The weakest link?
According to the NHBC, increasing solar PV installations are leading to more problems with leaking roofs. Redland’s head of marketing and business development Richard Hartley suggests a reason why
Steady applications
Steve Menary looks at the latest planning league tables for the year to September 2011 which show who is planning to build and where. Applications are up in six out of nine English regions as well as in Scotland
Housebuilder awards 2011
Housebuilder presents the winners and runners up of its prestigious Awards, created for the industry by the industry, which showcase the most imaginative schemes, products and initiatives housebuilding has to offer
The Top 25 Housebuilders
The new Housing Market Intelligence Report will be launched at the Housing Market Intelligence conference on October 12. It includes the Top 75 housebuilders table plus detailed analysis of what is happening in all aspects of the industry – the market, planning, mortgages, regulations and much more. On the next pages Housing Market Intelligence Report editor Brian Green gives a taste of the findings of the report and reveals the Top 25 of the 75 builders, ranked by seven criteria.
Renewing interest
The renewables technology market is in its infancy. Recognising this, the NHBC Foundation has produced a best practice guide to installing renewable energy systems. NHBC’s Graham Perrior takes a look inside
That elusive allocation
Stephen Byfield of PPS Group says that, with the localism agenda, strategic land departments will have to speed up
SWOT 2011
Housebuilder’s annual exclusive analysis of the state of the industry and the views of a 23 strong expert panel on the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats facing housebuilding right now. Ben Roskrow delivers the results
Pitching the roof at planners
Richard Hartley, head of marketing and business development at Redland, speculates on the future of roof design
Quality streets
NHBC has chosen its Quality Award winners in the first round of this year's Pride in the Job campaign. Housebuilder looks at the history of these important awards and how they are evolving
Localism–the end of term report
Stephen Byfield, managing director of communications consultancy PPS group, gives his summer term report on the government's planning policies
