A more strategic approach to mitigating pollution impacts in housebuilding could deliver greater benefits for nature than the current case-by-case system, according to the Wildlife Trusts.

Will Mann speaks to Miller Homes’ Jo Stott, who has led the working group behind the Homes for Nature commitment.

The government will need to deliver 450,000 homes in its final year if it wants to meet its target of 1.5m homes by 2029, according to the projections of a new report.

Shoreline is a one-of-a-kind development that hopes to attract new homeowners to the seaside town of Folkestone. Contractor and CIOB member company Jenner is so committed it even put some serious skin in the game. Kristina Smith reports.

The construction industry has widely welcomed the new Labour government’s housing and planning reforms announced in the King’s Speech on 17 July.

Construction quality of new-build homes is a growing concern. Here CM asks Sue Redding of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute how consumers are protected by the Approved Code Scheme.

Major housebuilders have signed up to a scheme to support wildlife and bring nature closer to people.

The Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into eight housebuilders for suspected breaches of competition law.

Construction output is forecast to fall by 2.1% this year due to falls in private housing new build and repair, maintenance and improvement, says the CPA.

The way nutrient loads are calculated must be changed if we want to end the current hiatus in housebuilding, writes Stephen Wielebski.

Despite the financial hardships impacting the industry, homebuilders should avoid rolling back on quality and sustainability, writes Pablo Cristi Worm.

CIOB is backing a new All-Party Parliamentary Group report addressing the issues faced by SME house builders when accessing finance. 

A plan to ramp up the building of new council homes has been unveiled by the not-for-profit Housing & Finance Institute (HFI) and think tank Localis.

Housing secretary Michael Gove has written to competition watchdog the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to undertake a study of the housebuilding market.

The government has watered down its housebuilding targets, as it set out new measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.

A London council has rejected newspaper claims that it would not be possible to build housing in parts of west London because of power supply constraints as “scaremongering”.

The first Future Homes Standard projects are under way. Hannah Giebus sets out the changes required by 2025 and the interim uplift which comes in this June.

Housing association Midland Heart is pioneering one of the first Future Homes Standard developments, led by its head of construction Tony Hopkin.