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The latest news, features, comment and analysis of the UK housebuilding market covering policy, regulation, planning, technology, new developments and products

Ben Roskrow

Housing supply as a moral issue

Nov. 1, 2016 Comment

Any concerns that the new Theresa May-led government would not continue the previous administration's drive to increase housing were allayed at the Conservativ…

Time for permeable materials

Sept. 30, 2016 Comment

Chris Harrop, group marketing and sustainability director at Marshalls, says that increased rainfall is an unavoidable consequence of climate change, and one w…

Steve Menary

City sticks with builders

Sept. 29, 2016 Comment

Steve Menary delves into what City analysts are recommending when it comes to the share prospects of the housebuilding industry plcs

Suzie Mayes

Quality queries

Sept. 29, 2016 Comment

In the summer, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment launched a report, More Homes, Fewer Complaints, putting forward recom…

Establishing a proper housing strategy

Sept. 29, 2016 Comment

The intermediate and private rented markets will become the key focus for government if it wants to increase housing numbers, argues Arcadis partner Richard Jo…

Stuttering stats "lose" a city the size of Newcastle

Stuttering stats "lose" a city the size of Newcastle

Sept. 29, 2016 Comment

HBF policy director David O'Leary looks at the world of government housebuilding statistics and reveals some surprising anomalies that have an impact on how po…

Ben Roskrow

Listening to the leaders

Sept. 29, 2016 Comment

If the industry can be likened to an army - and I feel for the sake of this comment piece it can be - then the metaphorical army looks to its commanders to lea…

Ben Roskrow

Holding our breath post Brexit

Sept. 6, 2016 Comment

Ben Roskrow looks at the phoney war following the EU vote and argues it is too early to assess the full impact of the Brexit decision. But it is a case of "so …

Innovation, capacity and skills

Innovation, capacity and skills

Sept. 1, 2016 Comment

H+H's director of housing Neil Thomas considers the latest initiative to address the skills crisis and argues that the industry needs to ensure that training p…

Brexit - how is it going?

Sept. 1, 2016 Comment

Richard Jones, partner at Arcadis, looks at the early effects of the vote to leave the EU on the UK residential sector