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[V8Druid]

OMG !! they're/he's at it again .....

Ministry sets out compulsory purchase reforms

The government is consulting on plans to give councils new land purchase powers to speed up house-building and infrastructure.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

" Under the proposals, local authorities will be able to take control of vacant and derelict land from landowners paying a ‘fair’ price rather than inflated ‘hope value’ costs that are based on future development potential.
The reforms expand existing legislation allowing 'hope value’ to be removed .........
Housing and planning minister Matthew Pennycook said: “In our manifesto, we committed ourselves to further compulsory purchase reform to deliver more housing, infrastructure, amenity, and transport benefits in the public interest. "

CPO was only ever intended to cover major infrastructure project procurement (roads, M/ways, etc.) - not swiping ppls land to build houses on -- and without the benefit of 'hope value' .. bet they don't touch any developer's land banks

" The Consultation on Compulsory Purchase Process and Compensation Reforms runs until 13th February 2025. It is available here.
The findings will be used to inform the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that the government intends to introduce next year "

 

[6feetdown]

OMG !! they're/he's at it again .....

Ministry sets out compulsory purchase reforms

The government is consulting on plans to give councils new land purchase powers to speed up house-building and infrastructure.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

" Under the proposals, local authorities will be able to take control of vacant and derelict land from landowners paying a ‘fair’ price rather than inflated ‘hope value’ costs that are based on future development potential.
The reforms expand existing legislation allowing 'hope value’ to be removed .........
Housing and planning minister Matthew Pennycook said: “In our manifesto, we committed ourselves to further compulsory purchase reform to deliver more housing, infrastructure, amenity, and transport benefits in the public interest. "

CPO was only ever intended to cover major infrastructure project procurement (roads, M/ways, etc.) - not swiping ppls land to build houses on -- and without the benefit of 'hope value' .. bet they don't touch any developer's land banks

" The Consultation on Compulsory Purchase Process and Compensation Reforms runs until 13th February 2025. It is available here.
The findings will be used to inform the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that the government intends to introduce next year "

f****ng dictatorship

 

[V8Druid]

https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/planning-approvals-continue-to-fall#google_vignette

Smarmer's on track then
" areas in greatest need of new homes facing the most significant barriers to development. .... Planning approvals will need to increase by more than 150% to meet the government’s target of 370,000 homes annually, which is a huge leap from the current figures. .........
The lack of affordable housing is impacting communities across the country, and without a stable demand for new homes, the industry lacks the confidence to invest in building the homes that are desperately needed. ......... (with) a lack of providers in the market to take on the affordable housing developers build. "

 

[DaveDCB]

I’m 2 years in on planning battle for one site for one house..talk of another 6 month delay…. Build build build Lego sat at home!!

 

[bobthebuilder]

I’m 2 years in on planning battle for one site for one house..talk of another 6 month delay…. Build build build Lego sat at home!!

2 years is minimum here for a new build

 

[V8Druid]

2 years is minimum here for a new build

Monmouthshire was officially the worst planning authority in the country ...... and looks like it still is Ws

 

[V8Druid]

New building safety regime adding six months to delivery, says Unite

Student developer has deployed half of last year's £450m equity raise, according to trading update

www.building.co.uk

WELL THERE'S A SURPRISE

 

[V8Druid]

Buckingham Plant Hire quits heavy plant sector

Buckingham Plant Hire is closing its heavy plant operations after 69 years in the sector in the wake of the collapse of its biggest customer.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

" Buckingham Plant Hire is closing its heavy plant operations after 69 years in the sector in the wake of the collapse of its biggest customer ... (after) sister company Buckingham Group Contracting went into administration "

Hercules quits suction excavator business

Hercules Site Services has decided to quit the suction excavator market to focus on its core business of labour supply.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

 

[V8Druid]

https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/planning-approvals-continue-to-fall#google_vignette

Smarmer's on track then
" areas in greatest need of new homes facing the most significant barriers to development. .... Planning approvals will need to increase by more than 150% to meet the government’s target of 370,000 homes annually, which is a huge leap from the current figures. .........
The lack of affordable housing is impacting communities across the country, and without a stable demand for new homes, the industry lacks the confidence to invest in building the homes that are desperately needed. ......... (with) a lack of providers in the market to take on the affordable housing developers build. "

The 1.5 million-home question: Does the government’s planning reform programme add up?

Ministers unleashed a barrage of planning reforms in the dying days of 2024. Joey Gardiner asks if these can give the industry the boost it needs to get anywhere close to the government's ambitious housebuilding target?

www.building.co.uk

not a snowball's chance ....

 

[V8Druid]

good luck with your optimism -- rose tints deployed

Bloor Homes sees profit and turnover slide but firm ‘optimistic' over government’s housing policies

Country's largest privately-owned housebuilder praises Labour's commitment to build

www.building.co.uk

 

[V8Druid]

New building safety regime adding six months to delivery, says Unite

Student developer has deployed half of last year's £450m equity raise, according to trading update

www.building.co.uk

WELL THERE'S A SURPRISE

ditto above

Clients show ‘total lack of engagement’ with Building Safety Act, building engineering group says

Trade body says government needs to begin public awareness campaign

www.building.co.uk

Good times may be coming, but can we survive that long?

While many across the construction industry fear the impact of government fiscal policies, others are buying into Starmer’s promises and predict good times round the corner.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

" ........buying into Starmer’s promises and predict good times round the corner. "

 

[V8Druid]

is this the same Lendlease as are in the deepest of tish in China and virtually bankrupt ??

Lendlease agrees £35m sale of UK construction business

Lendlease has entered into a binding agreement to sell it UK construction business to US industrial conglomerate Atlas Holdings.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

" ...... Atlas Holdings, whose portfolio of companies includes cladding specialist Permasteelisa ...... " who seem to have been providing a 'lifeboat' for several ISG 'ex-employees ' with some posts 'created' for them

 

[Gunners]

New homes: Scale of building challenge revealed by BBC housing tracker

The postcode lookup allows anyone in England to monitor new home-building targets in their area.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting calculator on the BBC website to see how many homes were built in your area last year, how many need to be built next year under the new targets and how many planning applications are successful....

Kensington and Chelsea have their work cut out - built 236 last year, new target is 5,107 PER YEAR! The borough is only 4.5 miles squared.....
Who comes up with this stuff?

Whilst the entire article is interesting in itself, the really key bit is the "Obstacles" section. They basically confirm my thoughts on labour shortage and a lack of willingness for private developers to build more in fear of lowering prices.
What I did not know was - and I quote;
"The Competition and Markets Authority concluded in February 2024, "private developers produce houses at a rate at which they can be sold without needing to reduce their prices".

They are investigating 8 housebuilders for information sharing - many of which are owned by each other

Plus the cost of Government bonds is higher than when Liz Truss played Monopoly the other year. Not going to be easy for the current Gov to borrow/ print more money for all this investment they are planning on doing.
Leaves them with two options - raise tax to fund it or don't do the spending.... I suspect we all can guess where this is going sadly.
Rory's @JD450A recession has been written on the walls for the last 5 years now but I'm increasingly thinking its upon us already but has some delayed symptoms. I know Shaun @TiltyShaun has said about this before.

 

[TiltyShaun]

New homes: Scale of building challenge revealed by BBC housing tracker

The postcode lookup allows anyone in England to monitor new home-building targets in their area.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting calculator on the BBC website to see how many homes were built in your area last year, how many need to be built next year under the new targets and how many planning applications are successful....

Kensington and Chelsea have their work cut out - built 236 last year, new target is 5,107 PER YEAR! The borough is only 4.5 miles squared.....
Who comes up with this stuff?

Whilst the entire article is interesting in itself, the really key bit is the "Obstacles" section. They basically confirm my thoughts on labour shortage and a lack of willingness for private developers to build more in fear of lowering prices.
What I did not know was - and I quote;
"The Competition and Markets Authority concluded in February 2024, "private developers produce houses at a rate at which they can be sold without needing to reduce their prices".

They are investigating 8 housebuilders for information sharing - many of which are owned by each other

Plus the cost of Government bonds is higher than when Liz Truss played Monopoly the other year. Not going to be easy for the current Gov to borrow/ print more money for all this investment they are planning on doing.
Leaves them with two options - raise tax to fund it or don't do the spending.... I suspect we all can guess where this is going sadly.
Rory's @JD450A recession has been written on the walls for the last 5 years now but I'm increasingly thinking its upon us already but has some delayed symptoms. I know Shaun @TiltyShaun has said about this before.

It is a drip drip drip of a slow down. Someone asked me today about different recessions I have seen. I don’t think we are in 2008. But I would not be surprised to have several years of nothingness in the way of growth. How can we have some many people financially inactive. I am running harder than ever to keep the money coming in to pay towards the school fees. Your family choice. But with interest rates as they are we have very little discretionary spending . Off Sking in Austria shortly but it is looking last the last of our holidays as the school fees, as darling daughter moves through the year groups is becoming eye watering. The worst part of it is, we wouldn’t want to go back to state. This country is failing everyone. No incentive to create anything as you are taxed to the hilt!! Sorry for the rant!!

 

[Lancs Lad]

New homes: Scale of building challenge revealed by BBC housing tracker

The postcode lookup allows anyone in England to monitor new home-building targets in their area.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting calculator on the BBC website to see how many homes were built in your area last year, how many need to be built next year under the new targets and how many planning applications are successful....

Kensington and Chelsea have their work cut out - built 236 last year, new target is 5,107 PER YEAR! The borough is only 4.5 miles squared.....
Who comes up with this stuff?

Whilst the entire article is interesting in itself, the really key bit is the "Obstacles" section. They basically confirm my thoughts on labour shortage and a lack of willingness for private developers to build more in fear of lowering prices.
What I did not know was - and I quote;
"The Competition and Markets Authority concluded in February 2024, "private developers produce houses at a rate at which they can be sold without needing to reduce their prices".

They are investigating 8 housebuilders for information sharing - many of which are owned by each other

Plus the cost of Government bonds is higher than when Liz Truss played Monopoly the other year. Not going to be easy for the current Gov to borrow/ print more money for all this investment they are planning on doing.
Leaves them with two options - raise tax to fund it or don't do the spending.... I suspect we all can guess where this is going sadly.
Rory's @JD450A recession has been written on the walls for the last 5 years now but I'm increasingly thinking its upon us already but has some delayed symptoms. I know Shaun @TiltyShaun has said about this before.

5000 per year is an utter pipe dream.
Can't be right?
Preston did 1200 iirc in 22 which is nuts greenbelt disappearing faster than you can say biodiversity.

I know it's been Said before but their incompetence knows no bounds
The pledge of no income tax rise is a noose about their neck. Imagine what a 1% on everyone's pay packet would bring in?
And then pissing what appears to be every business in the UK off and then asking the red tape men for ideas on growth...I mean.
In one sense I almost feel sorry for folk who actually believed life would be better under them....as it's stands it worse than I imagined.

 

[bobthebuilder]

It is a drip drip drip of a slow down. Someone asked me today about different recessions I have seen. I don’t think we are in 2008. But I would not be surprised to have several years of nothingness in the way of growth. How can we have some many people financially inactive. I am running harder than ever to keep the money coming in to pay towards the school fees. Your family choice. But with interest rates as they are we have very little discretionary spending . Off Sking in Austria shortly but it is looking last the last of our holidays as the school fees, as darling daughter moves through the year groups is becoming eye watering. The worst part of it is, we wouldn’t want to go back to state. This country is failing everyone. No incentive to create anything as you are taxed to the hilt!! Sorry for the rant!!

its not a rant ,its the truth .my money is staying in ones pocket ,not going to buy anything big ,and no addition spending

 

[6feetdown]

New homes: Scale of building challenge revealed by BBC housing tracker

The postcode lookup allows anyone in England to monitor new home-building targets in their area.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting calculator on the BBC website to see how many homes were built in your area last year, how many need to be built next year under the new targets and how many planning applications are successful....

Kensington and Chelsea have their work cut out - built 236 last year, new target is 5,107 PER YEAR! The borough is only 4.5 miles squared.....
Who comes up with this stuff?

Whilst the entire article is interesting in itself, the really key bit is the "Obstacles" section. They basically confirm my thoughts on labour shortage and a lack of willingness for private developers to build more in fear of lowering prices.
What I did not know was - and I quote;
"The Competition and Markets Authority concluded in February 2024, "private developers produce houses at a rate at which they can be sold without needing to reduce their prices".

They are investigating 8 housebuilders for information sharing - many of which are owned by each other

Plus the cost of Government bonds is higher than when Liz Truss played Monopoly the other year. Not going to be easy for the current Gov to borrow/ print more money for all this investment they are planning on doing.
Leaves them with two options - raise tax to fund it or don't do the spending.... I suspect we all can guess where this is going sadly.
Rory's @JD450A recession has been written on the walls for the last 5 years now but I'm increasingly thinking its upon us already but has some delayed symptoms. I know Shaun @TiltyShaun has said about this before.

Seen earlier they rekon food is about to shoot up in the shops again another blow to people's budgets

 

[TiltyShaun]

Seen earlier they rekon food is about to shoot up in the shops again another blow to people's budgets

The cost of employing those at the bottom of the earnings scale has become disproportionately more expensive due to the employers NI cap being reduced. So don’t be surprised to see food inflation creep up. In fact you can delete food from that sentence!!
If Liz Truss crashed the economy with her mini budget that wasn’t implemented. I dread what is coming now with have Rachel Reeves and her budget that is being implemented!!

 

[V8Druid]

wonder how big the envelope was ??

" ......... handed an enforcement notice by Greenwich council in September 2023 following the discovery of 26 “main deviations” from consented plans. "

Greenwich tower scheme handed demolition order can stay with design changes, Planning Inspectorate rules

Developer Comer Homes has three years to remove orange cladding and must pay nearly £7m to council

www.building.co.uk

 

[V8Druid]

wanna start buying more of what's available first, 'fore they start dictating what they want built ......

Welsh landlords standardise house designs

An alliance of Welsh social housing landlords have produced a catalogue of templates for low cost, energy efficient homes.

www.theconstructionindex.co.uk

More than 17,000 homes stalled due to lack of ‘section 106’ bids from housing associations, says HBF

Number of building sites with delays quadrupled between March and October

www.building.co.uk

" many providers (HA,s) are preferring to concentrate on their own sites where they can deliver larger numbers of affordable homes. "

Dev.s are gonna have to start taking some hits then, to unload the AH elements, to fulfill their planning requirements, if they actually want to build their 'profitable' units