Commercial developers have long been offered financial incentives to build on brownfield sites but new research* from Ipswich Building Society shows that individual self builders would be more likely to consider these sites if they too were offered similar inducements.... View Article

Industry leaders have agreed a key step towards insuring and mortgaging new homes built using Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), Housing Minister Christopher Pincher has announced. Warranty providers have signed a Memorandum of Understanding agreeing to take meaningful steps towards... View Article

The new Xi’an International Football Centre will be 60,000-seat stadium for national and international matches as well as domestic league games, youth training academies, entertainment performances and cultural events. The centre will be located in Xi’an’s Fengdong New District with its stations... View Article

The government has released new figures on homelessness in England today. They show that between January and March 2020: A quarter (25%) of households (19,160) who were facing homelessness and applied to their local council for assistance were renting from... View Article

Construction of a new £15 million Care and Rehabilitation Centre for Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People (QEF) in Leatherhead, Surrey has reached completion with the new facility opening to clients last month. LOM architecture and design and contractor Buxton... View Article

Planning permission has been granted by Nottingham City Council for the highly anticipated multi-million-pound development of Nottingham’s Guildhall, which brings the currently vacant building into its next lifetime and will create more than 250 jobs for the city. The planning... View Article

Kitchen: Neutral coloured and muted tones are the key to the cottagecore trend – whilst not everyone can live in a countryside cottage, that feeling can very much be brought into  your home in the form of a country style... View Article

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has opened a new National Scenic Routes attraction with a staircase bridge over the Vøringsfossen waterfall in the Hardangerfjord region. Vøringsfossen is perhaps the best-known waterfall in Norway, with vast quantities of water plunging 182... View Article

A new programme worth up to £9.5m million will reduce the carbon footprint of existing social housing in Wales, make energy bills more manageable for residents and provide new job and training opportunities. The Optimised Retrofit Programme (ORP), part of... View Article