Carl Brown
Carl Brown is head of content at Building, Housing Today and Building Design.
He helps to shape the news, insight and analysis across all three titles.
He has many years of experience writing about the housing development market.
Contact info
- Tel:
- 07947 251 424
- Email:
- carl.brown@assemblemediagroup.co.uk
NewsHomes England to acquire BDP and Heatherwick’s stalled 1000-home Nottingham site
Project will see redevelopment of the site which houses the partially-demolished Broad Marsh shopping centre
NewsNPPF changes will result in 1.3 million homes built by the end of the parliament, OBR forecasts
Housebuilding to exceed 300,000 homes a year by 2029/30, excluding impact of forthcoming Affordable Homes Programme
NewsChurch of England completes registration of housing association
Church Housing Association is now a registered provider of social housing
NewsReeves announces extra £2bn for affordable homes
Sector welcomes grant funding, which is intended as a ’bridge’ between current programme and future grant to be announced in June
NewsGreen light for local architect’s Southampton marina scheme
HGP Architects’ scheme will not include affordable housing following viability assessment
NewsPRP gets green light for Watford tower scheme
Police station and magistrates court to be replaced with three-block mixed-use scheme
NewsThe government’s response to the Grenfell Inquiry: Key proposals at a glance
Ministers have today published their long-awaited plan in response to the inquiry into the Grenfell fire, which claimed 72 lives in 2017. Here is a guide to the key proposals.
NewsNew legislation on £400bn public procurement spend comes into force
Major shake-up of the way public bodies purchase goods and services starts today
NewsRayner announces £300m boost for affordable housing delivery
MHCLG says latest funding will deliver 2,800 homes, with half for social rent
NewsLords committee finds grey belt policy ‘unlikely to have significant impact’ on housebuilding
Lord Moylan warns Angela Rayner that policy has been “rushed and incoherent”
NewsReeves promises not to ‘renege’ on building safety regulation as 90 new high-rise projects held up by rules
Work on more than 700 blocks are waiting on design approval from regulator under Building Safety Act, new figures show
NewsMinisters pledge to double the size of the Oxford-Cambridge economy in boost for life sciences sector
Initiative has potential to add £78bn in GDP to UK economy
NewsStreeting revises timetable for New Hospital Programme with five schemes facing delay until 2039
Health secretary contrasts “honest, realistic, deliverable timetable” to Boris Johnson’s original pledge
NewsGreen light for Grimshaw and Figure Ground’s 10,000-home ‘garden town’ near Harlow
Places for People and Taylor Wimpey get go ahead after terms of section 106 deal agreed by East Hertfordshire Council
NewsClients show ‘total lack of engagement’ with Building Safety Act, says engineering services body
Trade body says government needs to begin public awareness campaign
NewsRayner to set out ‘devolution by default’ plan to give mayors more powers over development
MHCLG white paper to propose local government shakeup and more strategic powers for mayors to guide housing, transport and skills projects
NewsRayner announces plan to bypass local committees to stop developments ‘getting stuck in the system’
Housing secretary announces plan to remove ‘subjectiveness’ and allow applications to be approved if they follow the local plan and the NPPF
NewsTaskforce calls for cross-departmental unit to lead national older people’s housing strategy
Wide-ranging paper also calls for planning presumption in favour of later living housing and requirements on Homes England to support its expansion
NewsGovernment considers reforming Right to Buy to safeguard council housing stock
Newly-built housing could be exempt for a set period of time and eligibility periods extended as part of Rayner’s package of reforms to help councils protect their housing stock
NewsMPs launch inquiry into environmental impact of Starmer’s planning reforms
Environmental audit committee to probe environmental sustainability of the government’s plans for 1.5m homes