The Government has abandoned the pre-2010 policy of trying to encourage house building through regional house building targets and instead house building is being encouraged through the New Homes Bonus, allowing the local authority to retain revenue from the council tax of new houses for six years.
The Government published the final version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in March stressing the need to encourage housebuilding but retaining the need for planning authorities to provide enough land for a rolling five years supply whilst adding the new requirement of an extra 5% "to ensure choice and competition in the market for land".
Although research in June 2011 suggested a major reduction in housing targets, especially in the South East And South West, here at JMS we certainly seem to be bucking the trend with the appointment for the design of the roads, drainage, foundations and superstructure on over 500 housing plots in June alone.
Planning has finally been achieved for the new hotel in Cambridge in which we carried out the preliminary designs at the beginning of the year. This hotel incorporates a large underground car-park and a concrete podium first floor deck with timber framing over. Due to the client's timetable, the design is being shared between our Midlands and Anglia office. This is the third hotel undertaken for this client with the first up to podium level in Ipswich and the Winchester project ready for tender.
Work load in the London sector is expanding faster than ever with a wide variety of work including three Synagogues, two mosques, refurbishment of the Muslim World League HQ building, new students bar for Anglian Ruskin University, two £5m+ houses in Hampstead Heath, apartment blocks, house extensions.....
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