Carl Brown
Carl Brown is head of content at Building, Housing Today and Building Design.
He helps to shape the news, insight and analysis across all three titles.
He has many years of experience writing about the housing development market.
Contact info
- Tel:
- 07947 251 424
- Email:
- carl.brown@assemblemediagroup.co.uk
NewsLords committee finds grey belt policy ‘unlikely to have significant impact’ on housebuilding
Lord Moylan warns Angela Rayner that policy has been “rushed and incoherent”
NewsReeves promises not to ‘renege’ on building safety regulation as 90 new high-rise projects held up by rules
Work on more than 700 blocks are waiting on design approval from regulator under Building Safety Act, new figures show
NewsMinisters pledge to double the size of the Oxford-Cambridge economy in boost for life sciences sector
Initiative has potential to add £78bn in GDP to UK economy
NewsStreeting revises timetable for New Hospital Programme with five schemes facing delay until 2039
Health secretary contrasts “honest, realistic, deliverable timetable” to Boris Johnson’s original pledge
NewsGreen light for Grimshaw and Figure Ground’s 10,000-home ‘garden town’ near Harlow
Places for People and Taylor Wimpey get go ahead after terms of section 106 deal agreed by East Hertfordshire Council
NewsClients show ‘total lack of engagement’ with Building Safety Act, says engineering services body
Trade body says government needs to begin public awareness campaign
NewsRayner to set out ‘devolution by default’ plan to give mayors more powers over development
MHCLG white paper to propose local government shakeup and more strategic powers for mayors to guide housing, transport and skills projects
NewsRayner announces plan to bypass local committees to stop developments ‘getting stuck in the system’
Housing secretary announces plan to remove ‘subjectiveness’ and allow applications to be approved if they follow the local plan and the NPPF
NewsTaskforce calls for cross-departmental unit to lead national older people’s housing strategy
Wide-ranging paper also calls for planning presumption in favour of later living housing and requirements on Homes England to support its expansion
NewsGovernment considers reforming Right to Buy to safeguard council housing stock
Newly-built housing could be exempt for a set period of time and eligibility periods extended as part of Rayner’s package of reforms to help councils protect their housing stock
NewsMPs launch inquiry into environmental impact of Starmer’s planning reforms
Environmental audit committee to probe environmental sustainability of the government’s plans for 1.5m homes
NewsNew Towns Taskforce seeks views on suitable sites for developments of more than 10,000 homes
Independent panel set up by government and chaired by Michael Lyons issues call for evidence
NewsConstruction output rises at fastest rate since June 2021, PMI report says
Civil engineering best-performing sector amid ‘robust’ demand for renewable energy infrastructure
NewsRayner ditches review into London Plan ordered by predecessor Gove
Housing secretary says decision will enable ‘partnership approach’ with City Hall
NewsFurther 7,000 residential buildings outside official statistics could be unsafe, warns minister
Rushanara Ali warns those responsible for thousands of buildings have yet to apply to cladding safety scheme to fix defects
NewsHouse of Lords committee launches inquiry into government’s ‘grey belt’ plans
Peers will examine Labour’s ‘golden rules’ for development on the green belt
News‘Every construction professional should read this’: how the industry reacted to the Grenfell Inquiry report
Industry bodies have been reacting to the long-awaited Phase 2 report and its 1,700 pages of findings
NewsGovernment commits to ‘system wide’ construction products reform as CE marking deadline is extended again
Package of building safety measures include scrapping national fire testing standards and mandating sprinklers in care homes
NewsDagenham fire started from materials kept on scaffolding, initial probe suggests
Institution of Fire Engineers releases detail of preliminary investigation into huge blaze
NewsRayner demands faster action on remediation of buildings following blaze
Housing secretary says she ‘expects’ more from regulators and partners following huge Dagenham fire