Beyond the four walls
While conversations around air quality typically focus on conditions inside the home, the external environment is equally influential, says MEC Consulting's Daniel Newbery
From stigma to solution
James Cogan, director of planning consultancy Boyer, looks at how council housebuilding should be built for success
The Social and Affordable Homes Programme: A good market disruptor?
Guy Emmerson, partner at Bruton Knowles, considers the government’s Social and Affordable Homes Programme and council housebuilding plans
The Future Homes Standard – what smart controls must deliver next
Neil Budd, head of residential sales at IMI Heatmiser, looks at the role of intelligent controls within modern heating systems
How digitalisation is reshaping housebuilding
David Lowe, chief executive officer at engineering surveyor Survey Solutions, explores how digitalisation is transforming the role of survey data in housebuilding
How do we build quickly without repeating the mistakes of the past?
As the drive for social and council housing accelerates, H+H UK’s managing director Calum Forsyth argues that speed and quality do not have to be mutually exclusive
Why the biggest risk to delivering 1.5 million homes is not planning
The constraint on housing delivery is not just planning but the technical capacity to build, according to Ross Constant, group head of technical at Allison Homes
More land will not deliver more homes without more buyers
Planning reform is beginning to widen the pipeline, but low sales rates and accumulated costs are making housebuilders more cautious about what they buy and build says Ian Barnett, group land and development director at estate agency group LRG
How the 21st century new town will integrate industry and residential
Successful new towns should no longer separate new homes and industry but seamlessly connect them, says Nick Diment, director, head of Boyer London & south east
What reorganisation means for housebuilding
Bringing planning, highways and infrastructure together could improve delivery, says Stuart Crickett, director of Boyer. But the transition will demand clarity
