Place North puts the squeeze on government for viability solution
Hundreds of firms from across the industry have backed our Mind the Gap campaign, which calls for more grant funding to unlock development and growth across the North. You can too.
Wain Homes, Ion Property Developments, Cityheart, Placefirst, and Cole Waterhouse are among the developers to have recently added their voices to our calls for a solution to the North’s viability crisis.
For years, housing providers, developers, and investors have been loud and clear about what needs to be done to tackle the housing crisis. Place North has listened and is taking action.
Sign the campaign
Since the campaign launched, the property industry has responded en masse. Some of the North’s biggest developers, councils, and consultancies have signed up in support of the Mind the Gap campaign by adding their names to the list of signatories.
Alongside Cavendish and Lichfields, we have launched Mind the Gap, a campaign for a government discretionary grant aid programme for the North.
Since the campaign launched, the property industry has responded en masse. Some of the North’s biggest developers, councils, and consultancies have signed up in support of the Mind the Gap campaign by adding their names to the list of signatories.
These include:
CERT Property, Genesis Homes, Placefirst, Turner & Townsend, Cityheart, Cushman & Wakefield, Hill Dickinson, Richborough Estates, Fairhurst Architects, Step Places, Mansell Building Solutions, Caro Developments, Hive Land & Planning, Casey Group, JLL, Persimmon Homes, Sheppard Robson, Chancerygate, Deetu, Alderley Group, BA Commercial, Cassel & Fletcher, Gleeds, Roberts Real Estate, OMD, SCP Investments, Story Homes, Mott MacDonald, Oakmere Homes, Brabners, Walker Sime, BDP, Sigma Capital, SimpsonHaugh, NJL Consulting, CBRE, Jarron Investments, Mosaic Town Planning, Progressive Living, Morgan Sindall Construction, Cole Waterhouse, BXB Land Solutions, MCI Developments, Maro Developments, Kirklees Council, Hull City Council, Savills, DLA Architecture, Layer.studio, Enabl, Manchester City Council, Ollier Smurthwaite Architects, Ion Property Developments, Aecom, Urban Green, NPL Group, Britannia Group, Wain Homes, Torsion Developments, Inacity, Benjamin Property Company, Donald Insall Associates, and many more.
Sign the campaign
Since the campaign launched, the property industry has responded en masse. Some of the North’s biggest developers, councils, and consultancies have signed up in support of the Mind the Gap campaign by adding their names to the list of signatories.
Newly formed design practice Lucid Studio is among the growing list of companies to support the Mind the Gap campaign.
Founder Jaimie Ferguson said: “This vital change would not only close gaps in development viability but also start to address the damaging differences in economic performance and quality of life that are significantly more costly.
“It would be an investment in the people and potential of the North of England, helping to unlock progressive change for the benefit of the whole country.”
Legislation around biodiversity net gain and building safety, as well as the green agenda, the need to deliver affordable housing, and rising build costs are all making development harder.
Labour’s planning reforms are all well and good but in order to really get the North building, significant state intervention to unlock sites and overcome negative land values is required.
We believe that grant support to address viability is the only way the government can hope to achieve its ambitious target of 1.5m homes by the end of the parliament.