Features

The latest news, features, comment and analysis of the UK housebuilding market covering policy, regulation, planning, technology, new developments and products

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Growing companies

June 7, 2017

Several housebuilders are bursting with growth as demonstrated by their appearance in this year’s Sunday Times Profit Track 100 league table. Suzie Mayes talks…

Focus on Part M

Focus on Part M

May 3, 2017 Feature

Steve Evans, NHBC senior area technical manager, talks through the latest revisions to Part M - Access to Dwellings

Premier products

May 3, 2017 Feature

Suzie Mayes profiles the winners of this year's Housebuilder Product Awards, whose achievements will be celebrated at a winner's lunch in the summer

Post Brexit migration controls

Post-Brexit migration controls

May 3, 2017 Feature

John Stewart revisits the ongoing arguments surrounding immigration levels post Brexit, looks at the challenge of getting household projections right and focus…

white paper signals planning reform

White paper signals planning reforms

May 3, 2017 Feature

Mark Smulian looks at the planning aspects of the recent Housing White Paper and sees some subtle, and not so subtle, changes in how the government wants local…

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Legacy projects

May 3, 2017 Feature

Stephen Byfield, partner at Newgate Communications, looks at the issue of legacy. Could it be used to encourage councillors to build more in return for a bit o…

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Family favourites

May 3, 2017

William Davis is celebrating its second five-star customer satisfaction win. Suzie Mayes talks to its md Guy Higgins about running a family business, the compa…

Tools of the trade

April 6, 2017 Feature

Chris Windle speaks to the companies offering tools and machinery for the fundamentals of a housebuilder's work. Safety, strength and quick repairs are all ess…

The need for SuDS

April 6, 2017 Feature

Mark MacIntosh-Watson, national engineering manager at Brett Landscaping, investigates the possible reasons for a general reluctance, to implement a broader su…

Finding the path to health and wellbeing

April 6, 2017 Feature

A new report reveals the results of a detailed survey into the attitudes of home owners and renters to health and wellbeing and the home. Saint-Gobain, which c…