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  • HBF/Glenigan Housing Pipeline Q4 2016

    Planning permissions up but smaller sites needed – HBF/Glenigan  The number of new home planning permissions continues to rise, with permission for 293,127 new homes granted in 2016, according to the latest HBF/Glenigan Housing Pipeline survey. This is the highest yearly total recorded since the report, compiled by Glenigan, began in 2006. Plot permissions now […]

  • Glenigan Index – May 2017

    Snap election delays project starts Starts in the three months to May were 8% lower than a year ago. Non-residential project starts were 17% down on the same period in 2016, due to falls in offices, retail, hotel & leisure, education and community & amenity project. Residential starts were 3% lower on a year ago, […]

  • Glenigan Index – June 2017

    Election disrupts non-residential starts but private housing activity improving Starts in the three months to June were 4% lower than a year ago. Non-residential project starts were 14% down on the same period in 2016, due to falls in retail, health, education and community & amenity projects. Residential starts were 14% up on a year […]

  • Glenigan/JLL Commercial Index Q2-2015

    JLL and Glenigan’s latest  UK Commercial Construction Activity Index shows commercial construction volumes continuing to rise, with Scotland and the North West seeing a surge in new activity.   The full report is available to download here.

  • Sanctuary

    Last updated 6 July 2022 Sanctuary Housing Sanctuary is one of the UK’s largest registered social landlords (RSLs) and owns or manages more than 105,000 homes. The group is based in Worcester and has one of the largest development pipelines of any RSL in the UK and is developing over 15,000 new homes between 2020 […]

  • London & Quadrant

    Last updated 27 July 2022 London & Quadrant Housing Trust The origins of London & Quadrant date back to the foundation in south London in 1963 of Quadrant Housing Association. Six years later, the group merged with the London Housing Trust and has since become a behemoth in the social housing sector with total assets […]

  • Riverside

      Last updated 30 September 2022 Riverside  Riverside started in 1928 as Liverpool Improved Houses and by 1996 had 19,000 homes and was re-named as Riverside. In 1998, the group merged with Leicester Family Housing Association and in 2006 with English Churches Housing Group In December 2021, Riverside formed a partnership with One Housing, which […]

  • Cundall Johnston and Partners LLP

    Last updated 11th May 2023 Cundall Johnston and Partners LLP Cundall is a UK-based gobal, multi-disciplinary engineering and design consultancy that was founded in 1976 and originally based in Edinburgh and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Today, Cundall has six UK offices and also operates from 16 international offices across Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Continental Europe. After […]

  • HOK International

    Last updated 19th April 2023 HOK International HOK International is part of a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm that was founded in the United States in 1955 and has some 23 offices on three continents. In recent years, the firm has ranked highly in the ENR league table of the top 500 design […]

  • Great Portland Estates plc

    Last updated February 9th 2022 Great Portland Estates plc Great Portland Estates is a central London property investment and development company with a portfolio worth £2.5 billion and with 2.6 million sq ft of space much of which is in the West End, north of Oxford St. Its strategy is to deliver superior returns by […]

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