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HBF Weekly News Summary, 23 September 2005

A weekly news summary covering all aspects of the housebuilding industry. Available to members only.

HBF Weekly News Summary, 16 September 2005

A weekly news summary covering all aspects of the housebuilding industry. Available to members only.

HBF Response to latest report from the Campaign for Protection of Rural England

The Home Builders Federation responds to the CPRE report, Your countryside, your choice, released today. Robert Ashmead, Chief Executive of the Home Builders f…

HBF response to latest report from the Campaign for Protection of Rural England

"The HBF challenges the main premise of the report that "a greatly expanded house building programme" is a "severe long term threat to the countryside."

HBF Weekly News Summary, 9 September 2005

A weekly news summary covering all aspects of the housebuilding industry. Available to members only.

Housebuilding 2005 Forum Discussion

New online forums opened for all conference attendees.

HBF Weekly News Summary, 2 September 2005

A weekly news summary covering all aspects of the housebuilding industry. Available to members only.

Building a Crisis; Housing Under-supply in England, by John Stewart, June 2002

This highly influential report, published in 2002, argued that Britain faced a housing crisis because of an under-supply of new housing and examined the social…

HBF Response to Shelter Report

In response to Shelter's report on housing aspirations published today, Alex Hunter, Spokesman for the Home Builders Federation (HBF), says: