Shelter fears Starter Homes will only help high earners
The Government’s Starter Homes initiative will narrow housing options for the lowest paid while helping mainly higher earners, according to homelessness charity Shelter
View ArticleLammy wants to cap price of first-time buyer homes
London mayoral hopeful David Lammy has pledged to build 30,000 new homes for sale to first time buyers which would be allowed to be resold to others starting on the housing ladder
View ArticleCan Jeremy Corbyn solve the housing crisis?
With his pledge to build 100,000 council houses a year, Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn is enthusing architects. Laura Mark reports
View ArticleHouse Plan: Carl Turner on MVRDV's Double House
In the latest of the AJ’s ongoing series looking at influential housing plans, Carl Turner chooses MVRDV’s Double House in Utrecht
View ArticleY:Cube by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) may have had its fingers burnt with its previous foray into preassembled housing, but it is again championing such techniques at its new scheme in south London,...
View ArticleRogers: ‘We need to challenge the housebuilders' monopoly’
Richard Rogers has said the major housebuilders need to be challenged if the UK is to solve the housing crisis
View ArticleUrban Salon wins go-ahead for Peabody scheme
Urban Salon has won planning for this 12 home development in Hackney’s Morpeth Road - the first scheme designed by one of Peabody’s Small Project Panel to be approved
View ArticleDarling: 'Housing wasn’t a priority in the 1990s'
Former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling has claimed his party did not focus on housing during its last spell in power
View ArticlePiercy & Company submits Drury Lane homes proposal
Piercy & Company has submitted plans to replace an entire 0.19ha block within the Covent Garden Conservation Area in London
View ArticleRevealed: 100 ideas to solve the housing crisis
New London Architecture (NLA) has revealed the results of its international competition to find solutions to the capital’s housing crisis
View ArticleHal Currey leaves Arup to start new practice
Former FLACQ director Hal Currey has left Arup Associates to set up a new housing-focused practice
View ArticleEmpty Homes Agency: '£450m could revive 22,000 homes'
The government should reinstate dedicated funding to support councils in bringing empty homes back into use, according to a campaigning charity
View ArticleNeave Brown: 'You cannot build homes properly without a programme'
Neave Brown, the only living architect to have all of his UK housing schemes listed, talks to the AJ about the housing crisis and what lessons can be learnt from architects of his generation
View ArticleCorbyn opens with housing at debut PM Questions
Jeremy Corbyn, the newly-installed leader of the opposition, today opened his first Prime Minister’s Questions on the topic of housing
View ArticleBoys Smith: 'Like it or not, the direct planning revolution is coming'
When it comes to planning, the tectonic plates will have to shift to better reflect what people want and like, says Nicholas Boys Smith of Create Streets
View ArticleLloyds: 'Planning and skills shortages holding back housebuilding'
Skills shortages – including among architects – and planning delays are among the biggest challenges facing the housebuilding sector, according to a survey by Lloyds Bank
View ArticleHousing minister targets 1 million new homes by 2020
Planning and housing minister Brandon Lewis has said the government aims to build 1 million new homes over the next five years
View ArticleFirst look at record-breaking cross-laminated timber building
Hawkins\Brown has released these shots of what its claims is ‘Europe’s tallest cross-laminated timber building’
View ArticleMount Pleasant objectors unveil 'viable' alternative
The Mount Pleasant Association (MPA) has won £150,000 from the mayor’s Community Right to Build fund to lodge its own planning application for the Royal Mail site
View ArticleFarron: 'We will build 300,000 new homes a year'
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has reiterated his party’s commitment to building 300,000 homes a year during his speech to the Liberal Democrat annual conference
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