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Over 50 organisations – including councils, professional bodies and trade associations – have urged the government to reinstate the reference to Garden City principles in the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
The momentum in the UK housing market continues to slow, as buyer demand falls for the twelfth consecutive month, according to the figures from the March 2018 RICS UK Residential Market Survey
According to planning and built environment experts interviewed for a study commissioned by the RTPI, attaching automatic planning permission to housing land allocated in local plans in England would have limited impact on increasing the supply of homes
New research published by property marketplace, TheHouseShop, has revealed that almost half of Brits (45% excluding “don’t know”) believe there will be a housing crash in the next 5 years
The National Site Awards recognise registered sites that have shown the highest levels of consideration towards the public, the workforce and the environment
London Housing Association, Peabody, has named Durkan as the contractor for the first phase of its work on the giant Thamesmead regeneration project in a £45m deal
More than 2,000 people have had their say on the future of social housing by taking part in the Chartered Institute of Housing’s (CIH) Rethinking social housing workshops
Housing Secretary Sajid Javid has announced new measures to professionalise the estate agent market, in the hopes of driving up standards and bringing an end to ‘rogue managing agents’
The UK’s first garden city in a century is expected to expand by nearly £1bn worth of new homes. Major housebuilders are nurturing Ebbsfleet’s roots with some of the biggest land buys since the project’s inception
Rogue landlords who rent out second-rate properties face being forced out of the sector as new banning orders are brought in and a national database of offenders goes live today (6 April)
On 9 April Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall is set to open its doors to the public for the first time since closing for refurbishment at the end of 2015
Built environment professionals gathered at RIBA North in Liverpool for an event dedicated to the regeneration of waterfront environments through urban and landscape design
The latest Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the construction sector has revealed that the industry suffered its largest drop in activity since the 2016 Brexit vote in March due to severe weather disruption from the 'Beast from the East'
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid set out a bold cross-government plan of action to significantly reduce the number of people sleeping rough as the Homelessness Reduction Act comes into force this week
Earlier this year, Bristol City Council committed £57m to an Affordable Housing Fund giving grants to housing associations to build new homes for affordable rent. Housing association Liverty says they now have the capacity to develop at least 15,000 new homes in the South West over the next 10 years
