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Government to axe 'Section 106' in favour of new infrastructure levy in planning shake up. The law - which councils use to impose affordable housing requirements on developers - is
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Automatic permission for new homes will only make housing affordable if you believe that housebuilders are willing to flood the market with enough supply to bring prices radically down, instead
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Ok, so here's the story of how this happened. In March 2014, Rydon was close to being appointed as the lead contractor for Grenfell Tower, following a procurement processhttps://twitter.com/PeteApps/status/1285222582518796288 In
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This morning's #Grenfelll inquiry evidence mostly surrounds emails Ashton replied to in 2014 regarding cavity barriers + insulation. Critically, it's about his failure to make clear combustible insulation wasn't acceptable
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Ok, so here is what we appear to actually be talking about. It's an expansion of the office-to-resi, planning free housing conversions to more commercial buildings, especially empty shops. Permitted
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Boris Johnson says "newt counting" is the cause of slow building in the UK. According to the Conservative Party's own detailed analysis, that is, I'm afraid, bollocks The analysis which
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Leaseholders at @SkylineCentral1 have had a very rough deal from govt. Back in July 2019, they contacted @RobertJenrick asking for help with costs to remove dangerous cladding. But they were
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Another near miss. All too frequent a sight in recent weeks. The questions for me would be: what materials (insulation?) were present in the roof? And what went wrong with
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This week Inside Housing is running a special edition looking at the links between the housing crisis and coronavirus. First up from me: why do so many of us live
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Worth breaking down this figure about 90% of private landlords supporting tenants during the pandemic a little.It's important because the post-evictions ban phase of the government's plan essentially relies on
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A reminder that last year the government committed to ensure that the remediation of buildings with Grenfell-style cladding would be complete by June 2020. When they made that pledge 327
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Think something missing from the COVID-19 debate is the extent to which the housing market has forced people to live in shared rented housing. Consider this data from Camden: The
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