The year ahead: What does 2026 hold for housebuilding? After a turbulent 2025, our industry enters 2026 with a renewed sense of purpose. Last year pushed every part of the market, from developers and local authorities to planning teams and registered providers, to rethink the way we work. While many of the challenges were unexpected,…
Places for People, the UK’s leading social enterprise, and Yoo Capital have submitted a planning application to Camden Council to deliver hundreds of affordable homes as part of the Camden Film Quarter development in Kentish Town. The plans will see PfP lead the delivery of 485 new homes, with 50% designated as affordable, and, after…
The government has set out changes that will remove the requirement for a number of environmental permits before construction projects can begin in a bid to boost housebuilding. The changes will see “low-risk” activities such as site investigation works, the storage of waste materials and drainage operations, no longer requiring an environmental permit, which environment…
Planning Portal, the digital platform through which more than 95% of planning applications in England are submitted, has recorded a surge in the number of new homes applied for in the third quarter of 2025. The number of new homes for which planning permission was sought from 1 July to 30 September 2025 was 68%…
The latest data from the ONS show a 1.2% growth in the construction sector for the last quarter, which helped UK GDP surpass forecasts. The 1.2% increase comes after a smaller growth of 0.3% in the first quarter and was driven by improvements in both new work and repair and maintenance. From April to June,…
The Building Safety Regulator may take a “firmer approach” with gateway 2 applications and reject more outright to decrease delays, according to the BSR chief. The BSR has faced criticism from developers since taking over the building control for higher-risk buildings, which has resulted in delays of up to 11 months for approval at the…
Octopus Capital has announced it has raised a further £118million into its Affordable Housing Fund. The new investment will help to fund the team’s active pipeline and scale its impact-driven strategy. £50million of the investment has come from Strathclyde Pension Fund, a Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), £58million is a re-up from London CIV, the…
Sarah Edwards, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for SME Housebuilders, warmly welcomes the government’s newly published proposed amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, describing them as a “clear signal that ministers are listening to the needs of SME developers and their trade bodies.” The APPG says that the changes, which reflect key…
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