Features

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

Notes from the coalface of localism

April 1, 2011 Feature

Stephen Byfield, managing director of communications consultancy PPS Group, wonders whether the government understands what good consultation really costs.

Diamond jubilee

April 1, 2011 Feature

NHBC marks its 75th anniversary in 2011, celebrating three quarters of a century of raising standards in UK housebuilding to protect home owners. NHBC’s Tom Ho…

Going for Growth

April 1, 2011 Feature

David Ritchie has been ceo at Bovis for three years – a tough three years by anyone’s reckoning. But now he is ready to reap the rewards of the firm’s discipli…

Homebuilding and Renovating Show

March 1, 2011 Feature

The National Homebuilding & Renovating Show kicks off in Birmingham at the end of this month. And this year, a Trade Day has been launched in response to the t…

Pick Brick

March 1, 2011 Feature

The BDA has been representing the UK and Ireland’s clay brick industries for more than 60 years. Suzie Mayes speaks to marketing manager Katherina Lewis about …

Health and safety excellence

March 1, 2011 Feature

The NHBC’s Health and Safety Awards are underway for another year. Simon Mantle, NHBC’s manager of health and safety services, tells industry how it can win pr…

Sustainable sandpits

March 1, 2011 Feature

A ground-breaking consortium of developers and suppliers has come together to find ways to achieve Code level four through fabric solutions. As part of its inn…

Localism sacrificed

March 1, 2011 Feature

Stephen Byfield, managing director of communications consultancy PPS Group, speculates that the government’s need to maintain economic performance could yet sc…

High five

March 1, 2011 Feature

The NHBC Foundation marked its fifth anniversary with a debate on key sustainable housing issues, highlighting the need to win the hearts and minds of home own…

Affordable home hiatus

March 1, 2011 Feature

The government believes that its overhaul of the social housing system will yield 150,000 new homes to 2015. But Mark Smulian sees four factors that could get…