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Planners want to be loved

[MMC-IMG=894-A=Left] Planners want to be loved and respected. So they need to move beyond their historic legacy of promoting socially-problematic tower blocks, and their present attempts to meddle in design details and dictate how people “ought to” live

Helen Board

Helen Board rounds up this month’s key developments, including the restoration of the Victorian Candle Factory in London’s Battersea and a striking art deco apartment building in West Malling, Kent

Success stories

[MMC-IMG=889-A=Left] Despite construction being one of the largest industries in the UK, women still account for less than 10% of the workforce. As the industry looks to attract more women into construction related careers, Melissa Blamey reports on the h

Sitting Pretty

[MMC-IMG=888-A=Right] David Pretty was thrust into the limelight as chief executive of Barratt on the untimely death of Frank Eaton in 2002. He now runs the firm that built more homes than anyone else last year. Steve Menary met him to get his views on th

City breaks

[MMC-IMG=870-A=Left] Steve Menary analyses the latest results of Housebuilder’s survey of who is planning to build where in the UK and finds mixed feelings in London but the majors pushing forward in the rest of the south east

Design and deliver

[MMC-IMG=869-A=Left] On the eve of his second keynote speech to the industry at the Housing Market Intelligence conference, housing minister Keith Hill tells Ben Roskrow that he needs private sector housebuilders to step up a gear to tackle the country’s

Expanding housebuilding

[MMC-IMG=868-A=Left] Many people are sceptical the government will achieve a substantial increase in housebuilding. John Stewart looks at the evidence and finds that the planning system is gearing up for a big increase

UPDATE your at-a-glance guide to the key issues in the housebuilding industry

St Albans station

IR crackdown on bogus self-employment