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Durkan, a leading London and Home Counties homebuilder, will deliver 87 new homes in Hatfield following the exchange of contracts with Hertfordshire County Council and Danes Educational Trust – with agreement facilitating multiple new facilities for Onslow St Audrey’s School... View Article

Work is starting on a new housing development in a sought-after Leicestershire village, after the award-winning housebuilder William Davis Homes agreed to purchase the site from a local family. Outline planning permission had already been granted for the scheme in... View Article

Overestimates of the amount of river polluting nutrients housebuilding generates is leading councils to delay 100,000 new homes’ planning applications, claims the Home Builders Federation. A new report by planning consultancy Lichfields shows Natural England’s pollutant methodology to be based... View Article

Miller Homes, one of the UK’s leading private housebuilders, has recently appointed sector expert, Stephen Stone as a senior non-executive director to the board. Stephen has had a highly distinguished 40-year career in housebuilding, most notably as CEO of Crest... View Article

Thousands of first-time buyers will miss out on a help-to-buy loan due to the government introducing a new deadline for reserving a property by the 31st of October. Originally consumers could reserve a home by the end of December if the new... View Article

Buckinghamshire-based developer Inland Homes is hoping to add another two awards to its already brimming portfolio later this year, following the news that it has been shortlisted for two First-Time Buyer Reader’s Awards. The leading housebuilder has been nominated in... View Article

In the latest episode of the Building Insights podcast, produced by netMAGmedia, James Parker speaks with landscape architect Sue Illman, a passionate SuDS advocate who comments on the developer’s role in futureproofing schemes against climate change. Although there have been... View Article

Two new employees have joined Mansfield based housebuilder Rippon Homes’ commercial team following the developer’s recent success and as part of its growth plan. With more developments in progress than ever before, Rippon Homes has been expanding its team by... View Article

Stewart Milne Group, in partnership with Barratt Developments and Forster Group, has won Innovation of the Year (Transition to Net Zero) at the Homes for Scotland Awards for its Advanced Industrialised Methods of the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) project. Originally... View Article

Local primary school pupils have played their part in creating a “blossoming” new community, as part of an open weekend at five-star housebuilder Lovell Homes’ development Blossomfield in Thorp Arch. Located in Wetherby, the development is home to 119 two-,... View Article

Higgins is working in partnership with the London Borough of Newham to create 223 affordable ‘Passivhaus’ homes across three new developments. The developments at Greenhill Centre, John Street and Hathaway Crescent have been designed with high levels of sustainability and... View Article