Industry showing the way on low carbon
It is Awards time here. As this edition of Housebuilder lands on your doorstep we will be handing out the Housebuilder Product Awards at Edgbaston cricket ground while this month the judges also assembled to decide on the Housebuilder Awards.
Profit, planet and people
Lend Lease intends to build more than 1,000 homes a year from 2017 - five times what it delivered last year. Ben Roskrow talks to the firm's head of residential, Richard Cook, about his ambitious growth plans
Enjoy the calm - a political storm is brewing
The writer and anecdotalist Matthew Parris addressed this year’s Construction Products Association annual lunch and he did a fine job.
Early blows struck in 2015 election fight
The general election campaign is well underway if the performances of housing minister Kris Hopkins and shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds at last month's HBF Policy conference are anything to go by. Ben Roskrow reports on the opening exchanges and the other conference highlights
Osborne fuels confidence in election countdown
In the clear skies of a resurgent housebuilding industry, the impact of the removal of Help to Buy was the cloud on the horizon the size of a man's hand.
Politicians line up on the big housing issue
Of the City statements and trading updates issued this month, it was CALA's that really caught my eye. And not just because of the launch of the firm's two new regions and the confirmation of its ambitious plans to grow by 150% in the next three years or so.
Thank goodness for Kirsty and Phil
Finally, a programme showing the benefits of new homes and not treating all developers as greedy, immoral monsters
Continuing the Wilson dynasty at Davidsons
Ben Roskrow meets James Wilson, managing director of Leicestershire developer Davidsons, and finds it is not only the firm’s name that reflects the influence of his father David
More of the same in 2014 please
All three main political parties are being vocal about the need to build houses and are clambering over themselves to keep the industry on side
The scientist driving innovation at Larkfleet
Ben Roskrow meets Karl Hick, the maverick chief executive of the Larkfleet Group, whose love of science drives innovation at the Lincolnshire-based developer
