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London planning intervention ‘lacks ambition’

Housing secretary Steve Reed The housing secretary and the mayor of London have confirmed emergency measures to unblock dozens of stalled sites and build thousands…

adminMarch 26, 2026

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SME house-builders losing appetite to invest

SME house-builders are not feeling good about market conditions New findings from the Home Builders Federation’s (HBF) SME Sentiment Survey show that 70% of SME…

adminMarch 20, 2026

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Funding approved for Hackney council housing

Hackney Council’s cabinet has approved construction of 400 new council homes across 14 council-owned sites in the borough.The site include underused garages and derelict offices,…

adminJanuary 30, 2026

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Liverpool mayor sets out housing ambitions

Liverpool regional mayor Steve RotherhamLiverpool regional mayor Steve Rotherham has been working with local authorities and housing associations in the region to identify more than…

adminJanuary 19, 2026

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Planning permissions for new homes hit 15-year low

Planning permission was granted for just 42,000 new homes in England during the third quarter of this year, a 31% drop on the same quarter…

adminDecember 19, 2025

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Salford farmland to be developed for housing

Lay of the land at Hazelhurst Farm House-builders Story Homes and Taylor Wimpey have exchanged contracts with Peel Land Group to purchase land at Hazelhurst…

adminNovember 25, 2025

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Government takes stake in housing JV

The Impact and Places Partnership is 40% owned by Homes England, the government’s regeneration agency, and 60% by Swiss Life Asset Managers and Capital &…

adminNovember 21, 2025

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Housing stats show target disappearing

Between April 2024 and March 2025, there were 190,600 new homes built in England, according to latest government statistics.Add in the 17,710 new homes created…

adminNovember 21, 2025

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Builders ‘speechless’ at automatic approval for housing by stations

A £925m residential development in Newcastle Forth Goods Yard is one of the first projects of the newly launched Platform4, specialist developer of surplus railway…

adminNovember 19, 2025

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Stop blaming nature, MPs tell government

In its report, Environmental sustainability and housing growth, the House of Commons’ cross-party Environmental Audit Committee challenges the “lazy narrative” that nature is a blocker…

adminNovember 17, 2025