The proposal for ‘Starmerville’, a tech city between Oxford and Cambridge, is foolish nostalgia and fails on all fronts| www.thetimes.com
£350 million invested to increase number of affordable and social homes, support homeownership and ease council housing pressures| GOV.UK
Hundreds of thousands of working people and families will reap the rewards new towns across Britain, as the Prime Minister paves the way for the largest housebuilding programme since the post-war era.| GOV.UK
The prime minister was speaking to workers at a building site when a group of farmers in tractors blasting their horns turned up.| Sky News
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. After a relentless week of grim international news, it’s good to have something to celebrate on the domestic and housing front. Until the sp…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. A final verdict will have to wait for the spending review in the Spring but how should we assess the first Labour Budget for 14 years? The answer …| Jules Birch
Writer and editor, mostly about housing and social policy. Blogger at Inside Housing. Ageing footballer| Jules Birch