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    Discussing solar PV

    Another magazine issue means a new industry specific regulatory update to unpack. As the above title may ...

    Another magazine issue means a new industry specific regulatory update to unpack. As the above title may suggest, solar PV is the topic of discussion here. At the start of June, everyone's favourite b ...

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    Is the UK on its way to its net zero 2050 ambitions?

    Did you know that 98,345 heat pumps were sold in the UK in 2024? While this figure marks a 52% rise from ...

    Did you know that 98,345 heat pumps were sold in the UK in 2024? While this figure marks a 52% rise from the same statistic in 2023, does it mean that the UK is well on its way to its net zero 2050 am ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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    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 ...

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