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Rethinking retrofit: UK social housing crisis demands urgent action

The UK's social housing stock is under scrutiny and demands urgent attention. In this article, Regan Costello, pre-construction manager of retrofit and decarbonisation, explores how retrofit can help.
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How can MMC help ease the UK’s housing crisis?

Ross Baxter, managing director of Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions, explains how Categories two, three, five, and six as defined by the UK Government’s cross-industry working group for Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), can be utilised as part of the wider solution to solve the UK's housing crisis.
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Is Co-Living a vital piece in the puzzle to solve the...

A new report from the British Property Federation urgently calls for detailed guidance on Co-Living to be included in the forthcoming revised National Planning Policy Framework.
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Is co-living the answer to the UK’s housing crisis?

A report by the British Property Federation (BPF) has investigated the increasing popularity of co-living.
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Does politics hold the key to solving the housing crisis?

With a target of 300,000 new homes a year needed to solve the housing crisis, Dr David Crosthwaite, chief economist at BCIS, takes a look at the government actions needed to deliver the challenging benchmark.
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Housing association CEO calls out Gove after housing crisis funding was...

Manningham Housing Association's CEO has written to Michael Gove after it emerged that almost £2bn in housing crisis funding wasn't spent.
The DLUHC has surrended £1.9bn of funding for the housing crisis, roughly a third of the housing budget, after failing to find projects to spend it on

£1.9bn of funding for housing crisis returned to Treasury by DLUHC

The DLUHC has surrended £1.9bn of funding for the housing crisis, roughly a third of the housing budget, after failing to find projects to spend it on.
As turbulent economic conditions push interest rates up, BW Build Warranty explores how to traverse a potential UK housing crisis

Navigating the challenges of a potential UK housing crisis: building a...

As turbulent economic conditions push interest rates up, BW Build Warranty explores how to traverse a potential UK housing crisis.
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RE:GEN takes on housing crisis with affordable bungalow construction

RE:GEN Group, a Durham-based housing association, is embarking on a new venture by constructing a collection of contemporary and affordable bungalows.
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How can modular construction tackle the housing crisis?

An award-winning modular housing specialist is providing a sustainable solution to tackling fuel poverty, homelessness and rough sleeping.
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Solving the UK’s housing crisis: A moving target?

Solving the UK’s housing crisis was one of the major manifesto promises made by the Conservative Party at the last election in 2019. It pledged to build one million homes over the next parliament. Despite winning the election, this target has never been reached and after yet another government U-turn, this time on housing targets, is all hope now lost?
Downgrading housebuilding targets is a bold move that could come at a cost in the midst of the UK housing crisis, says Claire Fallows, partner in the real estate team at Charles Russell Speechlys

Does the government care about the UK housing crisis?

Downgrading housebuilding targets is a bold move that could come at a cost in the midst of the UK housing crisis, says Claire Fallows, partner in the real estate team at Charles Russell Speechlys.
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Stamp duty cuts, affordability, and the housing crisis

The government stamp duty cuts need to be in conjunction with supply-side interventions, argues Grant Westall-Reece, partner in residential development at Bidwells.
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Planning’s role in solving the social housing crisis and tackling homelessness

The Big Issue revealed that at least 30,000 people in England have been on a social housing waiting list for over a decade. Right to Buy, demolitions, and lack of new properties by local authorities have led to a social housing crisis, explains Liberty Mallon.
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Party conferences: What we heard – and what we didn’t –...

Fiona Fletcher-Smith, chief executive of L&Q, reflects on what she said, heard - and would have wanted to hear – about solving the housing crisis at the Labour and Conservative party conferences.
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Greener, better, faster: Modular’s role in solving the housing crisis

Housebuilding in the UK has remained largely unchanged for generations but a new report highlighting the rise of modular construction gives us the opportunity to deliver much-needed new homes and solve the housing crisis, says Steve Cole, director of Make UK Modular.
A shortage of nearly 500,000 senior living housing units has illuminated the impact the housing crisis may have on the increasing elderly population of the UK

Senior living housing shortage exposes scale of UK housing crisis

A shortage of nearly 500,000 senior living housing units has illuminated the impact the housing crisis may have on the increasing elderly population of the UK.
Modular housing, pictured, could be the solution to the housing crisis, delivering houses 50% faster and half emissions in the process , Make UK Modular has claimed

Is modular housing the solution to the housing crisis?

Modular housing could be the solution to the housing crisis, delivering houses 50% faster and half emissions in the process , Make UK Modular has claimed.
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Does the extended Right to Buy Scheme actually help those affected...

Jonathan Rolande, founder of House Buy Fast, shares his opinion that the extended Right to Buy Scheme will do 'absolutely nothing to help those affected by the housing crisis'.
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Right to Buy Scheme: What do new legislations mean for the...

This week (9 June 2022), Boris Johnson announced an extension to the Right to Buy Scheme, but what does this mean for the current UK housing crisis? PBC Today explains.
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Builders must adopt modular construction methods to tackle housing crisis

Zoe Owen, partner in the plot sales team at Moore Barlow, discusses how modular construction methods can unlock the UK’s housing crisis and explains why developers shouldn’t waste any more time adopting this approach.
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How social housing solutions can ease the housing crisis

Proudly working and building on over £1 billion pounds worth of homes throughout Merseyside over the last 35 years, Sutcliffe is no stranger to providing the very best civil and structural engineering services on social housing projects.
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Council tackles Cornwall housing crisis by investing in new offsite homes

Cornwall Council is set to announce an extension to its modular housing initiative to help tackle Cornwall’s housing crisis.
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Meeting housing demand report calls for gov to act on housing...

The Lords Built Environment Committee has published its Meeting housing demand report and calls on the Government to act on planning, SMEs and housing for the elderly to address the housing crisis.
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Pocket Living tackle housing crisis with affordable homes in Barnet

Housing developer make deal with Transport for London to provide 86 one-bedroom homes for first-time buyers to tackle housing crisis in Barnet.
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Solve the housing crisis without risking further climate damage, warns Sir...

Britain must solve its housing crisis without putting climate at risk, warned the UK's former chief scientific advisor, Sir David King, at an Offsite Alliance event.