Getting up the numbers
Stephen Byfield, partner at Newgate Communications, bemoans the fact that green belt policy, a 70 year old system of land management, is still dictating what i…
Mind the quality gap
As pressure to speed up construction raises quality concerns, Gavin White, technical product manager at Marley Eternit, discusses how taking greater control ov…
Image matters
HBF executive chairman Stewart Baseley says that the industry is under the microscope and maintaining a good image is essential to retain government support
The HA multi-tenure model
Richard Jones, partner at Arcadis, argues that the joint venture model is enabling housing associations to successfully tap into housebuilders' skill sets and …
On the expansion trail
Steve Menary looks at the latest financial figures of the quoted housebuilders and argues that although there are a few red marks, at a broader level the indus…
The challenge of satisfying a new generation of customers
In the light of the latest results of the industry's Customer Satisfaction Survey, HBF policy director David O'Leary looks at the changing face of customer ser…
Quality v quantity - a balance to be struck
There are in the region of 30,000 words of editorial in this edition of Housebuilder.
Targeting a solution for our "broken housing market"
In advance of its launch of an offsite house, the Keystone Group commercial director Sean Og Coyle explains what actions the firm is taking to meet the challen…
A targeted immigration approach
The native UK construction workforce is ageing and hundreds of thousands will retire in the next few years. So, as Arcadis partner Richard Jones argues, we wil…
White Paper signals change in starter homes policy
HBF policy director David O'Leary delves deeper into the Housing White Paper and unearths some important, and possibly overlooked, changes in emphasis on Affor…
