Despite still riding a few post-pandemic aftershocks, the UK’s residential construction industry is predicted to see its value increase almost 20% by 2025, according to the...

The total number of Build-to-Rent homes either in planning, under construction, or completed in the UK has risen by 15% between Q3 2021 and Q3 2022 from 209,313 to 240,202, according...

An emerging theme in planning policy is that of ‘beauty’. While ostensibly raising the standards of design, the underlying aim of the beauty agenda is to increase the...

Currently, the number of build-to-rent homes in the UK stands at 78,600, but according to newly released research from the British Property Federation and Savills, this number could...

Government targets for new homes are consistently missed. In fact, at no point since the construction boom of the 1970s have 300,00 homes been built in a single year. Yet despite this,...

The process from a Local Plan allocation to a digger on site typically stretches beyond the length four-year political term, and yet it is all too easily derailed, or substantially...

Recently, there’s been a lot of hype about what exactly the new Building Regulations, which came into effect earlier this year, mean for the glass in our homes; more...

There is a staggering increase in the number of refused planning applications being overturned at appeal: an average of 28%, according to PINS, and approaching 60% for those (typically...

As energy prices and household utility bills continue to rise exponentially, the importance of having an energy-efficient home has never been greater. In England, around 70% of the...

The Green Belt. Widely referenced in the media but little understood by those not in the industry. In terms of the protection of swathes of countryside, the Green Belt has been a...