Saying is one thing, doing is another
This time last week I was at the Housing Rally in London. My daughter and I joined over 2,500 people to stand up for building more homes. It was quite different to my day job, as you might imagine it’s...
View ArticleLook out for our team attending the Midlands Infrastructure & Regeneration...
Tomorrow (28 April) four key members of our Solihull team will be attending the the Midlands Infrastructure and Regeneration Conference in Birmingham, which focuses on the delivery of economic growth...
View ArticleThe Midlands Housing Crisis: What we know and what we recommend
If you didn’t get to attend the Midlands Infrastructure and Regeneration Conference (28 April) and meet our team, you can download our short guide which highlights what Mark Sitch, Senior Partner...
View ArticleLondon’s Housing Crisis: What does it really mean?
Now that the General Election is behind us, London’s focus will naturally shift towards the Mayoral Election next year. Couple this with a further review of the London Plan, it is clear that now is...
View ArticleBarton Willmore Reveal London’s Top Second-Tier Town Hotspots
Harrow, Hounslow, Wood Green, Bromley and Sutton offer significant opportunities for increased density and the supply of new homes outside of London’s central core – according to planning experts at...
View ArticlePRS Policy in London: who is open for business?
In this Guidance Note, we consider the Private Rental Sector (PRS) as a possible solution to London’s housing crisis. Looking at how far both adopted and emerging policy in London goes in supporting...
View ArticleThe Rent Trap – How a Lack of New Housing and Inaction from the Planning...
Concerns with the state of both housebuilding and the private rented sector are becoming increasingly a mainstream issue within the UK and Scotland and one that I can relate to both as a private renter...
View ArticleGreen Belt Scaremongering should be backed with 21st century truths
Recently the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) conducted a poll in recognition of the Green Belt policy being formed 60 years ago. With headlines from the group estimating that 226,000 homes...
View ArticlePoached 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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