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Housebuilder HbD & Developer October 2015 Housing and Jeremy Corbyn Will skill shortages hinder housing sector recovery? St Clements Housebuilding is ‘key Heights player’ in government’s A 90,000 sq ft Crest Nicholson development comprising of 46 apartments/townhouses for desire to deliver more private sale, which will finance 50 new homes Almshouse units for elderly residents Features in this issue Show previews Plus the latest Boilers & Cylinders Greenbuild Expo news, events and Fires & Fireplaces Homes products Glass & Glazing Groundworks & Sewage Treatment Kitchens & Appliances Social Housing Supplement Timber & Joinery Sustainable Housebuilding www.hbdonline.co.uk Reader Enquiry 401 Contents HbD October 2015 HEADLINES 24 Hot water storage systems – the devil is in the detail 7 New home levels continue Trevor Cross, specification sales director at Kingspan to rise despite August dip Environmental says, the devil is in the detail when it comes to Right to Buy creates nearly comparing the quality and performance of unvented hot 13 water cylinders 40,000 new homeowners 13 Construction companies urged to invest in 43 Warming to gas fire installations graduates Matt Kisler, from luxury gas fire specialists Faber, considers the advantages provided by bespoke installations when installing a focal ALSO IN THIS ISSUE... point gas fire in new homes Industry news 4 - 22 Events 15 Industry Movers 22 Editor’s Focus 41 47 How will Building Regulation part Q Greenbuild Expo Show Preview 30 affect glass and glazing Homes Show Preview 27 Sustainable Housebuilding Lynne Darwin, sales director of window manufacturer, Building Supplement 31 - 40 Product Solutions, looks at part Q of the Building Regs coming into force from October 2015 PRODUCTS Bathrooms & Wetrooms........................21 - 24 Appointments & News...................................23 Air Conditioning & Ventilation..........23 - 24 51 Below ground drainage for housing Boilers & Cylinders.................................24 - 26 projects – getting it right Building Products & Services........................26 The correct planning and design of effective drainage is an essential Homes Show Preview.............................26 - 29 part of every housing development project. Terry Hill, technical Greenbuild Expo Show Preview...........30 - 32 support manager at water management specialists JDP, explains more Doors, Windows & Conservatories...3 2 - 45 Fires & Fireplaces.....................................42 - 44 Glass & Glazing....................................46 - 50 Groundworks & Sewage Treatment...51 - 53 54 Kitchen appliances can Heating & Renewable Energy.......................56 sell homes Kitchens & Appliances..........................54 - 56 Landscaping & External Finishes.................57 Tim Spann, brand manager at Teka UK, explains why the clever use Pools & Spas.......................................................57 of kitchen appliances is so important to today’s homebuyers Roofing.......................................................57 - 58 Smoke & Fire Protection................................58 Social Housing..........................................58 - 61 Timber & Joinery.....................................61 - 65 Stairs, Balustrades & Balconies.....................65 59 The role of security in social housing Vivienne Taylor, specifications manager for Yale Door and Classified & Directory..........................66 - 67 Window Solutions, considers social attitudes surrounding mixed- tenure housing, and the impact that has on security design and decision-making Housebuilder HbD & Developer October 2015 63 Specifying timber for your Housing and project’s exterior Jeremy Corbyn Green light for 90,000 sq ft Will skill shortages hinder housing sector recovery? St Clements Sydenham Hill housing Heights Nick Taylor of Silva Timber Products Ltd discusses the versatile Housebuilding is ‘key player’ in government's A 90,000 sq 0 Christ Nicholson development scheme comprising of 46 apartments/townhouses for desire to deliver more private sale, which will /nance 50 new nature of wood, and how to choose the perfect species of timber homes Almshouse units for elderly residents © Sanders.Shiers Features in this issue Show previews Plus the latest Boilers & Cylinders Greenbuild Expo news, events and Fires & Fireplaces Homes products For more information go to Glass & Glazing Groundworks & Sewage Treatment Kitchens & Appliances Supplement for your project’s exterior Social Housing Timber & Joinery Sustainable Housebuilding www.hbdonline.co.uk page 10 4 industry news BUILDING FOR GROWTH HbD Editor’s Skills and planning system hinder letter housing recovery Cointronic House, Station Road, David Mote, Heathfield, East Sussex TN21 8DF editor of Advertising & Housebuilder Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking Head administration of Housebuilders, Alasdair Gardner Tel: 01435 863500 & Developer Fax: 01435 863897 [email protected] ccording to research from Lloyds Bank the severe www.hbdonline.co.uk skills shortage and current planning system are Editorial features hindering efforts to solve the housing crisis. Tel: 01435 863500 A In ‘Building for Growth’, the bank surveyed a broad Fax: 01435 863897 As we went to print the [email protected] spectrum of housebuilders and found that 46 per cent said country’s changed political that slow planning decisions were a hurdle to resolving the Press Releases landscape was confirmed as the housing shortage, 42 per cent cited public opposition to [email protected] development and 25 per cent felt a lack of skilled workers Sales Director/Publisher: new Labour leadership was a real barrier. Lesley Mayo addressed their conference in A quarter of survey participants said the skills gap News Editor: was the ‘biggest broader challenge currently facing David Mote Brighton. It is too early to see their business’, and 35 per cent believed that there was Editorial & how housing will sit in Jeremy also a shortage of suitable candidates to fill new and Production Assistants: Corbyn’s ‘must do list’ but it existing jobs. Roseanne Field; When participants were asked to describe one change Jack Wooler was heartening to see that they would support that could ease the housing crisis, 23 Senior Sales Executive: housing formed a key part of per cent chose greater local authority support to promote Sheehan Moir-Edmonds his pitch to Labour members and fund building projects. The same percentage wanted Display Sales: additional government support. Nathan Hunt and supporters, and it was one The research did find that housebuilders are optimistic for the future, with almost 90 per cent wanting to create Sales Executives: of the first things he Suzanne Easter; new jobs in the next 12 months. If this was repeated across Kim Friend mentioned as he went into the industry, Lloyds suggest that more than 100,000 new housebuilding roles could be created. Circulation/Reader their conference. Enquiry Service: Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking Head of Jane Spice Housebuilders, Alasdair Gardner said: “This report sheds Managing Director: On the other side of the political light on the key areas of support that firms in the sector Simon Reed need to embrace to ensure the long term success and sus- curtain the Tories have tainability of the industry. The manufacturer of the paper used within our publication is a Chain-of-Custody cer- announced more housing “Lloyds Bank is committed to helping housebuilders tified supplier operating within environmental systems certified to both achieve their ambitions for growth and meet the needs of ISO 14001 and EMAS in order to ensure initiatives than you can wave sustainable production. the nation in terms of building new, affordable housing.” Subscription costs just £48 for 12 issues, stick at. However, the real including post and packing. Phone 01435 863500 for details. Individual copies of the publication are available at £5 each inc p & p. ‘elephant in the room’ is still the SHADOW HOUSING MINISTER All rights reserved skill shortages being experienced No part of this publication may be repro- duced or transmitted in any form or by any John Healey means, electronic, mechanical, including around the country. The photocopying, recording or stored in any information retrieval system without the express prior written consent of the pub- challenge will be how the lisher. Although every effort is made to appointed Shadow ensure the accuracy and reliability of mate- rial published in Housebuilder & housing sector can bridge this Developer, the publisher can accept no responsibility for the claims or opinions Housing and made by contributors, manufacturers or advertisers. Editorial contributors to this workforce gap and build the journal may have made a payment towards the reproduction costs of material used to Planning Minister illustrate their products. homes the government is so Printed in England keen to see created. he new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has appointed John Healey as Shadow Housing Tand Planning Minister as part of his shadow cabinet team. John Healey was Housing and Planning Minister in the Gordon Brown Labour government from July 2009 until the general election in May 2010. respond online at www.hbdonline.co.uk industry news 5 BOOSTING HOUSEBUILDING Housebuilding industry ‘key player’ ccording to the Housing and Planning country, highlighting the headline detail of the made with the various measures announced in the Minister, Brandon Lewis, the house- measures announced in the government’s Produc- summer, including