London’s oldest housing charity, Peabody, has selected Lendlease as Preferred Bidder for the £8bn, 11,500 home, Thamesmead Waterfront development in south-east London. The move means that, subject to contracts being finalised, Lendlease will work with Peabody in a corporate joint [...]

Weston Logistics, part of volume housebuilder Weston Group, has opened the Braintree Logistics Centre, a vast new 75,000 sqft (6,970m2) distribution and build-of-site complex, which is one of the most advanced in the UK construction industry. Effectively a ‘housebuilding factory’, the new hybrid [...]

While only a relatively modestly- scaled development with 27 homes, Marklake Court is being seen as an exemplar of a community-led social housing project. Jack Wooler spoke to Hari Phillips, director at project architects Bell Phillips, about how the south [...]

Situated on the banks of the Thames, Royal Arsenal Riverside is a £1.2bn regeneration scheme including historic building conversions, that will include over 5,000 homes on completion. Jack Wooler reports for Housebuilder & Developer on one of the major developments [...]

The Ministry of Housing has announced further details of its ban of combustible cladding on tower blocks following the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire. The ban on the use of combustible materials applies to buildings that are more than 18 metres [...]