I’m surprised to see Larry Elliott (How to turn the UK’s ‘generation rent’ into ‘generation buy’, 7 February) pointing to “tough green belt regulations” and “local planning rules” as villains in the housing affordability equation, because, as he has previously said, the housing market isn’t a market at all in the traditional supply-and-demand sense. Developers…
Across the country, leaseholders awaited Robert Jenrick’s solution to the building safety crisis with hope. For those in buildings more than 18 metres tall with combustible cladding yet to be fixed, the news of £3.5bn in new grant funding was welcome. But for hundreds of thousands of others in unsellable homes in lower-rise blocks with…
The housebuilder Persimmon has set aside £75m to pay for any work needed to remove cladding on its high-rise buildings after a review of its past developments. The developer is mostly known for constructing family homes but has identified 26 multistorey buildings it constructed that have cladding that may need to be removed. The company’s…
Most companies spout pious slogans about their customer commitment. The pandemic has exposed which ones really mean it. This column ordinarily broadcasts the failures, but when we emerge from captivity, it’s the good guys we need to hear about, so we know where to entrust our custom. Some of you have written in to laud…
Hundreds of former Arcadia staff are lining up to claim compensation after being made redundant following the collapse of Sir Philip Green’s fashion empire. Two no-win no-fee legal firms say they have already gathered almost 200 potential claimants who they say may not have been properly consulted before losing their jobs. Aticus Law has at…
News that an increasing number of Tui customers have been booking summer holidays may be something of a surprise, given that ministers have repeatedly warned that travel abroad this summer is very much in the balance. Yesterday Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, the deputy chief medical officer for England, said it was too early to say whether…
