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Crisis – what Crisis?
The country remains in the grip of a national housing crisis, fuelled by a lack of housebuilding, a lack of affordable housing funding and building
Raft of planning approvals and allocations paves the way for much needed new homes
It’s been a bumper quarter across the regions for Richborough Estates as planning consent and allocations were granted across the board
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Budget 2018
In the main this year’s Autumn Budget was good news, but unsurprisingly, some of the statements delivered by Philip Hammond raised further questions
Affordable housing saving rural services
The crisis is characterised differently across the country, and that is no exception for rural areas.
Homelessness in Britain in 2017
Homelessness is not inevitable but remains an all too persistent problem in Britain in 2017.
Priced Out? Affordable Housing in England
A number of recommendations are put forward set around a stronger approach to affordable housing at a national level
Government consultation: ‘Planning for the right homes in the right places’
On 9th November Richborough Estates, has submitted a response to the Government’s ‘Planning for the right homes in the right places’ consultation.
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Green light for new homes at Gilmorton, Leicestershire
Richborough Estates has secured planning consent for the delivery of much-needed new family homes in Gilmorton
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Planning consent secured for Richborough Estates’ Bottesford Site
Richborough Estates has secured planning consent for the delivery of a new housing scheme north of Bottesford
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UK residential development land
Housing associations, along with small and medium-sized housebuilders, are providing greater diversity to the traditional range of land buyers.