Poached Adonis brings a progressive political flavour to the table
It’s hard to miss this morning’s furore around the appointment of Labour peer, Lord Andrew Adonis, as chairman of the first National Infrastructure Commission (NIC)– an organisation that will advise...
View ArticleThe London Commuter Belt/M11 Housing Market Area (2015)
After some delay the West Essex and East Hertfordshire Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) was published in September 2015. In this Guidance Note we take a look at the numbers and their...
View ArticleResidential Research: Development Opportunities 2015
In our latest residential research with Knight Frank, we identify Local Authorities in England where economic and planning data, combined with regional knowledge, suggest good fundamentals for...
View ArticleA progressive estate of mind?
Social housing is in crisis. Demand far outstrips supply, existing estates are often in desperate need of attention and rapidly diminishing housing stock is not being replenished – a problem felt most...
View ArticleHomeownership: The ‘be all’ and ‘end all’?
So we have a new housebuilding industry/process ‘Review’ proposed? The Redfern Review announced today will have elicited a mixture of responses from the industry. On the one hand we all question the...
View ArticleThe South Wales Housing Gap
2016 is a crucial year for Wales. May will host the Welsh Government Assembly Elections, which will task a new administration with delivering housing over the next five years, five years after we were...
View ArticleMeeting the Development Needs of Yorkshire
After seven years at the helm of the Barton Willmore Leeds office, I have been right in the heart of the development industry delivering consents for major schemes. Consequently, as well as inevitably,...
View Article“Be radical or accept a reality check” – message to New Mayoral candidates on...
Neither Sadiq nor Zac has a realistic hope of hitting manifesto pledge targets for increased delivery of new homes for Londoners unless they are prepared to be genuinely radical – this was the message...
View ArticleWhy Self-Build?
It is well rehearsed that we are not building enough homes in the UK. Custom and self-build homes provide an additional pipeline of supply that may not suffer from the same blockages that volume...
View ArticleBristol needs more homes
As I have stated in my post following the Bristol Mayoral hustings, Bristol needs more homes. Currently, we are only building 4,000 homes a year in the West of England, 3,500 short of the estimated...
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