Housing

25 March 2025

Addressing housing sector challenges

Levitt Bernstein’s Jo McCafferty highlights key takeaways from the NLA Expert Housing Panel’s first 2025 meeting, addressing housing affordability and regeneration.

Housing

20 March 2025

Can this year be the turning point for housing delivery?

Freya Turtle, Director at Turley, reflects on behalf of the NLA Housing Expert Panel on the 2025 Housing Summit, discussing challenges, funding, and a hopeful outlook for housing delivery.

Housing

11 March 2025

Housing Roadmap for Public Private Partnerships

Explore how NLA and AtkinsRéalis brought together influential public and private leaders in a roundtable to explore how partnerships can tackle housing delivery and wider regeneration.

Housing

04 February 2025

Finish Tax Reform to Drive Investment into New Brownfield Homes

Andrew White, Head of Public Affairs at Berkeley Group, discusses the need for tax reform to unlock investment for New brownfield housing and tackle the UK housing crisis.

Culture, Education & Health, Housing, Industrial & Logistics, Net Zero, Planning, Technical, Transport & Infrastructure, Work

14 January 2025

Expert Panels 2024 Summaries

As we kick off 2025 Expert Panels, panel chairs share summaries, recommendations, reflections and key findings from across the 2024 meetings, visits and debates.

Housing

06 January 2025

Can housing in UK cities become genuinely affordable?

Greg Clark, Senior Advisor at NLA, highlights the housing challenges in UK cities, emphasising systemic failures, collaborative solutions, and transformational opportunities.

Housing

03 December 2024

Location, location, location: the ultimate amenity

Damien Sharkey, Managing Director of HUB presents Build to Rent as a solution both to the creation of new homes, and to stimulating urban regeneration across cities like London.

Housing

22 October 2024

Barking Riverside set to deliver 20,000 new homes

Matthew Carpen, Managing Director at Barking Riverside, discusses their growth to 20,000 homes, aligning with the Government’s goal for thousands of much-needed new homes.

Housing

10 September 2024

Are ‘New Towns’ the Solution to the U.K. Housing Crisis?

Ian Mulcahey, Global Director of Cities at Gensler, questions how New Garden Cities can solve the U.K. housing crisis without destroying our natural countryside.

Housing

11 June 2024

How can we build more council homes in London? 

Karen Sullivan, Director of Planning and Development at Islington Council, highlights the housing crisis in London and the need for radical reform, citing barriers such as lack of space.

Housing

26 February 2024

Housing, young people, and a war on ‘grot’

David Taylor reports from our latest Sounding Board meeting and their hopes for resolving London's key issues from national government and the Mayor of London.

Housing

26 February 2024

Demand and delivery

Julian Gitsham, Principal, Sector Leader Education & Science at Hassell reflects on our recent talk on the demand and delivery of Purpose Built Student Accommodation.

Housing

08 February 2024

Living London Life

As the new cycle of the Housing Expert Panel kicks off, Jo McCafferty of Levitt Bernstein reflects on the first session launching the theme of study for the next year.

Housing

01 December 2023

‘Lifestyle’ Carbon – Are carbon calculations lulling us into a false sense of security?

Marc Seligmann, Head of Sustainability at Maccreanor Lavington reflects on the sustainability session from our latest Housing Summit, exploring key themes surrounding lifestyle carbon.

Housing

25 October 2023

Reform to perform

Carl Vann, Partner at Pollard Thomas Edwards shares his viewpoint from our 'Housing Londoners' report, exploring innovation as the key to solving the capital's housing crisis.

Housing

23 October 2023

Modular construction

Gary McLuskey Managing Director of Global Design at Greystar shares his viewpoint from our Housing Londoners report, exploring the importance of modular construction.

Housing

16 October 2023

London’s Housing Challenge: Innovation in Delivery and Design

Selasi Setufe, Senior Architect at Be First shares her viewpoint from our Housing Londoners report, exploring positive and successful innovations in the delivery of housing.

Housing

09 October 2023

Housing for all

Kathryn Tombling, Principal and Head of Housing at BDP shares her viewpoint from our Housing Londoners report, exploring design innovation for sustainable, progressive homes.

Housing

03 October 2023

Can MMC help us deliver our low carbon homes?

Alison Crompton, Regional Director at AECOM shares her viewpoint from our Housing Londoners report, exploring the importance of MMC in delivering low-carbon homes.

Housing

03 October 2023

Housing Londoners: collective change

Grace Simmonds, Head of Learning & Engagement at NLA reflects on our ‘Housing Londoners: innovation in delivery and design’ report launch, analysing London’s housing challenge.

Housing

25 September 2023

Flourish and thrive

Housing delivery isn’t just about numbers, but ensuring that design provides places where people can not only live, but flourish and thrive, Alice Hawkins of Turley shares her viewpoint.

Housing

25 September 2023

London’s housing challenge

Simon Bayliss of HTA Design shares his viewpoint from our Housing Londoners report, exploring standard housing typologies designed to the highest quality and delivered in half the time.

Housing

25 July 2023

Who lives in build-to-rent?

London faces a chronic shortage of housing, and the capital needs 66,000 homes per year to meet demand, Business LDN reflects on their latest report on the build-to-rent market.

Housing

30 May 2023

People, Place, Planet

The third meeting of the Housing Expert Panel was held at Montegu Evans offices on the twelfth storey of 70 St Mary Axe, Carl Vann of Pollard Thomas Edwards reports.

Housing

22 May 2023

Providing Shelter: Designing out homelessness

Miranda MacLaren, Director at Morris+Company, summarises the key discussion points and findings from our recent Designing Out of Homelessness webinar.

Housing

21 March 2023

Delivering Affordable Housing

Steve Partridge of Savills reflects on our latest webinar discussing the current industry outlook and features projects that highlight best practice across London.

Housing

16 February 2023

Housing Expert Panel

Oliver Maury of Montagu Evans reports from the latest Housing Expert Panel meeting, established to inform the New London Agenda where the panel’s roundtable discussion reflected on three key interlink...

Housing

25 October 2022

Five Minutes with... Alex Flint

David Taylor catches up with shedkm director Alex Flint to talk about off-site construction and affordable housing in Greenwich.

Housing

24 October 2022

People, Place and Planet: The Future of London's Housing

The first meeting of the 2022 Housing Panel brought together diverse and cross-disciplinary experts, Carl Vann from Pollard Thomas Edwards reports.

Housing

10 October 2022

LREF 2022 – the main takeaways

Dieter Kleiner reflects on the return of The London Real Estate Forum and shares his main takeaways from the two-day event.

Housing

26 September 2022

A year in summary: Housing

As we wrap up the latest cycle of NLA Expert Panels, Jo McCafferty summarises strategic areas from the Housing Expert Panel that they will take forward into the next cycle.

Housing

21 September 2022

Innovative Infill

Melissa Dowler, Director, Bell Phillips Architects, reflects on our recent webinar discussing innovative ‘infill’ interventions that respond to difficult, underutilised spaces in built-up contexts.

Housing

06 September 2022

An inquiry into the future of the suburbs

The Suburban Taskforce presents a report that reviews the current estate of the English suburbs and includes recommendations which focus on the ways our suburbs are understood and to ensure that the c...

Housing

09 August 2022

Invest in planning and infrastructure to unlock housing, government urged

NLA expert panel chairs suggest a range of priorities for London for new ministers to consider as part of New London Agenda.

Housing

05 July 2022

Housing Expert Panel

Carl Vann from Pollard Thomas Edwards reports on the latest meeting of NLA's Expert Panel on Housing.

Housing

14 March 2022

Housing Expert Panel focuses on eligibility, engagement and transparency

John Lewis, Executive Director for Thamesmead at Peadbody, reports from the latest meeting of the NLA Expert Panel on Housing

Housing

06 January 2022

How to deal with the impact of inflation on the housing cross-subsidy delivery model

Nick Cuff of Pocket Living writes for NLA on the impact of inflation on the housing cross-subsidy delivery model.

Housing

15 December 2021

Reflections on the NLA Housing Summit

Jo McCafferty, Director at Levitt Bernstein and NLA Expert Panel on Housing chair, reflects on the critical issues affecting the housing sector following the NLA Housing Summit.

Housing

14 December 2021

Unlocking sites for affordable housing

Samantha Wells of Gerald Eve reports from the latest NLA Housing Think Tank.

Housing

30 November 2021

Delivering Quality Homes Handbook

Claire Bennie reports from the NLA Housing Summit, where she launched The Delivering Quality Homes Handbook.

Housing

27 October 2021

Empowerment, choice and stewardship key to successful regeneration, NLA Expert Panel on Housing finds

Jo McCafferty of Levitt Bernstein reports from the inaugural meeting of the new NLA Expert Panel on Housing.

Housing

27 September 2021

Five minutes...with Josie Parsons, CEO, Local Space

David Taylor meets Josie Parsons, chief executive of Local Space to hear about the organisation’s work on providing high quality temporary – or ‘settled’ – accommodation for the homeless to try to ste...

Housing

12 July 2021

NLA Expert Panel on Housing

Are we sure high rise buildings best serve Londoners, and London itself, was the theme underlying the NLA Expert Housing Panel’s fourth and final session.

Housing

01 July 2021

Housing the key mayoral priority – sounding board

NLA Sounding Board grapples with housing crisis and mayoral priorities in latest session

Housing

21 June 2021

Wellbeing at risk when converting shops into flats

Architects and specifiers must champion a healthy approach to M&E solutions when converting shops into flats, writes REHAU's Steve Richmond.

Housing

28 May 2021

Five minutes with...Nenad Manasijevic

David Taylor catches up with tp bennett director Nenad Manasijevic to talk about co-living here and abroad, student accommodation and space standards. Should planning play catch-up?

Housing

28 May 2021

Later living projects embrace more public interfaces

Designers of senior housing schemes and care homes are looking to create more public spaces in inner city locations in a bid to recognise the positive effects old people have on their communities

Housing

28 May 2021

Formation Architects and Co-Location

What value does industry provide in an urban setting? Should much-needed residential development trump the retention of large swathes of low-density industry?

Housing

11 May 2021

Passivhaus – An achievable solution for local authorities to meet their sustainability and housing targets?

With the government committed to reaching ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and more than two thirds of councils declaring a climate emergency, local authorities are facing a challenge – how...

Housing

11 May 2021

Banks hold the key to unlock MMC

Key thinkers in Modern Methods of Construction set out their wish list for new taskforce to ease financial ‘inhibitors’ and boost housebuilding.

Housing

01 April 2021

Building sustainable housing affordably: NLA Expert Panel on Housing

The theme of the third meeting of the NLA Expert Panel on Housing was to prompt a discussion on the design and technical aspects of building sustainable housing affordably.

Housing

19 March 2021

How we set intermediate rent levels in a market where rents in cities appear to be tumbling

Olivia Harris, CEO of housing charity Dolphin Living, discusses the process and challenges of setting discounted rents in a London market where rents appear to be falling due to the demand shock of th...

Housing

04 March 2021

Small sites seek planning boost

Small sites need a more ‘proportionate’ planning system to speed these complex projects through to delivery, experts argue.

Housing

14 January 2021

Delivering affordable – quality – housing

A group of housing specialists presented their thoughts on how we can deliver more – and better – affordable housing this week against a backdrop of Covid-19 highlighting the sector’s crucial contribu...

Housing

14 January 2021

NLA Expert Panel on Housing submit response to ‘Good Quality Homes for all Londoners’ consultation

NLA Expert Panel on Housing, chaired by Jo McCafferty, Director at Levitt Bernstein, have submitted a comprehensive and thoughtful response to the ‘Good Quality Homes for all Londoners’ SPG survey.

Housing

26 November 2020

NLA Expert Panel on Housing

Last week saw the second meeting of the NLA Expert Panel on Housing. The group undertook a review of the Mayor’s ‘Good Quality Homes for All Londoners’ SPG which is currently published in draft format...

Housing

16 November 2020

Rightsizer

In response to two growing crises in London, the decline of the traditional high street and how to accommodate an ageing population whilst reducing loneliness and isolation, Rory O'Hagan, Director at...

Housing

05 November 2020

London faces intergenerational housing shortfall

London is in urgent need of intergenerational housing to cope with an ageing population, the planning system needs an overhaul to accommodate that - but new models and investors are emerging which may...

Housing

27 October 2020

The design balancing act: residential developments post-Covid

Stephen Workman, Associate Director, Atkins, argues that this time, which is requiring a reassessment of 'home; should be seen as an opportunity to think about how we design homes for the future and...

Housing

13 October 2020

Homes England and small sites in the Sounding Board frame

Homes England needs to be ‘big picture’ and ‘big delivery’ in the next phase of its development under its new chairman, Peter Freeman. But viability and affordability remain a major block on the devel...

Housing

17 September 2020

Housing associations experience ‘quantum leap’ over lockdown

Housing associations have grasped the opportunity presented by lockdown to make ‘quantum leaps’ in the way they work with their residents using digital and other means. That was the key take-away from...

Housing

20 August 2020

Six Londonwide housing hurdles

A recalibration in the sector to ensure the quality, accessibility and resilience of all homes we are designing and building today, for tomorrow.

Housing

19 August 2020

PRP produces housing communities of the future model

PRP has delved into data from the 1990s to the present day to inform the housing estate of the future. The practice has published Estate-Regeneration: Learning from the Past, Housing Communities of th...

Housing

11 June 2020

Use redundant buildings for the homeless, says Architects Aware

Think Tank Architects Aware is urging that London seizes the initiative of its lockdown temporary solution to the homeless crisis allowing rough sleepers into hotels, by using quality redundant buildi...

Housing

22 May 2020

Housing set for ‘London lift off’ - NLA Sounding Board

The housing market is showing clear signs of a ‘London lift-off’, members of the NLA’s Sounding Board reported this week.