Posts Tagged ‘Aston Mead’
Changing affordable housing rules will kill off SME developers, warns Aston Mead
Leading land broker Aston Mead Land & Planning says a change to the rules on affordable housing for smaller sites would have a devastating effect on the very business the Government is trying to support. As the law stands, developments of 10 homes or fewer are excluded from the requirement to provide or contribute to…
Read MoreAston Mead says White Paper “will get Britain building again”
Leading land agents Aston Mead have responded positively to this week’s government’s White Paper on housing – the biggest shake-up of housing policy in two generations. In particular, the company approves of the requirement for councils to set aside land for thousands of homes, under new Government targets to allow large scale construction to take…
Read MoreJV partnerships are the answer to affordable housing, says Aston Mead
Leading land broker Aston Mead is calling for local authorities to set up joint venture partnerships with developers, in order to accelerate the building of affordable homes. Land & Planning Director Adam Hesse suggests that councils offer selected land to developers as part of joint venture partnerships, which would prevent developers having to raise funding…
Read MoreAston Mead hits back at ‘planning pessimists’
Leading land agent Aston Mead has hit back at those who have doubted the ability of the UK to build a million new homes by 2020. The pledge is at the heart of the government’s landmark Housing & Planning Bill, which received Royal Assent earlier this month. However, a recent survey of owners and directors…
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