Features

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

Feeling proud – this year’s Pride in the Job winners

Feb. 1, 2009 Feature

NHBC’s annual Pride in the Job Awards held in January honoured site managers who have demonstrated high levels of professionalism in every aspect of their work…

Taking stock – the Good Homes Alliance questions whether we are on the right path to sustainability

Feb. 1, 2009 Feature

Neil May, chairman of the Good Homes Alliance, argues that government and industry are set on the wrong course to tackle sustainable housebuilding, a course th…

Accolades in Arsenal

Feb. 1, 2009 Feature

The Armouries is the second phase of Berkeley Homes’ Royal Arsenal, a mixed-use regeneration scheme to revive a disused military site in Woolwich, London. Suzi…

Mixed messages

Feb. 1, 2009 Feature

Nick Lomax, md of LCE Architects, talks to Allison Heller about the challenges of designing mixed-use schemes, developing a carbon neutral home and LCE’s desig…

Hank Dittmar interview

Feb. 1, 2009 Feature

Hank Dittmar, chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation, has throughout his working life been a big supporter of timeless but ecological ways of planning and …

Off plan

Feb. 1, 2009 Feature

Planning applications in the UK fell by more than a quarter last year and larger housebuilders are reining in their planning programmes for 2009. Steve Menary …

Carbon Crunch

Feb. 1, 2009 Feature

Whether you build one home a year or 10,000, the new proposed definition of zero carbon homes is going to directly affect you. And, as Ben Roskrow reports, you…

Hopes for a quick and strong recovery

Feb. 1, 2009 Feature

There are reasons to be cheerful if you look for them hard enough argues Richard Jones, head of residential and regeneration at EC Harris

Checking the change

Dec. 1, 2008 Feature

Suzie Mayes delves into the troubled world of development finance to find out what hope there is for cash for residential schemes next year, bearing in mind th…

Eco appeal

Dec. 1, 2008 Feature

There is no point in building homes to new standards of sustainability if consumers will not buy into it. AsCarrie-Ann Skinnerfinds out, getting buyers to embr…