All Housing articles – Page 4
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Opinion
Affordable housing in city centres: necessity or luxury?
Mixing social housing in with privately owned homes is key to making British cities more vibrant and liveable
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News
Stolon Studio submits application for 669-home riverside scheme in Norwich
Proposals form part of wider plan for 3500 new homes in historic city
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Opinion
Let’s avoid the green belt becoming a giant cul-de-sac
Labour says it wants to build housing on the ‘grey belt’, but how can architects help ensure this doesn’t end up as just more suburban sprawl, asks Chloë Phelps
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Opinion
‘Could do better’: RIBA conference delivers verdict on Building Safety Act progress
Emma Dent Coad reports from the recent RIBA conference on the Building Safety Act
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Opinion
How the Duchy of Cornwall’s Faversham plans are putting ‘building beautiful’ to the test
As the Duchy of Cornwall proposes a new 2,500-home Poundbury-style scheme in Kent, Paul Smith argues greater competition is the real key to improving housing design
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News
Fraser Brown Mackenna unveils Bow housing scheme
Residential development centres on new courtyard space while deferring to context
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Features
Plans for 150,000 homes but no water to supply them. Does Gove’s vision for Cambridge stand a chance?
The housing secretary wants to build nearly three times as many homes as the target set by Cambridge’s own planners. Is there something he knows that they don’t? Daniel Gayne reports
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News
Howells' 234-home canalside development in Birmingham approved
The scheme will be built in Ladywood, close to the Birmingham main line canal
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Opinion
Chasing housing targets, cash-strapped Birmingham risks destroying its cultural soul
Birmingham is the canary in the coal mine, showing us how financially stricken local authorities are increasingly sacrificing cultural assets in pursuit of investment, writes Simeon Shtebunaev
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News
Henley Halebrown gets go-ahead for 316-bed student block next to Olympic Park
Scheme will include a 35% quota for affordable accommodation
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News
Green light for HTA’s 140-home west London scheme after second staircase changes
The HTA-designed scheme will include a mix of studios and one, two and three-bedroom apartments
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News
Building 90,000 new social homes a year ‘could boost British economy by £50bn’
Ahead of the general election, the NHF and Shelter are urging political parties to commit to a long-term plan which prioritises social housing
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Opinion
Why stewardship is critical to creating places where people want to live and work
In the drive to reach ambitious housing targets it is essential to plan for the long term care and sustainability of new developments, writes Hugh Petter
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Opinion
Money, trust and freedom: What councils need in order to build more homes
With market conditions for private developers difficult, councils can step in and build the homes we need but they require support from ministers, writes Anthony Okereke
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News
Former Greenpeace directors win planning for UK’s largest timber neighbourhood
Mae, Ash Sakula and Mole working on 685-home Phoenix project in East Sussex
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News
Gove unveils pre-election plans to increase affordable housing delivery
Housing secretary announces extra £3bn for affordable housing loan scheme to build 20,000 more homes, and restates intention to boost brownfield development
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Features
Will the government’s biodiversity plans prove a net gain for the housing sector?
From this month, all developments will have to show how they increase biodiversity by 10% in order to receive planning permission. Joey Gardiner looks at whether the policy is a win-win or too much too soon
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Features
How the life sciences boom is impacting the UK’s housing sector
The British life sciences industry is attracting record levels of investment and now housing developers are looking to take advantage of the opportunities
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News
DLUHC announces £80m brownfield funding pot with target of 8,000 new homes
Local authorities encouraged to bid for funds to bring derelict sites back into use
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Features
What happens to council housing developments when a local authority goes ‘bankrupt’?
When a section 114 ‘bankruptcy’ notice is put in place, a council’s non-statutory services are restricted and housebuilding ’goes to the back of the queue’. Yet the growing number of councils in this situation are finding ways to carry on building.