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Shropshire Council has announced plans to to build 1,000 new houses, including 400 council homes, over the next five years. Following decisions made at a full council meeting in February, the authority’s housing company, Cornovii Developments Limited, will have access to a rolling loan facility of £35 million, on top of a £14m loan previously […]

NEARLY 250 new homes could be built to the south of the East Coast Mainline in Dunbar. A section of land at Hallhill North, to the west of the town’s Lochend campus of Dunbar Primary School, has been earmarked for development by Taylor Wimpey East Scotland and Hallhill Developments Ltd. The scheme, if approved, would […]

Building the homes and infrastructure this country needs has to be a key priority for the new government to help drive the economy forward. This is the view of Brian Berry, chief executive of the Federation of Master Builders, but is a sentiment echoed by many. Berry commented: “The government needs to back the nation’s […]

A decision on whether 400 homes could be built on land near to Nuneaton’s largest tip will be made in the New Year. New plans have been submitted to Nuneaton and Bedworth Council to build a mini housing estate on land off Tuttle Hill. A target decision date of February 14, 2020 has been set […]

Tunbridge Wells town would be better protected from large scale new house building if the council proposal goes ahead to put 6,800 homes at Tudeley and Paddock Wood. The controversial proposal for the tiny village in the heart of the countryside and the small town were officially unveiled this week to parish councils. Residents were […]

A social housing provider has unveiled plans for new developments in Wrexham County Borough. Clwyd Alyn says it is set to create 380 affordable, sustainable homes for local people across the region costing around £63 million. The developments have been financed with £37 million of Welsh Government funding secured in partnership with local authorities, together […]

Modular has long been hailed as a solution to a housing crisis that has left workers in England and Wales needing to fork out eight times their annual income to buy a house, according to ONS data published in 2018. The homes are quick to assemble and are cost-efficient, they are built to last and they […]

Growing concerns about the number of homeless people in Coventry are being tackled in a new five-year plan developed by the city council. From 2013/14 to 2017/18 just over 5,000 approached the council because they were homeless or threatened with homelessness. The main reasons for homelessness included a family relationship breakdown (29 per cent), end of […]

The column inches written about the dysfunctional British housing market are legion. Too few homes, at too high a price, built for too few people. Two years ago, the Farmer Report commissioned by the Government concluded that the British construction industry, using a medical analogy, was a dying patient. Fast forward to today, it still lies on its […]

Funding for a multi-million pound bridge that will support the development of hundreds of new homes has been approved. The new pedestrian and cycle access overpass will be installed over the A46, connecting the former RAF Newton site – where 550 new homes are proposed – with a plot of land also proposed for new […]

Ambitious new plans could see 1,700 new homes brought to Birmingham’s Southside district. Manchester property group MCR has submitted a £275 million urban village scheme to council planners that would see more than 1,000 new homes on the vacant Monaco House site on Bristol Street. Meanwhile housebuilder Barratt Homes is proposing 778 new apartments and […]

Shropshire Council is reviewing its local plan, moving it forward by ten years. The plan is now set to be presented to cabinet on October 18. Although almost 19,000 homes are already set to be built in the county, the plan says a further 10,000 will be needed by 2036. Adrian Cooper, planning policy manager […]