Features

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

Urban renewal focus: salford

July 1, 2007 Feature

In 2011 the BBC will move to Salford. Chris Windle finds out how it is kick-starting regeneration in a city where the housing market had collapsed, in the firs…

High hopes

July 1, 2007 Feature

A daunting task awaits the newly created National Housing and Planning Advice Unit. It must arrest and reverse an apparently inexorable rise in the number of p…

Unlock The Land

July 1, 2007 Feature

There are only two routes to higher housing numbers: higher densities and more land with planning permission. The recovery in housebuilding since it reached a …

HBF mini-manifesto

July 1, 2007 Feature

The HBF has drawn up a “mini-manifesto” for housing, which, if adopted by prime minister Gordon Brown, will help to address the country’s housing shortage, it …

CLG disputes packs loophole claim

July 1, 2007 Feature

Sellers may be able to get away without paying for a home information pack (HIP) because of a loophole in the regulations, the Royal Institution of Chartered S…

Technically speaking

June 1, 2007 Feature

Andrew Leech discovers how home technology, or “infotainment,” can put the wow factor into your schemes

Feet first

June 1, 2007 Feature

Energy efficient and sound resistant flooring systems are the order of the day. Tim Palmer discovers how suppliers are meeting the needs of the modern housebui…

Health check

June 1, 2007 Feature

The corporate agenda must fully embrace health and safety recommends Simon Mancle, who oversees NHBC’s audit and accreditation scheme aimed at reducing on-site…

Development of the Month

June 1, 2007 Feature

The London Olympics almost scuppered Telford’s colourful Icona scheme as the site in Stratford narrowly escaped a compulsory purchase order. It took some creat…

FACE to FACE

June 1, 2007 Feature

Former champion cyclist and new BRE chief executive DR PETER BONFIELD says the research group is well placed to help housebuilders meet today’s challenges