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Top 10
There have been several changes at the top of the housebuilding industry during the past 12 months. New faces now head up the three leading companies – Mark Clare at Barratt, Mike Farley at Persimmon and Pete Redfern at Wimpey. Meanwhile, Westbury has been swallowed up by Persimmon and Bovis has joined the top table. Chris Windle profiles the men in charge of building more than a third of the UK’s homes each year
PGS rethink is needed
The Treasury cannot meet all its core objectives for the planning gain supplement (PGS). With the help of the development industry, it needs to go back to the drawing board and seek a better solution
The Walrus
Fancy living with the likes of Kiera Knightley and Scarlett Johansson? A new “buy-toshare” website is just the ticket
S106 demands are a risk to supply
The government believes there is a large, untapped pool of residential land value waiting to fund increased planning obligations demands or a planning gain supplement. But the research used to justify this belief does not support such a conclusion
No job? No money? No future? No problem.
The Walrus
Move over Top of the Pops: let’s get down to a long-lost industry smash hit…
