All articles by Joey Gardiner – Page 8
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News
Vistry to lay off around 100 staff following Countryside takeover
Redundancies come under plans for enlarged firm to save £50m annually
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Features
Top 50 Housebuilders 2022: in-depth analysis
Exclusive data and full analysis on the biggest homebuilders in the UK
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News
Gove rips up compromises on cladding pledge contract
Housebuilders set for confrontation with housing secretary over legal wording underpinning £2bn cladding pledge
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Warning of ‘complete collapse’ in local plan-making after Gove announcement
Developer groups fear the government has “given up” on housing delivery despite asserted support for 300,000-home target
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Housebuilders hit back at ‘anti-development’ building safety levy
Representatives of homebuilders say the government is punishing ‘innocent’ firms for the failures of ‘the few’
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Gove pulls key planning reform vote as rebellion grows
Vote on Levelling Up Bill axed as Tory gets 46 supporters for rebel amendment to scrap housing targets
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Councils to get new powers to block planning permission
Government amendments to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to designed to stop housebuilders landbanking
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Housebuilders say ‘bitterly disappointing’ autumn statement does nothing to help sector
Issues over stamp duty, planning and number of homes being built not addressed by chancellor, firms add
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Comment
Fight with housebuilders on the cards as Gove goes back to the future
The re-appointment of Michael Gove as housing secretary is likely to mean the return of fraught discussions about building safety costs
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Hunt reverses Kwarteng’s ‘permanent’ stamp duty cut from 2025
Decision comes as OBR forecasts long term pain in housing market
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Gove says he will use planning powers to stop ‘ugly housing’
Secretary of state says design of too many developments is not good enough
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Vistry set to reverse Countryside’s decision to pull out of modular after takeover inked
New owner says firm’s three factories have not been performing as well as they should have
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Vistry £1.2bn takeover of Countryside completes
Merged housebuilder to start trading shares from Monday
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Features
Why Nigel Wilson is persisting with L&G’s huge housing push
L&G’s chief tells Joey Gardiner why not all of its investments have worked out so far – and why he remains optimistic that they will
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News
Taylor Wimpey sales rate slumps by more than 40%
Housebuilder sees sharp rise in cancellations but says it is operating from a ‘postion of strength’
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Persimmon blames Westminister ‘disruption’ as sales slide and cancellations spike
Housebuilder’s shares hit as firm cancels shareholders payout scheme and raises building safety allocation to £350m
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Confusion as ‘housing minister’ says he has local government brief
Department refuses to confirm that Lucy Frazer to be named as fifth housing minister this year in place of Lee Rowley
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‘Uncomfortably bumpy landing’ for house prices predicted despite August rise
Official figures show annual price inflation was running at 13.6% in August prior to Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget announcement
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Barratt shareholders protest over lack of women on board
Housebuilder says it will announce appointment of new female non-exec within two weeks
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Bellway abandons plans to build 1,000 more homes this year as market fears deepen
Housebuilder says it will pare back targets because of mini-budget’s impact