Making city living sexy again

6 September 2018

Tom Bloxham MBE is a British property developer and founder of urban renewal property development company Urban Splash

When we first started out in Manchester and Liverpool over 25 years ago, urban living had largely lost its appeal – there were fewer than 200 people living in either of the city centres.

In areas like Park Hill in Sheffield, the Cardroom Estate in Manchester – now better known as New Islington – and Langworthy (now Chimney Pot Park) in Salford, by and large...

Tackling the barriers to building new homes – it’s all about the quantity and the quality

30 August 2018

Mark Farmer is Founder Director and CEO of Cast Real Estate & Construction Consultancy

In 2016, I wrote a review of the UK construction industry called Modernise or Die. It made a series of recommendations aimed at the Government, the construction industry and also the development industry that ultimately commissions construction work.

Housing associations working together to end homelessness

1 August 2018

Chris Hancock is the Head of Housing for Crisis

It is evident that the supply of the right type of housing is vital if we are to end homelessness. However, an increase in housing supply by itself will not provide the solution if homeless people are unable to access homes or keep hold of them.

Asking ourselves those big questions

19 July 2018

Tim Abbott is a member of the Steering Group for the National Housing Summit and Head of Corporate Affairs, Sovereign

The day after the referendum on the European Union, a friend of mine explained to me why he’d voted leave. He said he didn’t know what the future held outside the EU, but it had to be better than the way things were. In the days and months that followed, the voices of other people who felt trapped, abandoned or without hope of a better future choosing change – any change – became louder. For those that work in housing, perhaps this was not a surprise.

What makes a conference great?

25 April 2018

Henry Gregg is Member Relations Director at the National Housing Federation

We can all think back to events or speakers that have inspired us. The ones where we have come back to the office with a nugget of information or keen to try a new approach or idea that we have just heard about.