Hartlepool to rule on contentious housing bid

Publicly listed Hargreaves Services will operate its strategic land division as a separate entity with its own newly appointed senior management team.

How do we design places for the next 100 years? How can we kick-start affordable housing delivery? What should be in Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first Budget? Place North brought together experts from across the residential sector to debate those questions, and more.

Regional authorities will be able to access a £1.5bn lending facility to kick-start local projects from 2028, the government will announce this week.

A pre-development agreement has been signed by the developer and Stockton-on-Tees Council to build out a series of residential sites in the town centre.

The high-profile housebuilder’s Sheepfolds development in Sunderland will create 350 homes, using £27.7m from Homes England, and £10m from the North East Mayor Kim McGuinness. Place North East sat down with Vistry’s regional MD to talk markets, viability and city centre revival.

The Consett-based housebuilder has submitted a detailed planning application to North Tyneside Council to develop 46 houses on disused land next to the Metro station.

Rental homes in the suburbs are hot, high-rise developments in cities are not – and there is a market for stabilised assets but it is shallow and made up of unfamiliar players.

Gavin Barwell, who is the chair of Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation and Theresa May’s former chief of staff, has called for no new rules for developers for three years and wants a firm commitment from government that it will not impose rent controls.

The first 10 terraced houses and eight maisonettes in The Maxim at Vaux will be ready to occupy in early 2027.