Homes England to help speed up the delivery of new homes

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Nicky Godding

Homes England, the Government's new housing delivery organisation which is taking a more commercial approach to respond to the UK's long term housing challenges, is to broaden the range of technical and design services available to accelerate the supply of new homes.

The new frameworks will provide direct access to professional, technical and design services to help prepare land for housing development and disposal in the market more quickly and meet the government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 homes a year by the middle of the next decade.

Read our in-depth feature on the region's housebuilding in the May 2018 issue of Business & Innovation Magazine.

Stephen Kinsella, Director for Land at Homes England said: “This will be the fifth generation of our multidisciplinary framework and our biggest yet, demonstrating Homes England’s expanded role in bringing together land and expertise to speed up the building of new homes.

“We want to create strong working relationships with a wider range of companies who can provide valuable technical advice and design expertise to help accelerate housing development, deliver value for money and great places to live.”

Valued at £150 million, the new frameworks with replace Homes England’s current framework that expires in November 2018.

Homes England will make the frameworks available to other public sector bodies, for example local authorities, to help them procure specialist technical services and develop homes for their residents. Our frameworks have been used by over 300 other public bodies.

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.