All Construction business: strategy, risk and regulations articles – Page 44
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OpinionWill Grenfell change everything?
When just one volume of building regs refers to 93 other documents, it’s clear that we need to go back to first principles, says Julia Park
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OpinionWill England’s new metro mayors make a difference?
Their powers are limited and the government’s motive might have been to off-load responsibility, but this exercise in devolution could still be a good thing. Julia Park takes a look
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OpinionWhen is overcrowding not overcrowding?
When you could sleep in the kitchen. Julia Park provides an illuminating history of the many ways landlords and the authorities have dodged their responsibility to provide decent housing rights up to the present day
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OpinionIs it time to tax land value uplift for community benefit?
The uplift in land value has been taxed at rates from 100% in 1947 to zero today. A sensible level of taxation could help fund social infrastructure and affordable housing says Julia Park
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OpinionWith homelessness rising we need action to reverse the trend
50 years after Cathy Come Home homelessness is still rising despite official claims it is decreasing.. Good quality, spacious homes could help tackle the problem says Julia Park
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OpinionThe white paper that wasn’t worth the wait
The housing white paper promises much but does little to tackle the real issues we’re facing, finds Julia Park
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OpinionThe Green Belt: We need to be convinced that the end will justify the means
With the housing white paper due out imminently and talk of building in the Green Belt Julia Park sets out what new developments need to win over the Nimby’s.
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OpinionAffordable housing is back on the agenda
Julia Park runs a ruler over recent announcements to increase the provision of affordable homes and concludes this is mostly good news
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OpinionCan Khan achieve a City For All Londoners?
Julia Park puts Sadiq Khan’s ambitious rhetoric about equality and success under the microscope
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OpinionWhat the Lords have to say about the housing crisis
This summer a House of Lords report set out some informed solutions for our dysfunctional housing market - a shame it’s been overshadowed by all the recent politicking
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OpinionWhen is a home a dwellinghouse and when is it a family unit?
Julia Park shows up the many inconsistencies in the UK’s Use Classes and suggests it is time to rewrite the planning lexicon
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OpinionA hundred years ago we decided to build homes fit for heroes. What happened?
Tudor Walters, Parker Morris and Parker Boris. Radiograms and MP3s. Julia Park gets out a tape measure and a dictionary
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OpinionWe’re older but are we any wiser?
Persuading older people to downsize unlocks homes for others. Yet just 3% of new units are designed for elderly people. Julia Park asks whether a new report has any answers
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OpinionWhen it comes to housing it's people who count, not units per hectare
There are endless ways of calculating density, each with a different physical and social outcome. Julia Park does the maths
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AnalysisDoes the government have the sticking power for proper estate regeneration?
Ministers want estates rebuilt as streets - yet they preside over a funding system that makes this unviable. Julia Park uncovers some cognitive dissonance
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OpinionLondon won’t find the answer until it asks the right question
House prices in the capital have risen 45% under Boris Johnson. Infrastructure is at breaking point. We urgently need to decide what kind of city we want London to be, says Julia Park
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OpinionWhy the Starter Homes Programme is a non-starter
Discounted starter homes could distort the market and make it difficult for first time buyers to sell on says Julia Park.
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OpinionWill someone please sort out this mess
The Housing Standards Review has spawned a litany of inconsistencies. Julia Park knocks some heads together
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OpinionThe Housing Bill simply doesn’t add up
The new laws will only help people who can already afford to help themselves and does nothing to address the real problems, argues Julia Park
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FeaturesWhat the housing standards review means for architects
As the government unveils nationwide space and security standards, Julia Park considers what’s good – and what remains to be done