Prefabs Sprouting @PrefabsSprout
Official Twitter account of the ESRC-funded project "Prefabs Sprouting: modern methods of construction and the English housing crisis" 2022-2024. PI @wallazio essl.leeds.ac.uk/sociology-rese… Joined January 2022-
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Three Caledonian Modular-built schools to be demolished dlvr.it/SzjnSl
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Housebuilding falls to lowest level since covid-19 lockdown, says NHBC: The last time new registrations for the NHBC’s 10-year warranty dropped to around 20,000 was in the second quarter of 2020 dlvr.it/SyYQNw #ukhousing #housing
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Housing Today (£) ‘L&G Modular (in wind down phase) reports £120m pre-tax loss for 2022: ‘The losses comes on top of cumulative £174m loss. Did nobody dare tell (now ex) L&G boss Sir Nigel Wilson that you have to sell them as well as make them? housingtoday.co.uk/news/landg-mod…
676,304 empty homes in England in 2022 (over 240,000 classified as long-term empty) commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…
At least one-tenth of Tory donations since 2010 are from property industry theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
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This simultaneously illustrates the ignorance of both some media & government. UK construction has lost 296,000 workers in the last 4 years but as it is mainly self-employed workers, adding them to the Shortage Occupation List doesn't help as... #ukconstruction #construction
This simultaneously illustrates the ignorance of both some media & government. UK construction has lost 296,000 workers in the last 4 years but as it is mainly self-employed workers, adding them to the Shortage Occupation List doesn't help as... #ukconstruction #construction https://t.co/pdhpD6LE5y
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471 UK construction firms went out of business in May 2023, which is 65.8% higher than in April, 34.2% higher than a year ago & 77.7% higher than in January 2020, pre-pandemic, according to Government's Insolvency Service as... (1/n) #ukconstruction #construction #insolvencies
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🧵Began reporting over winter for @TheBristolCable on what seemed like simple issues at an estate being built by insurance giant Legal & General using modular construction, where homes are mostly made in a factory. L&G's CEO & Bristol's mayor 'launched' the scheme last autumn>
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Gov (e) announces a wholesale review of the ‘efficacy, efficiency and accountability’ of Homes England. A good place to start would be to ask this question: How many fewer affordable homes would be built if the organisation did not exist? gov.uk/government/pub…
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@TopHatIO is delighted to confirm today a £70m investment in our business from new and existing shareholders, including leading house builder @PersimmonHomes and institutional investor @avivaplc. thetimes.co.uk/article/tophat…
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Today's @PrefabsSprout field trip was to the shifting housing landscape of Basildon. NU Living housing factory recently mothballed but restructuring of Craylands estate continues with MMC homes a major part
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Braintree, home to prefabs old and new @PrefabsSprout
The Royal Town Planning Institute have raised concerns that changes to the National Planning Policy Framework 'will further reduce the amount of homes and infrastructure delivered across England' as they upset the planning system's checks and balances.
The Royal Town Planning Institute have raised concerns that changes to the National Planning Policy Framework 'will further reduce the amount of homes and infrastructure delivered across England' as they upset the planning system's checks and balances.
The BSI has been commissioned to develop UK standards for housing built with modern methods of construction. This follows a review of whether fire safety guidance was apt for MMC. These policy decisions all seem to be a response to the 2019 MHCLG Inquiry on barriers to MMC uptake
The BSI has been commissioned to develop UK standards for housing built with modern methods of construction. This follows a review of whether fire safety guidance was apt for MMC. These policy decisions all seem to be a response to the 2019 MHCLG Inquiry on barriers to MMC uptake
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Fascinating visit today to this factory-built housing development in Chatham for @PrefabsSprout assembled in the site of the barracks
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We are facing a housing downturn that will put many families and our country’s economic prospects into serious difficulty. How can we address this while fixing the deeper problems within our housing system? Read more in our latest report 👇 jrf.org.uk/report/reboot-…
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