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Platform and Voicescape win national award for exceptional resident engagement

Tuesday, 3rd February 2026

Platform Housing Group’s innovative partnership with Voicescape has scooped a national award at this year’s National Housing Maintenance Forum (NHMF) Awards. The organisations were recognised in the Best Resident Impact – Exceptional Engagement and Outcomes for Residents’ category for their collaborative... View Article

Vent-Axia’s Lo-Carbon PureAir Cleanse Sets a New Benchmark for Air Quality Monitoring

Tuesday, 3rd February 2026

Vent-Axia has unveiled the industry’s first dedicated continuous-running Decentralised Mechanical Extract Ventilation (dMEV) unit with an integrated indoor air quality sensor (IAQ). The Lo-Carbon PureAir Cleanse combines intelligent humidity control with advanced air quality sensing, which detects, measures, and helps... View Article

Land Studio celebrates a decade of nature led design

Tuesday, 3rd February 2026

Land Studio, the Chester and North Wales based specialist landscape and environmental design studio, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Over the past decade, Land Studio has grown from a small design practice into a respected multi-disciplinary studio combining landscape architecture,... View Article

Clarendon community in Coventry launches three statement show homes at 182-home collection

Monday, 2nd February 2026

Award-winning homebuilder Spitfire Homes has unveiled three statement show homes at Clarendon, its brand-new collection in Coventry, where 182 design-led homes are being created. Clarendon is located on the western edge of the city near Burton Green, with a mix... View Article

Keepmoat appoints new Land and Partnerships Director

Monday, 2nd February 2026

Top 10 UK homebuilder, Keepmoat, has announced the appointment of Guy Evans as Land and Partnerships Director for the Yorkshire West region. Guy’s appointment will see him work alongside the existing land team and oversee the delivery of a regional... View Article

Housebuilder Honey reveals first full year of trading figures including £71.2m turnover and 23.4% private sales gross margin

Monday, 2nd February 2026

Honey also announces profit of £3.6m for year ended 31 December 2025 As at 1 February 2026, the housebuilder has secured 29 sites that will deliver 4,371 homes with a combined gross development value of £1.3bn Honey plans to open... View Article

NHBC brings sector leaders together for second annual Innovators – Affordable Housing event

Monday, 2nd February 2026

NHBC, the UK’s leading new homes warranty and insurance provider, recently hosted the second annual Innovators – Affordable Housing event in partnership with the British Property Federation (BPF). A continuation of NHBC’s popular Innovators series, this year’s event was called ‘Mind the gap – fund the... View Article

ASWS applies gold standard in addressing bronze shopfronts for Oxford Street retail refurbishment

Sunday, 1st February 2026

Operations Director for Associated Steel Window Services (ASWS), Kris Bennell, reflects on the work to restore three large system glazed bronze shopfronts and the historic doors now opening into the new Ikea store in one of London’s busiest retail locations. Best known... View Article

Government extends New Homes Accelerator to sites under 500 homes

Friday, 30th January 2026

Housing Secretary Steve Reed has confirmed that the second round of the New Homes Accelerator site ‘unblocking’ programme will be expanded to cover “smaller sites under 500 homes,” with a “sharp focus on getting homes built this Parliament and ramping... View Article

Bennetts Associates delivers low-carbon focused retrofit of 5 New Street Square

Friday, 30th January 2026

The retrofit of 5 New Street Square for Landsec, designed by Bennetts Associates, has completed. Transforming the central London office building into a high-performing, contemporary workplace that demonstrates how the retrofit of commercial buildings can deliver low-carbon retrofit and improved... View Article

Mears Group awarded 10 year repairs and maintenance contract with Birmingham City Council

Friday, 30th January 2026

Mears Group has secured a new 10-year contract to deliver repairs and maintenance services as well as planned investment works to 11,500 homes in the central and west of Birmingham, working on behalf of Birmingham City Council. Estimated to be... View Article

WISH welcomes Remington Hall as a new sponsor

Friday, 30th January 2026

WISH (Women in Social Housing) is delighted to welcome Remington Hall as a new sponsor, marking the beginning of a partnership grounded in shared values around equality, integrity and social impact within the housing sector. Established in 1996, Remington Hall is a... View Article

EGGER supports housebuilders with new product-specific EPDs

Friday, 30th January 2026

Underlining its commitment to sustainable construction, EGGER UK has introduced new product-specific Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its chipboard-based structural flooring products. These EPDs provide clearer and more accurate information about the product’s carbon performance, helping housebuilders access reliable data... View Article

Rinnai expands cost-effective continuous flow hot water heaters

Friday, 30th January 2026

Rinnai’s innovative KCM series of continuous flow hot water heaters is designed to specifically increase customer savings in energy, capital, and carbon footprint with the inclusion of internally refined technological advancements. It operates at 93% efficiency. The KCM unit has... View Article

27 suppliers appointed to £500m social housing emerging disruptors framework as demand accelerates

Thursday, 29th January 2026

Procurement for Housing (PfH) has appointed 27 suppliers to the fifth generation of its Social Housing Emerging Disruptors (SHED) framework – the largest cohort since the framework was established in 2022. The value of contracts awarded under SHED quadrupled in... View Article

Government package intended to boost social housing delivery

Thursday, 29th January 2026

The Government has announced a raft of measures to increase delivery of new social housing across the sector, towards its goal of 300,000 new social affordable homes over the next decade. As well as introducing “immediate” Section 106 changes to... View Article

Residential development in Peterborough celebrated by local authority for building excellence

Thursday, 29th January 2026

A Peterborough housing development has been awarded a host of industry accolades for its building excellence. Hampton Water, a residential community in South Peterborough, has won six Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Building Excellence Awards. Leading independent property developer, Morris... View Article

Government announces Section 106 changes and rent convergence alongside new Decent Homes Standard

Thursday, 29th January 2026

The Government has announced a raft of measures to improve the delivery of new social housing across the sector towards its goal of 300,000 new social affordable homes over the next decade, plus a new Decent Homes Standard to ensure... View Article