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[V8Druid]

Marshalls sees profits slump in first half of 2024

Bricks-to-tiles manufacturer Marshalls saw pre-tax profits fall by 20% year-on-year on reduced turnover in the first half of 2024.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

" Pre-tax profits fall by 20% year-on-year on reduced turnover in the first half of 2024. "​

 

[V8Druid]

The ins and outs of Labour’s new National Planning Policy Framework

Keir Starmer's government has put planning reform at the heart of its ambition to get Britain building, to the delight of many developers. Daniel Gayne looks at the proposals announced last month and assesses their chances of success

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more gov 'help' - NOT

Developer cuts affordable housing on 19-tower Lewisham scheme after being hit by £25m railway station bill

Renewal Group's 3,500-home Surrey Canal Triangle masterplan includes station originally set to be funded by the government

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[V8Druid]

for this sort of money you could rebuild the whole place

Bouygues starts £25m Carmarthen Debenhams transformation

Bouygues UK has begun works to turn an old department store in Carmarthen into a mixed-use health and leisure centre.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

 

[V8Druid]

interesting read

What does the collapse in section 106 demand mean for housing delivery?

Housing associations have stopped bidding to buy section 106 homes in many parts of the country, resulting in a drop-off in affordable homes and major delays on for-sale schemes. Joey Gardiner asks what the implications are and how the problem can be resolved

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" Housing associations have stopped bidding to buy section 106 homes in many parts of the country ........ For 100-homes a-year Kent housebuilder Fernham Homes, the permission secured at Love Lane in Faversham last summer to build 154 houses should have been a significant boost. One year on, however, and managing director Sean Ellis says the firm has not had one viable bid for the 54 affordable homes on the site. "

bloke locally trying to wriggle out of his 106 commitments to build two affordables - says it's not commercially viable - have to take a hit then - won't he ... would never have gotten the planning without committing to build them

 

[Lancs Lad]

interesting read

What does the collapse in section 106 demand mean for housing delivery?

Housing associations have stopped bidding to buy section 106 homes in many parts of the country, resulting in a drop-off in affordable homes and major delays on for-sale schemes. Joey Gardiner asks what the implications are and how the problem can be resolved

www.building.co.uk

" Housing associations have stopped bidding to buy section 106 homes in many parts of the country ........ For 100-homes a-year Kent housebuilder Fernham Homes, the permission secured at Love Lane in Faversham last summer to build 154 houses should have been a significant boost. One year on, however, and managing director Sean Ellis says the firm has not had one viable bid for the 54 affordable homes on the site. "

bloke locally trying to wriggle out of his 106 commitments to build two affordables - says it's not commercially viable - have to take a hit then - won't he ... would never have gotten the planning without committing to build them

Trick is....get permission promising locals wonderfully cheap affordable crap...then once granted pop retrospective app to remove affordable clause in during summer when no ones about and it's flies through

 

[6feetdown]

Trick is....get permission promising locals wonderfully cheap affordable crap...then once granted pop retrospective app to remove affordable clause in during summer when no ones about and it's flies through

Oo watch Sta m a get his claws in and nationalise a bankrupt firm

 

[V8Druid]

the problem here is the fact that a lot of these permissions were only granted on the 106 agreements, being agreed to, when the cost of building them was viable (often some time ago) ....
now everything's gone up so much, the 'affordables' are costing more to build than the ceiling prices for the social landlord owners to stomach and they just aren't prepared to buy, even at cost .....
developers're gonna have to take a hit - end of - and take a smaller slice of the profit on those that aren't 'so called' affordable which they couldn't have built, without agreeing to the 106 agreements in the first place

 

[V8Druid]

Barratt pulls four planning applications over 50% affordable housing viability concerns​

Barratt pulls four planning applications over 50% affordable housing viability concerns

Group land director calls for tweaks to National Planning Policy Framework proposals

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add this to the mix and there'll be a lot more grinding to a halt

interesting read

What does the collapse in section 106 demand mean for housing delivery?

Housing associations have stopped bidding to buy section 106 homes in many parts of the country, resulting in a drop-off in affordable homes and major delays on for-sale schemes. Joey Gardiner asks what the implications are and how the problem can be resolved

www.building.co.uk

" Housing associations have stopped bidding to buy section 106 homes in many parts of the country ........ For 100-homes a-year Kent housebuilder Fernham Homes, the permission secured at Love Lane in Faversham last summer to build 154 houses should have been a significant boost. One year on, however, and managing director Sean Ellis says the firm has not had one viable bid for the 54 affordable homes on the site. "

bloke locally trying to wriggle out of his 106 commitments to build two affordables - says it's not commercially viable - have to take a hit then - won't he ... would never have gotten the planning without committing to build them

The ins and outs of Labour’s new National Planning Policy Framework

Keir Starmer's government has put planning reform at the heart of its ambition to get Britain building, to the delight of many developers. Daniel Gayne looks at the proposals announced last month and assesses their chances of success

www.building.co.uk

 

[V8Druid]

hardly think 15 ppl are gonna be able to spread themselves around a hell of a lot more planning authorities than that

Rayner sets up ‘accelerator’ team of officials to boost development on 200 stalled sites

MHLCG believes 300,000 homes can be built across large sites

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[V8Druid]

and this is a very interesting read .....

How can we realistically build the new homes we need?

How can the new government address the UK's growing housing crisis as the sector faces an uphill battle?

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" “Every political party is pretty much saying we need to build 300,000 homes,” said Jones.
“If we’re in the Paris Agreement […] we do not have the carbon budget to do that. We have a carbon budget to deliver 14,000 homes, she added. ........ The carbon budget is a legally binding restriction on the overall amount of greenhouse gases the UK can emit over a five-year period. If emissions rise in one sector, the country will have to reach corresponding falls in another. ..... following the carbon budget set out by the UN Paris Agreement. ”

what a crock of crap

and I'll bet this'll use up the carbon budget on its own
https://www.building.co.uk/news/rem...ng on 2300 residential buildings yet to start

then add this to the consumption

Aberdeen City Council decides demolition is the safest option for 500 RAAC homes

Homes containing the lightweight concrete will be demolished and rebuilt at a cost of £130m

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and this

McDonald’s to build over 200 new UK restaurants

The chain pledges a £1bn expansion project after five decades in the UK

www.building.co.uk

don't know what they're all going to eat at them though, when Smarma dictates we all go vegan

 

[6feetdown]

and this is a very interesting read .....

How can we realistically build the new homes we need?

How can the new government address the UK's growing housing crisis as the sector faces an uphill battle?

www.building.co.uk

" “Every political party is pretty much saying we need to build 300,000 homes,” said Jones.
“If we’re in the Paris Agreement […] we do not have the carbon budget to do that. We have a carbon budget to deliver 14,000 homes, she added. ........ The carbon budget is a legally binding restriction on the overall amount of greenhouse gases the UK can emit over a five-year period. If emissions rise in one sector, the country will have to reach corresponding falls in another. ..... following the carbon budget set out by the UN Paris Agreement. ”

what a crock of crap

and I'll bet this'll use up the carbon budget on its own
https://www.building.co.uk/news/rem...ng on 2300 residential buildings yet to start

then add this to the consumption

Aberdeen City Council decides demolition is the safest option for 500 RAAC homes

Homes containing the lightweight concrete will be demolished and rebuilt at a cost of £130m

www.building.co.uk

and this

McDonald’s to build over 200 new UK restaurants

The chain pledges a £1bn expansion project after five decades in the UK

www.building.co.uk

don't know what they're all going to eat at them though, when Smarma dictates we all go vegan

So full of bs it's unbelievable

 

[V8Druid]

it's going well then ........
" UK house-building starts fall 34% "

UK house-building starts fall 34%

House-building figures published by the Office for National Statistics this morning show a significant fall in new housing completions and an even bigger fall in new starts.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

 

[TiltyShaun]

Just started on a new build site which has 6 detached and 4 social houses. Developer is struggling to get any social housing provider interested in taking “just 4” so is looking at setting up his own social housing provider.
He can’t sell any of the others until he has a taker for the social housing. Going to be interesting to see how it plays out. I have no problem renting out at 80% of market rent if I have got the house at a 20% discount and cheap government funding as a social housing provider.

 

[V8Druid]

Just started on a new build site which has 6 detached and 4 social houses. Developer is struggling to get any social housing provider interested in taking “just 4” so is looking at setting up his own social housing provider.
He can’t sell any of the others until he has a taker for the social housing. Going to be interesting to see how it plays out. I have no problem renting out at 80% of market rent if I have got the house at a 20% discount and cheap government funding as a social housing provider.

40% affordable ... 's a joke ... no one is going to build anything the way it's going, especially when the so called 'social landlords' are not taking up purpose built housing for their 'market'

 

[6feetdown]

40% affordable ... 's a joke ... no one is going to build anything the way it's going, especially when the so called 'social landlords' are not taking up purpose built housing for their 'market'

I said the statsi will form their 'own' building company if private sector can't or won't build

 

[Smiffy]

40% affordable ... 's a joke ... no one is going to build anything the way it's going, especially when the so called 'social landlords' are not taking up purpose built housing for their 'market'

Is this on all developments no matter the size. Or above so many houses ?

 

[V8Druid]

Is this on all developments no matter the size. Or above so many houses ?

here it's five or more but was 20% ... been trying to up it for ages - don't know whether they've succeeded yet though

 

[6feetdown]

here it's five or more but was 20% ... been trying to up it for ages - don't know whether they've succeeded yet though

I think it's still the same

 

[Smiffy]

here it's five or more but was 20% ... been trying to up it for ages - don't know whether they've succeeded yet though

Tbf It would be nice if it meant lots of small developments and allow smaller quality companies to do it rather than the likes of persimons creaming profit off of 1000 house sites.

 

[V8Druid]

Tbf It would be nice if it meant lots of small developments and allow smaller quality companies to do it rather than the likes of persimons creaming profit off of 1000 house sites.

local tow rag built 6 half mil+ houses in the village and had to do 2 'affordables' to get the six .... now pleading theyr'e unviable, 'cos costs have risen so much - even though he sold the six half mil+,s for a lot more than anticipated originally - he'll have to dig into his extra profits to build the 'affordables' - couldn't have built six without agreeing to provide the two rabbit hutches and is now also playing the 'social landlords' won't pay the cost prices anymore card - again he'll have to swallow the difference -- bloke is a universally detested twat anyway - couldn't happen to a more deserving individual