The Subplot | Why the slow and steady Northern real estate market could be a winner

Wain Homes, Ion Property Developments, Cityheart, Placefirst, and Cole Waterhouse are among the firms to have recently added their voices to our calls for a solution to the North’s viability crisis. You can join them.

The BtR developer-operator has signed a forward funding deal with Miller for 98 houses in Eston, Middlesbrough, as it looks to deliver 1,000 a year. 

Businesses from all corners of the built environment sector are throwing their weight behind a campaign to pressure government into providing grant funding to solve the North’s viability crisis. Have you signed up yet? 

The North East and North Yorkshire-based affordable home provider has recruited Caroline Wallace to the post. 

In its push to achieve housing targets, the government wants to lower the cost of CPOs – but will this well-trodden path be effective? Plus: the differing fortunes of speculative offices and data centres.

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Published yesterday, the draft bill sets out Labour’s intention to unshackle the North’s towns and cities. While it has been widely welcomed, leaders across the North are wary of the ‘distraction’ local government reorganisation could cause.

Billed as the ‘biggest transfer of power out of Westminster this century’, the white paper sets out how the government plans to put the destiny of England’s regions in their own hands. 

Mayors will be handed a suite of new powers to allow more decisions on planning, housing, and transport to be made locally, while district councils are to be scrapped as part of deputy prime minister Angela Rayner’s plan to allow towns and cities outside London to “take back control”.