Home Builders Federation

“Strategic planning across sub-regions or counties is one of the most important tools that local authorities can use to support housing delivery in their areas.” 🖊 Mark Behrendt, our Planning Manager, makes the case for joined up strategic planning at a larger scale across defined sub regions or countries. 📄👉 https://lnkd.in/eUyv7MK4

We conducted a Freedom for Information exercise to examine the additional nitrate loading limits being granted by the Environment Agency in Nutrient Vulnerable Zones. 📋 🚜 Here’s what we found 👇 https://lnkd.in/esRPvZ-A #NutrientNeutrality

“While planning may be one of the biggest challenges facing home builders, it is not the only challenge. And we cannot afford to develop tunnel vision if we are to deliver the new homes, communities and economic growth that this country so desperately needs.”  🖊️ Emma R., Director of External Affairs

Familiarise yourself with the basics of the small site metric with our latest BNG webinar  📽️🍃👉 https://lnkd.in/e94icadd 

We spoke to Dame Kate Barker at the 2024 HBF Policy Conference We need to think about 👇 1️⃣ Planning beyond local authorities 2️⃣ Planning for the numbers #HBFPolicy24

🐄 🐑 Farms are licensed to spread up to 170kg of nitrogen per hectare through livestock manure... ...but the Environment Agency can grant an extension of this limit up to 250kg of nitrogen per hectare. 📈 In 2023, 1.1 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬 of additional nitrogen was licensed on top of the legal limit. Examine the research in full 👉 https://lnkd.in/esRPvZ-A

"We need more of all types and tenures of homes." 📈 🏠 🗣️ Steve Turner, Executive Director at HBF, speaking to Sky News on the delivery of affordable and private housing.

Government has announced the launch of Skills England, a new arms-length body that will bring partners in the skills landscape together and hold responsibility for maintaining a list of levy-eligible training. Phases of Skills England’s launch include… 👉 Setting up the organisation in shadow form within the DfE to start work on an assessment of future skills needs. 👉 Appointing a permanent board, Chair and CEO. 👉 Bringing forward a strategy for post-16 education. 👉 Transferring skills training from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education to Skills England.   Find out more in our member briefing 📖 👉 https://lnkd.in/emDUBGPy

Who is going to build the homes we’re planning for? 🏗️ 🏘️  The home building industry’s skills shortage is the result of…  👉 A severe loss of skills during the Global Financial Crisis   40% to 50% of skilled labour is estimated to have left the industry during this period 👉 An ageing workforce  25% of the homebuilding workforce is over 50, so we face an impending retirement cliff edge 👉 A shortfall in the number of new recruits entering the system   Approximately 25% of the 100,000 completing construction college courses go on to directly enter to industry We and our members have been taking steps to help develop the industry’s talent pipeline, but the scale of the challenge is huge…  It is estimated that for every 10,000 new homes built, 30,000 new recruits are needed across 12 key occupations. Emma R., our Director of External Affairs, examines the challenges the new Government must work with the home building industry to address if it is to achieve its ambitious housing targets. 🏘️🎯  👉 https://lnkd.in/e2GXwjMZ

In the King’s Speech, Government has announced its plans for a Skills England Bill to ensure the country has the highly trained workforce it needs. 👷🔨🧱 The Bill aims to… 🔹 Transfer functions from Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education to Skills England. 🔹 Support economic growth by greater coherence to the assessment of skills needs and training landscape. 🔹 Ensure training programmes are well designed and delivered to meet business needs. 🔹 Ensure regional and national skills systems are providing the skilled workforce needed. Measures include 👇 1️⃣ Developing a single picture of current and future skills needs at a national and local level with industry, the Migration Advisory Committee, unions and the Industrial Strategy Council. 2️⃣ Identifying training eligible for the Growth and Skills Levy. 3️⃣ Using local and regional vacancy data to ensure systems are meeting skills needs. 4️⃣ Engaging with MCAs and other key stakeholders to identify skills system issues to develop a more coherent system. For more detail on Planning and Infrastructure Bill and other policies announced, read our member briefing. 👉 https://lnkd.in/ecMCG4B3