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Monthly Archives: January 2011

  • Better Late than Never - Sir Richard!

    Posted on January 31, 2011 by Professor Benfield

    Speaking Out

    At long last Sir Richard Lambert, retiring DG of the CBI, has found the courage to speak out against the Coalition Government’s failure to address the UK’s main growth engine - our Small & Medium Enterprises (SME’s).

    Localism Agenda is ‘Damaging’ Continue Reading


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  • The Coalition Government’s ‘Localism Bill’

    Posted on January 22, 2011 by Professor Benfield

    Planning for Development?

    Town and Country Planning, Spatial Planning, Environmental Planning, or whatever you may wish to call it, is at the heart of the debate over House Prices, Affordable Homes, and the number of houses being built.  Continue Reading


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  • Rowntree report focuses on local & regional UK House price changes

    Posted on January 19, 2011 by Professor Benfield

    UK is World’s Most Volatile Market

    According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the UK’s housing market is one of the world’s most volatile. Concerns raised include the way low-income households are being priced out of the housing market. Continue Reading


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  • Embedding Sustainable Development Across Government

    Posted on January 16, 2011 by Professor Benfield

    Government’s ‘Green’ Watchdog

    The Sustainable Development Commission is due to lose its funding next year. Currently it acts as an advisory watchdog on Green issues for the Coalition Government. Continue Reading


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  • 2011 - the "Year to Build the UK's Economic Recovery"

    Posted on January 11, 2011 by Professor Benfield

    More New Homes are the Answer

    The Home Builders Federation’s latest report ‘Building a Recovery – Reconstructing our Regions’, highlights the ways in which tackling the housing crisis and delivering the homes needed by the UK can deliver real economic benefits Continue Reading


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  • The "New Housing Pipeline" Report

    Posted on January 11, 2011 by Professor Benfield

    Dramatic Fall in Planning Permissions
    Published last Friday, Glenigan’s report to the Home Builders Federation shows planning permissions for new homes dropping at an alarming rate.  They are now at one of the lowest levels in the last five years, and the second lowest of the past 19 quarters. Continue Reading


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  • What has Eastenders, Single mums, and China got to do with Timber Frame?

    Posted on January 7, 2011 by Professor Benfield

    So, BBC soap’s Eastender’s latest story about baby snatching draws over 6,000 protests in 24 hours.  Meanwhile, an unemployed single teenage mum complains on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that she can’t leave her single bedroom flat, or afford to put her child in care so that she can train as a carer. Continue Reading


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