All Housing articles
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NewsOBR predicts net additions to housing stock will fall to 220,000 next year
Body forecasts 1.3m additions in UK from 2025/26 to 2029/30, casting doubt on ability of government to hit 1.5m homes target for England
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OpinionHousebuilding: The goose that lays the golden egg is dead
If the government is serious about building 1.5 million new homes, it must start by recognising the scale of the shift that took place in 1991 and everything that has been piled on since, writes Hugo Owen
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NewsGreen light for PLP’s student resi tower next to Waterloo station
Plans for 17-storey scheme to replace Edwardian office building with 233 student beds
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NewsJohn Lewis pulls plug on build-to-rent business which had aimed to build 10,000 homes
Retailer cites shift in financial environment, with high interest rates and less stable returns
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NewsGateway 2 sign-off for Rio Architects’ 46-storey co-living tower in Canary Wharf
Rio Architects-designed scheme the largest co-living project to be granted construction approval by the BSR
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NewsVolunteers submit Bell Phillips social housing scheme in Brent
Art Deco-inspired block of 19 social rent homes developed by local community land trust
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NewsGreen light for 5plus’ 1,000-home Bradford regeneration scheme
Detailed approval also given for 97-home first pgased affordable townhouses will be delivered at Bradford City Village
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NewsGrid Architects submits revised plans for O2 shopping centre with affordable housing cut to 20%
Amendments show influence of Heatherwick Studio’s Humanise campaign on design of 1,800-home scheme’s first phase
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OpinionWe can afford to build greener houses – and there are many good reasons why we should
Al Scott, co-founder of IF_DO, has been working on a new sustainable construction methodology for housing. He believes it can help raise standards for both people and the planet and need not cost the earth
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OpinionRemembering Kelvin Campbell: Probably the most influential urban designer of his generation
Kelvin Campbell passed away over Christmas. David Rudlin pays tribute to a fascinating contrarian who was always inspirational if also slightly intimidating
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FeaturesWhat unified ownership can teach us about today’s housing strategies
Samuel Hughes traces how unified land ownership has shaped some of the most successful neighbourhoods in history and asks what lessons this holds for today’s housing strategy
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OpinionWhere, then, do we really wish to live?
Hundreds of studies into what people like and why have produced clear and consistent results. So it is beholden on us to build places that give residents what they want and need, writes Nicholas Boys Smith
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OpinionProtecting small builders can solve the UK’s housing crisis
The backbone of postwar Britain’s vast housebuilding drive, small builders now face extinction as regulatory barriers and policy layering make it ever harder for them to compete, build and survive. Hugo Owen has some solutions
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NewsHousing starts up 18% in 2025, official figures show
Steve Reed says uptick represents ‘green shoots of recovery’ in market
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NewsDLA submits plans for passivhaus mews scheme in Camden
Single-storey garages to be replaced by four homes and an office block
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NewsMosaic files plans for 287-unit student scheme in central Glasgow
Proposals would see existing office building demolished
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OpinionWhy we need to rediscover council housing
A significant increase in the number of social and affordable homes is required if we are to get close to hitting the government’s targets, David Rudlin writes
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NewsDevelopment partner picked on two key plots on 10,000-home Bristol Temple Quarter scheme
Planning to be submitted in 2027
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NewsHodder & Partners submits updated plans for student tower at historic Manchester mill hit by fire last summer
Decision on scheme drawn up by Hodder + Partners set for spring
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NewsMetropolitan Workshop picked to design three towers next to Stratford station
Scheme to be third phase of wider 2,200-home redevelopment of 1960s Carpenters Estate