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What is the Planning and Infrastructure Bill?

|Date: 07 Apr 2025

What is the Planning and Infrastructure Bill?

At the time of writing, the Planning and Infrastructure Bill is the latest big announcement that affects ...

At the time of writing, the Planning and Infrastructure Bill is the latest big announcement that affects the housebuilding industry, although that’s doubtless set to change with the Spring budget, whi ...

07 Apr 2025
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Get Britain Building Again

|Date: 10 Feb 2025

Get Britain Building Again

The pledge to “Get Britain Building Again” seems to have dominated all discourse in the construction indu ...

The pledge to “Get Britain Building Again” seems to have dominated all discourse in the construction industry since July of last year. In truth, the general housing “supply vs demand” race has probabl ...

10 Feb 2025
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The future of housebuilding

|Date: 02 Dec 2024

The future of housebuilding

Being the last issue of the year, this “First Word” is also a “Last Word” of sorts and marks the end of 2 ...

Being the last issue of the year, this “First Word” is also a “Last Word” of sorts and marks the end of 2024. As this time of year is best suited to reflecting, there seems no better occasion to look ...

02 Dec 2024
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Housebuilding Statement

|Date: 14 Oct 2024

Housebuilding Statement

Grand Ambitions Well, rather a lot has happened in the housebuilding industry since writing the July issu ...

Grand Ambitions Well, rather a lot has happened in the housebuilding industry since writing the July issue. At that time, it was around a week before we elected a new Government, who have since come o ...

14 Oct 2024
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Labour has revealed five ‘golden rules’

|Date: 23 May 2024

Labour has revealed five ‘golden rules’

The red, green and grey Labour has revealed five ‘golden rules’ on the green belt with which it will camp ...

The red, green and grey Labour has revealed five ‘golden rules’ on the green belt with which it will campaign in the approach to the General Election (GE) in June, November or January 2025 (your guess ...

23 May 2024
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Going down slow

|Date: 04 Apr 2024

Going down slow

The phrase ‘silly season’ is usually used to describe the dog days of August when not much is happening t ...

The phrase ‘silly season’ is usually used to describe the dog days of August when not much is happening to keep the nation’s news rooms busy, and so they fill up print and airtime with lightweight sto ...

04 Apr 2024
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Campaign time

|Date: 14 Feb 2024

Campaign time

Theoretically, the next General Election (GE) need not take place until January 2025. In reality, a raft ...

Theoretically, the next General Election (GE) need not take place until January 2025. In reality, a raft of political pundits are saying that it increasingly looks like this May, following a budget in ...

14 Feb 2024
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Dutton Gregory Solicitors on what they’d like to see from the 2023 Spring Budget

|Date: 14 Mar 2023

Dutton Gregory Solicitors on what they’d like to see from the 2023 Spring Budget

Speaking ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget announcement, Paul Sams, Partner and Head of Property for D ...

Speaking ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget announcement, Paul Sams, Partner and Head of Property for Dutton Gregory Solicitors, said: “We very much doubt this will be a Spring Budget to remember, b ...

14 Mar 2023
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Opinion | Why Jeremy Hunt Needs to Stimulate Growth – by Wavensmere Homes

|Date: 10 Mar 2023

Opinion | Why Jeremy Hunt Needs to Stimulate Growth – by Wavensmere Homes

Speaking ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget announcement, James Dickens, Managing Director of Birmingha ...

Speaking ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget announcement, James Dickens, Managing Director of Birmingham-based housebuilder Wavensmere Homes, said: “We are bracing ourselves for a lacklustre Budget, ...

10 Mar 2023
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Special Report | Dearth in the countryside

|Date: 24 Feb 2023

Special Report | Dearth in the countryside

With a record 1.2million households currently on waiting lists for social housing, David Cracklen (left), ...

With a record 1.2million households currently on waiting lists for social housing, David Cracklen (left), director of Dorset-based AJC Group fears Michael Gove’s planning changes will starve rural com ...

24 Feb 2023
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