The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has launched a major housing policy in his new draft London plan. In his speech today at Barking Riverside he demonstrated his determination to get London building the affordable homes it needs by radically changing existing planning rules and...
A group of cross-party London Politicians have written to the Chancellor Phillip Hammond to commit to significant investment in this week’s Budget to help develop Off-site manufacturing. In the letter from the collaborative London Assembly group including representatives from the Conservatives, Labour, the Green Party and...
The Education and Skills Funding Agency’s revamped £8bn school building framework, compulsory waiting period concluded today with the contracts set to run for up to four years starting 27 November. The school building framework provides the ESFA with a procurement route to access pre-selected contractors. The framework...
Phillip Hammond appeared on the Andrew Marr show this morning prior to this weeks budget. He said there will be measures in place to be announced in Wednesday's budget speech to show how the government intend to meet a target of 300,000 new homes a...
The Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has given a speech praising the decision of the Office for National Statistics to remove housing association debt from the UK balance sheet, suggesting a much more "stable investment environment" for the providers of affordable homes. New powers to fund house-building...
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called on chancellor Philip Hammond to take ‘emergency action’ to support homebuilding in the forthcoming Budget as concerns in the housing industry mount over the impact of Brexit. Laura Edgar of The Planner reports Khan wants additional funding for affordable...
"Artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing and nano technology are set to transform the business and consumer landscape" according to an article in Construction Manager. It refers to a report released last week by contractor and construction manager Mace which estimates that...
More and more people, companies and institutions are asking the question can we speed up the time and hassle of building new properties. Modern methods of construction are all about taking as much of the hard work away from cold, wet building sites as possible. Instead...
The Education and Skills Funding Agency will start the bid race this month for its largest modular school construction framework. It is the third framework agreement for offsite construction from the ESFA in a plan to revolutionise the way education buildings are specified, procured and delivered. The agency...