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Following the launch by Government of its new Green Deal Home Improvement Fund (GDHIF) in England and Wales on 9th June, the National Insulation Association (NIA) is heavily promoting the scheme to consumers and encouraging them to contact its members... View Article

The British Property Federation (BPF) has praised the pro-growth principles of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and its progress thus far, but cautioned that regular assessment of its operation is necessary, and warned that further changes made to the... View Article

Shortages of skilled staff and materials are likely to have contributed to an unexpected drop in construction activity in May, according to construction and property consultancy, Tuffin Ferraby Taylor (TFT). The UK’s commercial construction activity growth unexpectedly slowed to a... View Article

Brian Murphy, Head of Lending at Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), comments: “Strong house price growth is no longer a trend restricted to the South, with average prices across the country up by almost 10% since April 2013. In comparison to... View Article

Today’s Rightmove housing survey highlights a “surge of over 20% more sellers rushing to market” in London in the month to mid-June, causing a 0.5% fall in prices. If this trend continues it could, in our view, signal a fundamental... View Article

Boris Johnson and George Osborne today announced that 50,000 new homes, across twenty new housing zones, will be created in London. Having long advocated the regeneration opportunities of housing zones, the British Property Federation (BPF) is delighted to see that... View Article

Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to address house price inflation by making it easier for housebuilders to develop on brownfield sites. With house price inflation estimated at more than 8%, the Treasury is keen to be seen to take... View Article

The British Property Federation (BPF) has welcomed new measures that will unlock development on brownfield land.   The BPF has praised the measures announced in Chancellor George Osborne’s Mansion House speech, but has also drawn attention to the fact that... View Article

The House Builders Association (HBA), a division of the NFB, welcomed the measures announced today by Chancellor George Osborne to boost the use of former industrial brownfield sites across the country for new housing. The promotion of Local Development Orders... View Article

Leading housing and planning charity, the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), has expressed concerns about the implications of the Chancellor’s announcement in last night’s Mansion House speech that the controls on development on brownfield land will be deregulated. Dr... View Article

Responding to the Government announcement of a £30 million fund to help tackle the skills shortage and address the gender gap in UK engineering Mark Naysmith, UK managing director of global consultancy WSP said: “All support to tackle this increasingly... View Article