Outrage over ‘backroom deal’ on right-to-buy extension
Watered down proposals to extend the right-to-buy to housing association tenants will still ‘fatally undermine’ councils’ abilities to deliver social housing, according to leading local government...
View ArticleMetropolitan Workshop-led team reveals Brixton homes plan
London Borough of Lambeth has submitted plans for a mixed use scheme in Brixton comprising 303 new homes designed by a consortium of architects and ‘shaped’ by local residents
View ArticleLabour launches independent review into housing crisis
An independent review of housing has been launched by shadow housing minister John Healey
View ArticleCorbyn pledges 'a decent home for everybody’
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has vowed that the Labour Party will provide ‘a decent home for everybody’
View ArticleBritish Homes Awards finalists revealed
An eclectic mix of proposals by architects including CF Moller, McInnes Gardner and Emrys Architects, have been shortlisted in a contest to design the next generation of garden city homes
View ArticleMcAslan’s ten point plan to solve the housing crisis
John McAslan has called for homes to be built around transport hubs and urged for more use of alternative models of housing including micro-homes, co-housing, and mid-rise development to solve the...
View ArticleCouncils 'blocking one-in-five office-to-resi requests'
Local authorities are refusing 20 per cent of applications to convert offices into homes under the government’s temporarily ‘relaxed’ planning regime, according to new research
View ArticleMPs launch inquiry into quality of England's new homes
A group of MPs and Lords has launched an inquiry into the quality of new build housing in England
View ArticleExperts concerned over ‘disastrous’ London housing guidance
Leading housing architects have said new proposals to make homes in the capital more accessible could ‘cause chaos’
View ArticleRural Office for Architecture wins £40k self-build competition
Niall Maxwell of Rural Office for Architecture has won the 2015 National Custom and Self Build Association-run (NaCSBA) ‘Self Build on a Shoestring’ competition with designs for a flat-pack home
View ArticleGLA planning chief plays down housing guidance fears
Ed Lister, London deputy mayor for policy and planning, has said that architects are wrong to be concerned about proposals to make homes in the capital more accessible
View ArticleRevealed: 10 winning solutions to London's housing crisis
dRMM, HTA, Baca, and Pitman Tozer are among the winners in New London Architecture’s (NLA) international competition to find solutions to the capital’s housing crisis
View ArticleMore than half architects' wages in London spent on rent
High housing costs in London are costing the economy more than £1 billion a year and stymieing jobs growth, according to new research
View ArticleFears over move to make office-to-resi rights permanent
The government’s decision to make office–to-residential permitted development rights permanent has come under fire from the industry
View ArticleArchitect sought for County Down social housing
Clanmil Housing is on the lookout for an architect to deliver 51 social housing units in Bangor, County Down
View ArticleSurvey highlights ‘timescale crisis’ in London planning departments
Councils in London are taking up to six weeks longer to determine major planning applications than last year - despite a 26 per cent drop in the number of permissions being sought
View ArticleGroves Natcheva wins planning for Forest Hill homes
Groves Natcheva won planning for a development of nine homes in Forest Hill, south east London
View ArticleHousing Bill: what you need to know
The AJ digests the key points from the government’s new Housing and Planning Bill
View ArticleThe Housing Bill represents a fundamental shift in how we think about...
The Housing Bill has promise but with it comes challenges, says Mark Stitch
View ArticleSeth Rutt: 'Discounted homes and office-to-resi won't solve the crisis'
Hawkins/Brown’s Seth Rutt questions whether the Housing and Planning Bill goes far enough to address the real issues at the heart of the housing crisis
View Article