Government responds to Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report

The Government has published a response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s Phase 1 report, which sets out the steps it intends to take to implement the report’s recommendations at pace, as well as the wider work it is doing to [...]

Tackling climate change will force us to make huge lifestyle changes

Household domestic energy use currently accounts for roughly 29% of the UK’s total energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Radically reducing this figure is vital if the country is to achieve its goals of cutting emissions to 51% of 1990 [...]

Toyota to build prototype city of the future in Japan

Toyota has revealed plans to build a prototype “city” of the future on a 175-acre site at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan. Announced at CES 2020, the global consumer technology show in Las Vegas, the Woven City will [...]

New Government reveals housing plans in Queen's Speech

The new UK Government has touched on its housing plans as part of the Queen's Speech, aiming to help home-buyers and renters, devolve power and funding to communities and improve building safety. The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government [...]

Lead by the landscape

Click here to listen to this story ► Over 100 new apartments are in the works in the Surrey town of Oxted, offering countryside living within commuting distance of the capital. Alison Dowsett, managing director of St William Homes, explains [...]
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LGA responds to building safety announcements

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Adapt to the needs of ‘generation rent’

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Permitted paving

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