All Housing Today articles in April 2022
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NewsDocklands modular tower wins planning
Tide Construction’s 48-storey scheme to be among world’s tallest modular buildings
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NewsCollapsed Caledonian Modular snapped up by concrete frame specialist
Jobs saved as Caledonian Modular bought by JRL
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NewsNew Homes Quality Board should include architects, says former RIBA president
Ben Derbyshire slams ‘inexplicable’ lack of architectural expertise on new board to police house building industry
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NewsHomes England and HSBC backs SME housebuilder to build 1,000 homes
Wyatt Homes set to expand across southern England with £45m backing
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CommentGove’s cladding deal - what does it mean for the sector?
With negotiations on a housebuilder pledge to pay for fire safety repairs close to finalising, Joey Gardiner looks at what the likely shape of the deal says about how far the housing secretary has been able to get his way on cladding
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NewsPlanning inspector green-lights 495-home scheme in Basildon
Basildon Estates schem approved despite council leader’s objections
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NewsCrest Nicholson signs Gove’s ‘building safety pledge’ to fix tower blocks
Housebuilder first to confirm it will sign agreement and estimates cost will be £80m to £120m
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NewsUK’s poor quality housing causes ‘excess winter deaths’, report finds
Legal & General and the UCL Institute of Health Equity said in their review housing providers needed to think of the neighbourhoods they were creating as well as the homes when building
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NewsFormer minister in charge of building regulations had never heard of flawed fire rating
Stephen Williams says he only learned of banned Class 0 rating at yesterday’s hearing of Grenfell Inquiry
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NewsCouncil-owned company submits rejigged plans for 8,500-home garden village
Folkestone & Hythe District Council pushes ahead with plans for 800-hectare Otterpool Park scheme
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NewsPersimmon signs up to Gove cladding deal
Firm confirms ’developer pledge’ will see housebuilders repair blocks going back 30 years, as revealed by Housing Today
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NewsInland Homes MD steps down with ‘immediate effect’
Firm gives no reason for ’terminating’ employment of long-time MD Gary Skinner
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NewsForward funding deal for Watkin Jones’ 551-home Brum build to rent scheme
The £136m deal between Watkin Jones and Get Living will deliver 47 affordable homes for the centre of Birmingham.
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NewsGrowth in housebuilding activity slowed in March
Construction sector confidence slumps to 17 month low accoridng to latest data from purchasing managers
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NewsThree HAs in merger talks to create £370m-turnover organisation
Flagship, Futures and BPHA enter three-way merger discussions
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NewsFormer minister says government had ‘completely false’ idea of fire safety before Grenfell
Gavin Barwell says there was a “clear presumption” that review of building regulations was not life critical
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NewsInvestment in UK build-to-rent leaps 50%, says research
Consultancy firm JLL said £1.7b built-to-rent investment deals were made in the UK in the first quarter of 2022
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NewsUPDATED: Bellway, Vistry and Countryside latest to sign cladding costs pledge
10 housebuilders have now publicly confirmed they are signing up to Michael Gove’s deal as 53 firms ‘asked to pay up’
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In FocusGove cladding deal tracker: how much extra will each housebuilder pay?
Major housebuilders have been announcing they have signed up to Michael Gove’s cladding deal, with some providing estimates of the likely hit to their finances. Here are the key cost details from the statements so far in one place.