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Stronger powers granted to councils to tackle empty homes

 

Councils across England will have powers to charge even greater Council Tax premiums on homes left empty for many years following an amendment…

Action to address recent fire door issues

 

Fire doors from 5 suppliers have now been identified as failing to meet requisite fire performance standard following an on-going…

No sign of Brexit nerves in construction

 

Construction SMEs enjoyed rising workloads in the second quarter of 2018, despite continuing concerns over skills shortages and increasing…

Chance to solve rural housing crisis ‘severely limited’ by changes to planning rules

 

Rural landowners have warned that the lack of flexibility in new planning rules which prevent a mix of affordable and market homes from being…

Increase in house building delivers huge boost to UK economy

 

Industry now generating £38bn a year and supporting 700k jobs.

The 74% increase in house building activity in the past four…

Over half of homeless families in England are in work, shocking new figures show

 

55% of homeless families trapped in temporary accommodation are actually working, according to new research released by Shelter’s social…

New funding for innovative projects to build stronger communities

 

A new £7 million fund to support trailblazing approaches to building more integrated communities in England was launched this week by…

ANOTHER new Housing Minister – industry response

 

Kit Malthouse has been named as the eighth Housing Minister since 2010 after Dominic Rabb was announced as the new Brexit secretary yesterday…

London has the biggest housing shortfall in the country

 

The shortfall is over seven times higher than many other regions in England and is over double the next highest region, the South East, which…

Government need to invest significantly in tackling housing crisis

 

Government needs to invest significantly more in genuinely affordable homes and be far bolder in its support for councils if it is to meet the…

Right to buy: too many being sold, not enough replacements being built

 

Figures released by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have revealed that 11,465 homes were sold by councils under the…

Small sites and small builders will build homes faster

 

The best way to speed up housing delivery is to get more small builders back into the market and focus more attention on the potential of…