housebuilding
Time and its use in housing development
Thursday 18 December 2025
Dominant rhetoric surrounding housing development has featured recurrent reference to delay and to a need to deliver housing more speedily, writes Professor Gavin Parker. This has been linked to the housing affordability crisis, and attention to hastening build-out rates and speeding up planning permissioning have been important concerns for government in recent years. In that […] Read more >
Planning changes lined up as new government looks to boost housebuilding
Wednesday 10 July 2024
In her first speech as Chancellor, Rachel Reeves has introduced a swathe of proposed changes to the planning system to deliver Labour’s housebuilding target of 1.5 million homes over the next five years. The proposed changes include: A revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), prioritising growth and energy infrastructure Mandatory housebuilding targets including a national […] Read more >
Big builders exploiting loophole to push greenfield developments through on appeal, CPRE research shows
Tuesday 13 June 2023
Deep-pocketed developers are winning on appeal against cash-strapped councils by exploiting a planning loophole Individuals and firms proposing small-scale projects have far less chance of successfully challenging planning decisions – the system appears weighted in favour of big builders Major developments on greenfield land use the ‘five-year housing land supply’ rule to override Local Plans […] Read more >