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  • UKREiiF 2026: Housing minister announces national rollout of small sites aggregator
  • ‘Beds in sheds’: Will looser planning rules on garden homes lead to shoddier housing?
  • Housing charity concerned at risk to tenants under modular home plan

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building.co.uk /1 week ago

UKREiiF 2026: Housing minister announces national rollout of small sites aggregator

Plans for new pattern book of standardised house designs for local authority use also revealed

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irishtimes.com /1 month ago

‘Beds in sheds’: Will looser planning rules on garden homes lead to shoddier housing?

Local authorities will be in charge of enforcing building regulations when it comes to modular homes

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irishtimes.com /1 month ago

Housing charity concerned at risk to tenants under modular home plan

Threshold raises concerns over proposed planning exemption and rent-a-room changes

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independent.ie /1 month ago

‘It’s like a circus’ – inside the chaotic six-hour council meeting to find more land for new homes

Local authorities are rushing to rezone land for building homes in response to a call from the Department of Housing to meet targets.

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irishtimes.com /6 days ago

Planning rules for one-off housing to be eased under new proposals

Changes will be a ‘loosening’ of current restrictions but ‘not a free for all’, Government source says

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rte.ie /3 weeks ago

31 councils zoning more land for housing, cttee to hear

All 31 local authorities have now begun work on zoning more land for housing as requested by the Minister for Housing.

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southleedslife.com /3 days ago

Meeting will discuss controversial Beeston housing development

A controversial planning application to build supported housing for people at risk of homelessness in Beeston will be discussed at a meeting on Monday (1 June 2026). St George’s Cr...

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building.co.uk /2 weeks ago

Housing Today and G15 call for increased devolution of funding in latest report

The recommendation is among 10 ideas outlined in annual State of the Capital report

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ukconstructionblog.co.uk /1 month ago

Building a Block of Flats: Involve? and Initial Planning and Site Selection

The post Building a Block of Flats: Involve? and Initial Planning and Site Selection appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Building a block of flats is a multi-stage development...

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heraldscotland.com /1 month ago

Over 100 new affordable homes planned for Edinburgh - The Herald

Over 100 new affordable homes planned for Edinburgh - The Herald

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southwalesargus.co.uk /1 week ago

Plans for 28 social homes lodged as housing demand passes 1,000 applications

Plans for 28 homes for social rent have been lodged with Blaenau Gwent county planners at the site of a former care home in Brynmawr.

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irishexaminer.com /1 month ago

Plans for new neighbourhood comprising over 100 homes on Cork City's northside lodged with council

Proposed development comprises 53 apartments and 51 houses on a part-brownfield, part-greenfield site at Popes Hill in Blackpool 

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independent.ie /1 day ago

Questions over why housing applicants at top of list denied new homes by Wexford council

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bbc.com /3 weeks ago

'Urgent action' needed on lack of social housing

The Executive pledged to spend £115m on new social housing but new figures show only £3m has been made available.

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edinburghnews.scotsman.com /3 weeks ago

Slow response to Edinburgh’s housing emergency shortfall - Iain Whyte

The top concern people raise with politicians at present is the cost of living. In Edinburgh a huge part of that is the costs of housing, yet very few have plans that would get mo...

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southwalesargus.co.uk /2 weeks ago

Council plans to use hundreds of thousands from housing developers on homelessness

Small housing developments have had to pay a cash sum towards affordable housing.

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nextbigfuture.com /1 month ago

Housing Supply and Demand

Metro areas/states allowing sprawl (Texas metros like Dallas/Houston permitted ~72k homes in 2024 alone) + densification (Minneapolis, Auckland NZ upzoning → 21–24% rent drops in t...

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irishtimes.com /1 month ago

Agreement in principle on plan to allow tax-free rental of back garden cabins

Government spokesman says some Ministers have ‘a few questions’ about how plan will work practically

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building.co.uk /1 day ago

Mayor of London and MHCLG to press ahead with new town plan despite Enfield Council withdrawal​

Mayor and MHCLG looking at range of delivery options for 21,000-home project which is listed in government’s New Towns Programme

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rte.ie /3 days ago

Govt preparing overhaul of rural housing rules - Tánaiste

Tánaiste Simon Harris has told the Fine Gael parliamentary party that the Government is preparing the biggest overhaul of rural housing rules in two decades.

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thejournal.ie /1 month ago

Move to allow garden cabins will ‘remove red tape’, say Tánaiste and Housing Minister

Concerns over the fact occupants of these new cabins will be regarded as licensees rather than tenants have been flagged.

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irishtimes.com /1 month ago

Over 240 people apply for 36 new Dublin homes on sale at prices starting at €291K

Properties are first of 176 homes at Skerries site being developed by Land Development Agency and Lydon building firm

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irishtimes.com /1 week ago

Number of apartments under construction in Dublin rises, but house building slows

Decisions on planning applications awaited for 13,600 housing units, down from backlog of 34,400

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rte.ie /1 month ago

Proposed exemptions for modular homes brought to Cabinet

A proposal to grant planning exemptions for modular homes of up to 45sq.m in back gardens has been brought to the Cabinet.

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