Houses can be built on floodplains despite failing safety test, says high court
Decision to allow development of 190 new homes in north Somerset sparks campaign for change in the lawHouses can be built on floodplains even if they fail a crucial safety test, according to a high court judgment that will be of “immense interest” to…
Eviction of 87-year-old puts Spain’s deepening housing crisis in the spotlight
Images of Maricarmen Abascal being forcibly removed from her home sparked protests and a reckoning over the country’s soaring real estate marketImages of an octogenarian being evicted from the home she had lived in for seven decades on a stretcher,…
Berlin’s new political star is offering something all of Europe needs – hope and housing | Fatma Aydemir
Elif Eralp wants lower rents and more public housing. It’s not rocket science but mainstream parties still don’t get why they are failingHope is a fragile thing. You can only hold on to it as long as you find reasons to believe tomorrow can be better. A…
Vistry is the laggard in a housebuilding sector full of cracks | Nils Pratley
Group shrinks ambitions from 20,000 to just 12,000 homes a year in an attempt to balance the booksThe entire housebuilding sector is in a funk, grumbling about energy prices, the cost of labour, regulation, planning delays, taxes and more, but few have…
Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain
The new prime minister has declared he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But is he really prepared to be that radical?In May 2025, when Keir Starmer was still prime minister, Labour politicians, campaigners and journalists gathered at the Ministry…
Farewell, nimbys of Piddington… | Letters
Readers respond to the news that an Oxfordshire village has voted to leave the UK over plans to house asylum seekers nearbySo the people of Piddington have spoken – an overwhelming majority want to leave the UK (English village votes to leave UK in…