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6th November 2009
NextGeneration members Crest Nicholson, Barratt Developments and Miller Homes were all amongst the prizes at the recent Housebuilding Innovation Awards in London, hosted by Housebuilder magazine.
Crest Nicholson was named Housebuilding Innovator of the Year (large companies) and Sustainable Housebuilder of the Year and Miller Homes took the Best Low/Zero Carbon Initiative of the Year Award for its Miller Zero project. Barratt was a joint winner of the Best Marketing Award. Congratulations to our members on their achievements.
29 September 2009
Discussion paper released warning government of gap in housing supply
A discussion paper Mind the Gap – Housing Supply in a Cold Climate by David Pretty and Paul Hackett for the Smith Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and published by the Town and Country Planning Association, says this year there will be a housing supply deficit of around 150,000 homes.
The analysis, based on discussions with over 100 senior representatives from across the housing sector, predicts that housing completions in 2009 are likely to be under 100,000, a 40 per cent drop from its peak, and well short of the government’s target of at least 250,000 new homes a year.
The report predicts a total shortfall in England of one million houses by the end of 2010.
To read the full report, please click here.
Low Carbon Infrastructure Initiative
Details of the successful schemes for the first tranche of funding from the HCA were announced on the 20th July. The initiative, a partnership between Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Communities and Local Government (CLG), aims to provide funding for schemes across the country to benefit from new and existing low carbon energy plants by creating the infrastructure needed to link them up. For details on the successful projects and comment from Sir Bob Kerslake and John Healey
click here.
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