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UK housebuilding

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Building new UK towns needs radical approach, says task force chair

    Michael Lyons says potential locations for housing developments will be identified next summer

    A person stands with a dog in a grassy field filled with yellow wildflowers, with new housing developments visible in the background at Trumpington Meadows, on the outskirts of Cambridge.
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    UK planning reform: how to get developers to build more houses

    Leader of Tory-led Wiltshire council says ‘more carrots and sticks’ are needed

    Montage shows new homes in Warminster against a data background
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    UK property
    Developer seeks permission for two new London skyscrapers

    Long-delayed overhaul of Earl's Court exhibition site edges closer as ministers try to unlock ‘stalled’ projects

    A computer generated image of the Earls Court redevelopment plan
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    UK government teams up with Lloyds and Barratt to deliver housing sites

    Partnership aimed at developing large-scale projects

    Aerial view of a housing development under construction in Bishop's Stortford, UK, showing several houses with solar panels on their roofs and others in various stages of construction
  • Sunday, 1 September, 2024
    UK councils demand extra cash and end of Right to Buy to boost social housing

    Report says £644mn needed to clear backlogs and start building

    A group of three people, two with pushchairs, walk past the hoarding, which reads: “We’re building thousands of new council homes across Southwark”
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Number of new homes being built in UK drops sharply

    Labour government is reforming planning rules in bid to boost housing supply over next five years

    A builder at work on the roof of a house
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Bellway PLC
    UK housebuilder Bellway walks away from Crest Nicholson takeover bid

    Crest Nicholson shares plunge in latest blow to struggling developer

    Protective sheeting outside homes at a Bellway residential construction site in Cuffley, UK
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    Labour faces tough task in winning community support for building boom

    Experts warn that public backing for development is essential in new government’s bid to end housing crisis

  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Ministers push for more housing in northern England and Tory shires

    Councils will not be able to reject developments on grounds of being ‘out of character’

    Construction of new housing estate, Grantham, Lincolnshire
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    UK politics
    Labour launches fast-track consultation in bid to rip up England’s planning rules

    Overhaul includes restoration of mandatory housing targets and relaxation of greenbelt rules

    Angela Rayner speaks to apprentices
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    John Lewis Partnership PLC
    John Lewis wins first planning permission to build housing

    Retailer will create 320 rental flats and 30 affordable homes in initial project

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    The State of Britain
    Stockport’s housing saga mirrors wider challenge for Labour planning reform Premium content

    The town faces the same Nimbyism and conflicting attitudes towards the greenbelt that stifle much of the national debate

    Stockport market hall
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    UK ministers set to change environmental rules to boost housebuilding

    Property industry claims ‘nutrient neutrality’ regulations have halted construction of tens of thousands of homes

    A roofer works on a residential property construction site in Chelmsford
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Flood Re
    UK flood insurance scheme chief warns Labour on housebuilding risks

    Government plan for 1.5mn new homes must consider location and drainage as extreme weather becomes more common

    Andy Bord
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Labour’s homebuilding plans at risk from skills shortage, industry says

    Construction sector training body warns of shortfall of 150,000 workers

    A construction worker uses a level to lay a block on a residential site
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    UK overhauls planning rules in race to build new homes

    Local communities can decide ‘how, not if’ new developments go ahead

    A house under construction
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Will a shake-up in land values boost Labour’s housebuilding plans? 

    Intervention could become one of the most contentious parts of government’s planning overhaul

    A montage of new housing with a crane against a backdrop of pound notes
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen
    What’s next after Trump assassination attempt

    Donald Trump called for national unity as the FBI investigated his attempted assassination

  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Housebuilders warn construction lag threatens hopes to ‘get Britain building’

    Barratt says it will build fewer homes this year as it tries to catch up from effects of market slump

    A construction site in Aylesbury, England
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Richard Parr
    We need a plan to revolutionise the planning system

    To ‘get Britain building again’, as the new Labour government promises, the broken and underfunded system must be fixed

    A mansion house, with scaffolding under construction, surrounded by trees
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Lex
    UK housebuilders still look solid as reformers circle Premium content

    Labour’s promises are not going to spur a private sector solution to Britain’s housing crisis

    A worker stands on scaffolding to work outside a newly built residential property at a Barratt construction
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Crest Nicholson ‘minded’ to recommend £720mn Bellway takeover bid

    FTSE housebuilder poised to accept sweetened offer from rival

    A Crest Nicholson housing development
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Labour must be ‘belligerent’ on affordable homes, housebuilder warns

    Stamping out ‘grey areas’ and loopholes will cut land values and boost construction, Vistry says

    A builder constructing a roof
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Explainer
    How Labour will try to unlock Britain’s planning system

    Rachel Reeves’s proposals rely not on a single silver bullet but on a mixed package of policies

    Houses under construction
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Labour to set out details of planning system overhaul within days

    The reforms are a critical part of the party’s plan to pull the UK out of a decade of low growth and productivity

    Builders work on a new housing construction in Crewe, England
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