Construction industry
Banking
UK government links with Barratt and Lloyds for £150m housebuilding project
Barratt and Lloyds Banking Group have launched a £150m joint-venture with the government body Homes England that will lead to the UK’s largest housebuilder and mortgage provider capitalising on...
Business
Grenfell building firm criticised by inquiry handed contracts worth millions after fire
The building firm found to have borne “considerable responsibility” for the Grenfell fire with its “casual attitude to...
Business
Construction industry’s ‘rotten culture’ faces reckoning after Grenfell report
After the damning findings of the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire and with the threat of...
Annual results
Barratt profits plunge 75% as number of houses built slumps
Barratt Developments has suffered a 75% drop in annual profit and a double-digit decline in home completions after...
Final Grenfell inquiry report released as companies involved brace for criticism
Companies and public authorities involved in the Grenfell Tower refurbishment are braced for wide-ranging criticisms when the final public inquiry report on the 2017...
Can new towns give Keir Starmer the answer to Britain’s housing crisis?
The best way to view Ebbsfleet is from a low hill above the muddy banks of the Thames estuary. Here, between the chalk cliffs,...