bridging Loan News:- Scotland’s strict lockdown on building sites needs to be lifted to help meet housing supply and save jobs and businesses, urges a

Development Finance News:- Construction workers are relieved the government has said they are eligible for Covid-19 testing as the sector continues to re-open more building

Bridging Loans News:- Extend planning approvals by a year to avoid current permissions lapsing during the pandemic crisis, urges the construction industry. The National Federation

Property Finance News:- Housing minister, Robert Jenrick, has taken the controversial step of telling the mayor, Sidiq Khan to overhaul the London plan to allow

Bridging Loans News:- Housebuilders who mis-sell leasehold homes could find themselves in court following the worrying findings of a Competition and Markets Authority probe. The

Edinburgh city council has earmarked £2.5bn for housing and plans to build 20,000 new homes by 2028. The money will go towards modernising existing homes

Development Finance News:- The UK is lagging behind other countries when it comes to harnessing 3-D printing to build new homes, a leading academic has

Bridging Finance News:- Poorly designed houses are getting through on appeal and are undermining the government’s planning policy, according to the findings of a national

Bridging Finance News:- Plans to build 200,000 homes for first-time buyers under 40 have been sidelined due to lack of parliamentary time to pass the

Construction Finance News:- A rural spot in West Sussex is set to expand exponentially within the next few years to ease the acute housing shortages

Bridging Loans News:-Dame Judith Hackitt, who conducted the building regulations review post the Grenfell fire disaster, is to advise the government on establishing a new
The construction industry has written an open letter to the prime minister Sir Keir Starmercalling for a rethink on proposed
Scottish housing secretary Màiri McAllan is urging the country’s planning authorities to exercise proportionality to avoid ‘unnecessary’ costs and delays
Housebuilders are calling for flexibility over tenures as financially strapped housing associations are increasingly unable to buy the ‘affordable homes’
A new pre-examination checklist for local plans goes live next month to help speed up approvals and avoid lengthy inspectorate
Expanding the proposed medium-sized site definition of ten to 49 homes to up to 150 for London has won the
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
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
The construction industry has written an open letter to the prime minister Sir Keir Starmercalling for a rethink on proposed
Scottish housing secretary Màiri McAllan is urging the country’s planning authorities to exercise proportionality to avoid ‘unnecessary’ costs and delays
Housebuilders are calling for flexibility over tenures as financially strapped housing associations are increasingly unable to buy the ‘affordable homes’
A new pre-examination checklist for local plans goes live next month to help speed up approvals and avoid lengthy inspectorate
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