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Obama's construction led recovery shows Cameron the route to recovery

14/03/2012

The unemployment rate held at a 13-year high of 8.4% in the three months to January. While the jobless figure rose, the rate of increase appears to be slowing, but youth unemployment brought fur...

25,000 homes for growth

13/03/2012

Powerful housing lobby group, the Modern Masonry Alliance, is calling on the Government to forward finance right-to-buy receipts to start work immediately on building 25,000 homes for affordable re...

Get Britain Building campaign triumphs as NewBuy mortgage guarantees launched

12/03/2012

The Get Britain Building Campaign saw a year of lobbying pay off today as the Prime Minister launched NewBuy mortgage indemnity guarantees. The move by Government to guarantee risky mortgages is...

Call for social house building drive as homelessness spikes

08/03/2012

The number of homeless households put into bed and breakfast hotels has jumped nearly 40% to 3,170 last year. Latest figures from the Communities and Local Government also show that 48,510 house...

Home planning approvals running at half the level needed

01/03/2012

Planning permissions in England have halved in four years to just 115,000 homes. Figures released today in Home Builder Federation’s latest Housing Pipeline report revealed the lowest numb...

“Get Britain Building” to drive economic growth

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An £11bn investment in construction can kick start the UK’s economic recovery, say experts

An £11.27bn investment in construction and a series of strategic decisions around new home building can kick start the UK’s economic recovery and deliver a £33bn return for the Gover

Million Homes not Built

Analysis by the Local Government Association shows that 2,564,600 units have been granted planning permission by councils since 2009/10 while only 1,530,680 have been completed. The association sai