Features

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

The big takeover

June 1, 2007 Feature

Barratt dominates the housebuilding scene across nine of Britain’s 11 regions, following its March acquisition of Wilson Bowden. Steve Menary reports on the wi…

Evolving alliance

June 1, 2007 Feature

Social housing providers and developers must find increasingly innovative ways to work together, advise Duncan Salmon and Peter Stockdale (pictured) of Campbel…

Supply & demand

June 1, 2007 Feature

Chris Windle examines why a growing land supply crisis could dent the government’s ability to deliver 200,000 homes a year

Think nationally, act locally

June 1, 2007 Feature

While national politics undergoes a seismic shift this month, the results of the May local elections will also have some major implications for developers acro…

Planning fatigue

June 1, 2007 Feature

The planning white paper makes some radical suggestions, but Ian Thorn of Meeting Place Communications suggests an overhaul of the entire system’s structure

The industry’s stars

June 1, 2007 Feature

The people who mattered most to the industry in 2006 can now be revealed…

The politics of aspiration

June 1, 2007 Feature

Falling home ownership levels among aspirational young people dictates that housing will be a prime vote grabber in the next election; Gordon Brown has seen …

Stone on a roll

June 1, 2007 Feature

Crest Nicholson chief executive Stephen Stone tells Allison Heller how he is gearing for growth, with his new heavyweight backers fully behind the brand

Numbers To Fall

June 1, 2007 Feature

Taking all this evidence together points towards a decline in housing completions in the immediate future. The slowdown in 2006 was probably a turning point, r…

Blair\'s Legacy: Was it good for you?

June 1, 2007 Feature

Set the numbers against the rhetoric and Blair’s legacy on housing looks at best pretty shabby