George Osborne - the planning reformer
The chancellor George Osborne may be personally delivering planning reform but his well-meaning solutions will not deliver the goods, according to Stephen Byfield, managing director of communications consultancy PPS
The new potential of MMC
MMC has become an attractive prospect for the sector, says Richard Jones, head of residential at EC Harris. So why has it not made an impact yet?
Full steam ahead
HBF executive chairman Stewart Baseley welcomes the various housing and planning measures announced over the summer and looks forward to "great leaps" to achieve the step-change that is needed
New trends in land holdings
Steve Menary compares the landbanks of the biggest housebuilders against last year and notes some interesting trends
An impatient, radical government
Ministers have lost patience with local authorities and housing associations, but this intensifies the focus on private housebuilders to deliver the government’s radical housing policies, says John Stewart
The right move
The whole notion of low carbon housing is not going to spectacularly collapse. Innovation will still prevail but is now - at least for the moment - removed from the strangling effect of heftier standards
Tackling the talent gap
A new style of leadership is needed, a move from command and control to a coaching style, if the construction and housebuilding industry is to attract and retain the best staff, says Norman Greenwald, head of learning and development at Tamdown
People and money
A new report from EC Harris suggests that the keys to solving the housing crisis are people and money rather than land and planning. The firm's head of residential Richard Jones takes a look
Devolution revolution
HBF executive chairman Stewart Baseley says that the drive towards devolving powers to our major cities could have a fundamental, and important, effect on housebuilding
Private viewing
Steve Menary looks at the results of the private sector housebuilders, and sees more sales and consolidation ahead
