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🚨426 New affordable homes approved for TwelveTrees Park in West Ham. 278 homes will be for social rent.

🚨Construction starts on 900 new homes next to Acton tube station. Half of the new homes will be affordable. 📸Some images of what the new homes will look like:

🚨774 new homes planned for Elephant & Castle. This week, Southwark Council will decide on plans for 774 new homes, 79 of which will be for social rent. The plans also include an NHS health centre 🩺

🚨NEW: @MayorofLondon calls in planning application for 283 new homes next to High Barnet Tube Station. 🏘️If approved, the plans will turn the station’s car park into five tower blocks. 100 of the new homes will be affordable.

A new homelessness scheme in Manchester has finished construction. ‘Embassy Village’ will provide 40 homes for rough sleepers beneath railway arches in Castlefield. Residents will have access to a new village hall, a sports area, and mini allotments.

📸452 Council homes built by the Royal Borough of Greenwich. In addition to new council homes, Kidbrooke Park Road North delivered a nursery, newly planted trees and a play area.

🚨 136 new council homes coming to Hackney. The new homes will be built in Hoxton and Haggerston on land currently being used by garages, storage units and bin cupboards. Source: www.london-now.co.uk... Join our newsletter: yimbyalliance.org/ge...

🚨The Hammersmith Civic Campus is set to open later this month. 🏘️204 homes, over half of which are affordable, have already been built as part of this plan. The site will also deliver a new cinema, art gallery and refurbished town hall. Before vs during vs after👇 www.mylondon.news/ne...

The number of new homes built in London has fallen to a historic low. A new piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com finds that London has become an outlier in the developed world, as the cost of building new homes continues to soar above construction inflation. www.ft.com/content/05fa...

🏘️ Plans revealed to turn a former sports club in South London into 258 new homes. The 5.4 acre site has been unused since 1998. www.mylondon.news/ne...

🚨2,000 new homes for Elland Road, Leeds Next week, plans to deliver a mixed-use neighbourhood on 30 acres of council-owned land around the Leeds United stadium will go to Leeds City Council. The neighbourhood is also set to receive a tram link into the city centre 🚉 news.leeds.gov.uk/ne...

NEW: Solihull shopping centre will be demolished to make way for 🏘️1,600 new homes, 🏨hotels, and 🛍️new shops. Planners approved the renewal of the town centre last week. Here’s how the town centre will change👇

🚨Bristol’s tallest tower approved for construction. The 28-storey and 18-storey towers will add 442 homes for students and 150 co-living units. The homes are expected to be completed in 2028.

🚨Former Birmingham factory to be retrofitted and transformed into 215 new homes. Birmingham City Council has approved plans to turn the ageing building into a 12-storey tower.

🚨Barnet Council approves resident-backed plans for 463 homes. The renewal of the Grahame Park Estate will deliver: ⚖️45% affordable housing 🏘️171 homes for social rent ♿10% of homes with wheelchair access 🏞️114 new trees 🛝A play area

🚨Barts Health NHS Trust have submitted plans for 500 new homes alongside a new sciences campus. The plans are set to deliver: 🏘️Key worker housing 🔬Science and health research facilities ♻️Renewed terraces 👷1,300 jobs

🚨656 homes across four towers coming to Liverpool. Liverpool is one of the UK’s most affordable cities, and has recently announced plans to build 64,000 new homes.

🚨401 new homes and 350,000 sq ft of office space spread across 🏙️6 towers (ranging from 8-30 storeys) are coming to King’s Cross. The new sites will deliver: ⚖️50% affordable housing 👷1,000 job & training opportunities 🤝Community infrastructure 🔬High tech industrial space

🚨Map by @MayorofLondon The London Building Stock Model contains detailed data on every building in Greater London. It includes 3D information about building heights, energy efficiency and much more. London building heights visualised 🗺️👇

🚨Hayes Town Estate renewal project 🏚️The old estate will be demolished and turned into 🏘️ 740 homes – half of which will be affordable. There will be a net gain of 80 EXTRA homes. Before and after of Avondale Drive 👇

🚨16 studio bungalows to be turned into 21 family sized affordable homes in Hillingdon. The renewal will also deliver 🏞️new open space and 🛝a new children’s play area. Before VS after 👇

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Grey belt news 🚨 Up to 120 new homes in Buckinghamshire have been approved under the Government’s new grey belt rules, after they were initially dismissed due to green belt concerns. www.theplanner.co.uk...

🏘️ Construction starts on 82 flats for social rent near the Etihad Stadium in Manchester! This comes as part of a wider plan to renew the Grey Mare Lane neighbourhood, which will deliver 🏡1,000 new homes and 🏞️new green spaces. 🚨Before vs after

🚨Plans submitted for 75 new homes in Hemel Hempstead The site will deliver a mix of tenures, including discounted homes for first-time buyers, as well as social and affordable rent.

Can we help older people be truly YIMBY? 🏡 One way we can free up family homes is by letting older homeowners build their own residential annexes in their back gardens.

🚨 Our new tracker shows for the FIRST TIME that since Manchester started to build more and more new homes, housing costs are now decreasing. Building more homes where needed is a win for the cost of living and a win for families.

🚆🏘️294 well-connected homes next to a railway station planned for South London. On Thursday, Merton Council will decide on plans to redevelop the industrial estate right next to Raynes Park station, which include: 🏠Flats and townhouses between 5-8 storeys ⛲New Courtyards 🚶Public walkways

NEW: Cambridge Council plans to build 134 new homes. The renewal of the Ekin Road estate will deliver: 🏡78 new council homes 🏘️ A mix of one-to-five bedroom homes 🛝New play areas for children Before vs after👇

🚨London Mayor approves the NEW West London Orbital - but how should it be funded? London has already proven it can fund its own transport investment. The Northern Line Extension was financed by building more homes and taxing the developers. 🚆Old Oak Common can do the same!

🚨1,685 NEW HOMES in Docklands receive planning permission. The Newham community on an industrial brownfield site will deliver: 🏞️A new riverside park 🏘️173 homes for social rent 📚A new primary school 🤝Retail and community spaces. Before + after…

Did you know that London’s Grosvenor Square will be transformed into a woodland garden by summer 2026❓🏞️ The Square was first established in the 1720s, and was the home of the US Embassy until its relocation to Nine Elms in 2017. Now, it’ll be a NEW GREEN SPACE 🌱

High living costs are driving young people OUT of Britain. We urgently need to make housing more affordable to stop more young people leaving!

Excellent work to map rents/sqm. I find it particularly interesting how much more expensive 1-beds in London are per sqm than 3-beds (presumably driving up demand for HMOs) - but not in Wandsworth or Tower Hamlets, which have been building a lot recently

As a Christmas present to renters, we’ve build a new public zoomable map of rents per square metres in England and Wales! Have fun browsing and please share: yimbyalliance.org/2025/12/18/h...

NEW: Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has just announced the BIGGEST EVER reforms to national policy to deliver more homes! Here are the five biggest: 🧵

At next week’s budget, the Chancellor is set to give the go-ahead to extend the DLR to Thamesmead. 🚆The DLR extension will enable 25,000 new, well-connected homes. Take a look at the Thamesmead Riverside, a disused brownfield site where many new homes will be built.

Lambeth Council in partnership with Pocket Living will build 92 new homes near Streatham Hill station. 50% of the new homes will be a mix of affordable tenures including 15 social rent homes.

Planning news: Newham council has approved a new 31-storey student housing tower on Stratford High Street in East London, with 35% of flats at affordable rents.

Rent growth in Bend, Oregon fell from 8% in 2021 to just 0.3% today. Why? The city built 1,000 apartments this year - the most in its history. Building more homes reduces rents!

Ballymore and Sainsbury’s have been granted planning for a £3 billion, 2,500-home canalside neighbourhood in Ladbroke Grove, West London. The 19-acre brownfield site – much of which has been vacant for FORTY years – will now contain shops, green space and 500 affordable homes.

A project to restore a *miniature railway* in a seaside village has been CANCELLED due to planning difficulties. The project’s leader has been left with a ‘broken heart’ after his 400m railway plans were prevented.

Today, house prices have hit a record high. The average home now costs £299,862 – that’s eight times the median annual salary. This means that Britain's homes have become 30% more expensive in the space of seven years 👇

California approved 100,000+ new homes in under 10 years with a massive 81% of the public on-side. How? Here are four graphics on why back garden granny flats (AKA ADUs or residential annexes) are so effective AND popular 👇

News: TWO THIRDS of all Londoners between the ages of 25 and 45 are borrowing to cover housing costs.

Lewisham Council has approved plans to transform an ageing shopping centre into 1,700 high-rise homes. The revamp will also build a new town centre, community facilities and urban green spaces. Here's the before versus after 👇

TODAY: an interesting example of how to add more homes in London. New homes on a former car park in Abbey Wood – but why not three-storey terraces?

CONFIRMED: a retail park in Salford will be transformed into a new community of 3,300 homes. The community will provide 660 affordable homes, alongside vital local infrastructure including a space for GPs and dentists.

The Mayor of the West Midlands has announced £40 million for the Social Housing Accelerator Fund. This is in light of a change in government policy that empowers the Mayor to fund the building of new homes.