Stress testing the policy burden
Escalating government demands on residential land values risk undermining the very policy objectives that policy and regulation are designed to achieve
NuLab NuGhettos
Home Information Packs
The Walrus
Everyone’s efforts are focused on getting Swedish cowshed technology into UK housebuilding
Customers and the new policy agenda
The last 12 months have seen a revolution in housing and planning policies, which will have major implications for new home buyers
Slug spin
Crest has been the first to be gunged by selling its £60,000 homes in Buckinghamshire for £175,000
Never the twain
Deterring beaurocracy
Planning reforms inevitably founder in process; timescales must be ruthlessly enforced
The least worst option
The debate about the government’s proposed planning gain supplement (PGS) calls to mind Churchill’s famous comment on democracy: “No one pretends that democra…
Customers come first
Whatever design, technical or construction solutions are devised to produce zero carbon homes, the government’s target of 200,000 zero carbon homes by 2016 wil…
