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Legal Update | Home Building Fund

|Date: 6 September, 2019

Legal Update | Home Building Fund

Winckworth Sherwood’s Patricia Umunna considers the Home Building Fund for new development. In the 2017 b ...

Winckworth Sherwood’s Patricia Umunna considers the Home Building Fund for new development. In the 2017 budget Philip Hammond increased the funding available for the Home Building Fund from £3bn to £4 ...

6 September, 2019
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Industry comment | Will Boris back council housing?

|Date: 4 September, 2019

Industry comment | Will Boris back council housing?

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), considers the im ...

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), considers the impact of the recent ministerial changes and the potential of a no deal Brexit on the affordable ...

4 September, 2019
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Guest Comment | Single source of truth

|Date: 12 August, 2019

Guest Comment | Single source of truth

Project complexity is pushing cost and time uncertainty to the limit, says Bill Zuurbier, Co-Founder and ...

Project complexity is pushing cost and time uncertainty to the limit, says Bill Zuurbier, Co-Founder and Managing Director of risk management consultancy Equib. Many local-authority construction proje ...

12 August, 2019
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View from the Supply Chain | Offsite Solutions

|Date: 19 July, 2019

View from the Supply Chain | Offsite Solutions

Richard Tonkinson, Executive Director of Offsite Solutions, considers the latest innovations in bathroom ...

Richard Tonkinson, Executive Director of Offsite Solutions, considers the latest innovations in bathroom pod technology and the benefits they offer specifiers. The use of bathroom pods has increased h ...

19 July, 2019
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Legal Update | Investing in modular construction

|Date: 15 July, 2019

Legal Update | Investing in modular construction

Ruby Giblin, Partner in the Housing Finance team at law firm Winckworth Sherwood, says it’s time for loca ...

Ruby Giblin, Partner in the Housing Finance team at law firm Winckworth Sherwood, says it’s time for local authorities to reap modular construction benefits. Local government finally freed from caps o ...

15 July, 2019
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Industry Comment | Grenfell, two years on

|Date: 9 July, 2019

Industry Comment | Grenfell, two years on

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), discusses the pr ...

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), discusses the progress made by government to make buildings safer following the tragic Grenfell disaster and th ...

9 July, 2019
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Guest Comment | Giving tenants a voice

|Date: 28 June, 2019

Guest Comment | Giving tenants a voice

Jackie Perry, Assistant Director of Communities and Customer Service at Muir Group Housing Association, d ...

Jackie Perry, Assistant Director of Communities and Customer Service at Muir Group Housing Association, discusses the NHF’s ‘Together with Tenants’ initiative and how important it is that tenant’s voi ...

28 June, 2019
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Industry Comment | Public spending priorities

|Date: 17 June, 2019

Industry Comment | Public spending priorities

With still no news on the 2019 Spending Review, Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of R ...

With still no news on the 2019 Spending Review, Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), discusses the need for a proper review of public spending prior ...

17 June, 2019
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NFB: Councils plan our communities, not the Government

|Date: 13 June, 2019

NFB: Councils plan our communities, not the Government

Anne Marie Morris MP believes that house building has become “more centralised at national level, taking ...

Anne Marie Morris MP believes that house building has become “more centralised at national level, taking power away from local authorities” and that “a community right to appeal” would be one way to p ...

13 June, 2019
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View From the Supply Chain | Tackling fuel poverty

|Date: 21 May, 2019

View From the Supply Chain | Tackling fuel poverty

Around 2.5 million households in the UK — 10% of our housing stock — meet the criteria for fuel poverty. ...

Around 2.5 million households in the UK — 10% of our housing stock — meet the criteria for fuel poverty. Shaun Hurworth from Glen Dimplex Heating & Ventilation looks at how modern electric heating ...

21 May, 2019
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