Construction
Housebuilding starts up (a bit) with Cambridge and Southwark leading the way
The Office for National Statistics records 36,400 new housebuilding starts in Q2, and 34,920 completions
Lendlease signs £200m deal to deliver Damac’s Nine Elms Aykon
450-unit development will have interiors designed by Versace Home
Boom time for specialist contractors; demolition firms smashing it
UK's top 10 demolition firms saw combined revenues rise by a 27.4%
Central London’s ‘new-build crisis’: Over-supply and falling values are ‘a major concern’
Demand seems to be drying up for new-build apartments in central London as planning pipelines balloon, reports investment house London Central Portfolio, with a worsening case of over-supply - which the…
Building London: Mapping how development activity in the capital has changed since 1900
This is quite interesting.
Reality Checks: Understanding the Building Survey Report
More than seven million UK homeowners chose not to have a survey on their current property
PCL development land values slide back to 2014’s level
The value of development land in prime central London has tumbled by 9.4% on the year, sliding back to levels last seen in the Summer of 2014.
Q2's quite dramatic -6.
Westminster’s anti-iceberg basement rules are now in play
Westminster Council's anti-iceberg rules came into effect this week, making it exceptionally difficult to create big-scale basement extensions in the borough.
Architects come up with 20 ways to ‘tackle the housing crisis’
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has set out a hashtagged batch of proposals to deal with what it calls "the UK’s dire housing crisis".
New home registrations at highest level since the crash (but what’s going on in London?)
A total of 41,222 new homes were registered by the National House Building Council throughout the UK in Q2, an uptick of 1% on the same period last year.
Architects implore government to keep free movement following Brexit
All five professional bodies representing architects across the British Isles have issued a joint statement, after a big powwow in Belfast to discuss the implications of the UK referendum to leave…
Ten new starters at TowerEight
String of project wins