Lazy Legoland comments miss improvements in design
Ben Roskrow argues that Grant Shapps' attacks on new home design were somewhat lazy. Whilst there is always room for improvement, new home design has improved significantly in recent years
The long road back
Fourteen firms remain on the Housebuilder index after the heavily indebted McInerney was removed. Steve Menary looks at how all of the other index players are performing
The Localism Bill – Richard Jones good or bad for housing?
Richard Jones, head of regeneration and growth at EC Harris, looks at the impact of the Localism Bill on housing.
A summit for action
HBF executive chairman Stewart Baseley reports back on last month’s first time buyer summit and welcomes the Zero Carbon Hub’s funding announcement
Post-crash housing recovery stalls
Housing completions have slumped to an 87-year low. John Stewart argues that recovery will require a restoration of mortgage lending, a big increase in the supply of permissioned land coming through England’s radically new planning system, and drastically reduced central and local government regulatory demands.
Measuring the effect of the Coalition's housing policies
The industry expressed concern that without targets there would be no way of measuring whether enough new homes were being built. Ben Roskrow looks at a new initiative that might just help
Marginal insight
As the industry embraces the unknown world of 2011, Steve Menary looks at the housebuilders who have reported to the City since the start of the year
Partnerships paramount in new affordable housing world
Richard Jones, head of regeneration and growth at EC Harris, analyses the new affordable housing regime and the opportunity presented by the Regional Growth Fund
Time to deliver on Stewart Baseley housing supply promises
Home Builders Federation executive chairman Stewart Baseley argues that this coalition government’s promise to increase housing supply is one that the nation can ill afford for it to break
