How housebuilders unlock value through early drainage design

Shahir Mahmood at Polypipe Building Products explores how early focus on drainage design is helping SME housebuilders improve planning outcomes, maximise land value and future-proof developments. For SME housebuilders, delivering viable developments increasingly means balancing planning requirements, land optimisation and... View Article

The home improvements that actually make a difference

Architect and retrofit specialist Paul Testa Paul is founding director of HEM Architects and has spent more than a decade specialising in low-energy architecture, Passivhaus design and deep retrofit. He has also put his advice into practice by carrying out an EnerPHit... View Article

Bridging construction and efficiency with smart buildings

Paul Beech from Armatherm discusses the role thermal bridging plays in limiting building performance, and why ‘smart’ building design is the means to address it and achieve genuine energy efficiency in residential buildings. Smart buildings will play a vital role... View Article

A Memorial Forest

Studio Wignall & Moore create ‘A Memorial Forest’ at Brookwood Military Cemetery to honour those whose graves have never been formally identified Studio Wignall & Moore were commissioned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) to design a new 1914-1918... View Article

Consumer upgrades for two housing associations

Two housing associations received C1 consumer upgrades in regulatory judgements published by the Regulator of Social Housing today. Livin Housing Limited and Community Gateway Association Limited were both upgraded from C2 to C1. RSH found that Livin, which is based... View Article

Social and Affordable Homes Programme Funding Award

Vistry Group PLC (“Vistry” or the “Group”) is pleased to announce that it has been reconfirmed as a Strategic Partner and secured a significant direct grant award under the first allocation of funding made available as part of the government’s £39bn... View Article

Orbit response to SAHP announcement

Phil Andrew, Group Chief Executive for Orbit commented: “We’re absolutely delighted to have been awarded £350m as part of the Social and Affordable Homes Programme, and to be able to continue to work with Homes England in helping to tackle... View Article

Avant Homes starts work on £23m, 84-home Sutton-in-Ashfield development

Housebuilder Avant Homes East Midlands has started construction on its £22.8m, 84 new-home development in Sutton-in-Ashfield. Called Silverhill Edge and located off Fisher Close, the development will comprise a mix of three-, four- and five-bedroom homes. The development will feature 12 of Avant Homes’... View Article