Pendulums in planning
Stephen Byfield, managing director of communications consultancy PPS, casts his eye over recent moves by and within government and marvels at the speed with which policies change.
Two sides to an interesting political experiment
The government has introduced new initiatives to try to boost housebuilding, focusing on easing the planning delays and affordable housing demands. Housebuilders hope this will work, but, as Mark Smulian reports, local authorities are by no means convinced.
Britain's Biggest Housebuilders
The Top 25 Housebuilders: The 2012 Housing Market Intelligence Report will be launched at the Housing Market Intelligence conference in London on October 3. It includes the Top 75 housebuilder listing, industry expert analysis, data, statistics and information.
SWOT 2012
The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats facing the housebuilding industry – as voted for by Housebuilder's expert industry panel.
The Roofng Masterclass – brought to you by Redland
In January this year, the NHBC made changes to its standards focusing on the issue of mechanical fixing of ridge and hip tiles on roofs. How has the industry fared since the change? Redland technical manager, Dr Kevin Ley, investigates A dry fix future for roof tiles.
Tile guide
The industry is adapting well to the revised standards on pitched roofs, which became effective on January 1 2012. Graham Perrior, NHBC's head of standards and technical, looks at the reasoning behind some of the changes and additional guidance that has been developed to assist builders.
Planning in perspective
The latest planning tables give a mixed picture, but an improved one on quarter one's results which were plagued by uncertainty over the planning system. Steve Menary reports.
Localism? Never heard of it
Stephen Byfield, managing director of communications consultancy PPS, says there are signs that the government is rowing back from localism. If so, it needs to knock back unambitious local plans.
CALA in a good place
Scottish-based housebuilder CALA Homes has turned out a solid trading performance over the past year. Suzie Mayes talks to ceo Alan Brown about CALA's results and many other strengths, while discovering how its long running court case affected the business.
Sustainable housebuilding – the answers lie in careful planning
The Local Housing Delivery Group has produced two key reports on viability of local plans and on local standards for delivering new homes. Sir John Harman, chairman of the group, looks at what the reports tell us
