Features

The latest news, features, comment and analysis of the UK housebuilding market covering policy, regulation, planning, technology, new developments and products

Going to ground

July 1, 2007 Feature

With brownfield land now accounting for the majority of new home sites, housebuilders are facing increasingly complex remediation issues. Ashley Rogers finds t…

Assessing archaeological risk: An integrated approach

July 1, 2007 Feature

Simon McCudden, head of heritage at Scott Wilson, offers some expert advice on handling an on-site archaeological discovery

From the groundup

July 1, 2007 Feature

Housebuilders are looking for clever solutions to increasingly complex groundworks challenges. Andrew Leech investigates the products and services on offer

On air

July 1, 2007 Feature

As the government drives through the code for sustainable homes, airtightness remains a key focus of new homes’ sustainability. NHBC’s Satvinder Sahota takes a…

Development of the month

July 1, 2007 Feature

Attention to detail is fundamental to Carrot’s approach. Steve Menary checks out the niche developer’s L’Ecole scheme in north London, where a Victorian school…

Cross purposes

July 1, 2007 Feature

Cross subsidy deals done to fund on-site affordable housing and estate regeneration are eroding traditional boundaries between housebuilders, housing associati…

Urban renewal focus: salford

July 1, 2007 Feature

In 2011 the BBC will move to Salford. Chris Windle finds out how it is kick-starting regeneration in a city where the housing market had collapsed, in the firs…

High hopes

July 1, 2007 Feature

A daunting task awaits the newly created National Housing and Planning Advice Unit. It must arrest and reverse an apparently inexorable rise in the number of p…

Unlock The Land

July 1, 2007 Feature

There are only two routes to higher housing numbers: higher densities and more land with planning permission. The recovery in housebuilding since it reached a …

HBF mini-manifesto

July 1, 2007 Feature

The HBF has drawn up a “mini-manifesto” for housing, which, if adopted by prime minister Gordon Brown, will help to address the country’s housing shortage, it …