Housing Festival

📢 Missed the #NHNWSummit? You can now watch the recording or read our blog on Session 1: Homes for health: The impact of housing on wellbeing and resilience, hosted by AtkinsRéalis. ✏️ Read the blog post here: https://lnkd.in/db2AmfnM 📹 Watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/debxF7Wj Zoe Metcalfe Dr William Bird MBE Graham Kauders Matthew Morgan Quality of Life Foundation EDAROTH UK Intelligent Health UK Building Centre

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📢 New blog post today - #NewHomesinNewWays Summit: Reasons to be hopeful and key takeaways. It's hard to believe it’s been just over a month since the New Homes in New Ways Summit. Building on the momentum of the New Homes in New Ways exhibition at the Building Centre, the Summit gathered industry leaders from the public, private and non-profit sectors to spark collaborative action to change the way we deliver homes for the sake of the most vulnerable. 🏘️ As the Housing Festival team, we can only say - what a turn out, what an inspirational group of people, and what a hopeful two days! Thank you to everyone who attended. The Summit is over, but the work continues! Let's keep going together. 📹 All session recordings are now available on our YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/dbqsPTSg https://lnkd.in/dpqzmCPm

Join Retrofit West CIC for upcoming events for #RetrofitActionWeek beginning 22nd March. The Home Energy Fair is a free event bringing together contractors, construction experts, and homeowners to explore the latest in energy-efficient home upgrades. 🛠️ Green Construction Workshop  For contractors & professionals - learn about energy-efficient construction, available The Green Register construction training, and new business opportunities. 🏡 Home Energy Fair  Homeowners - discover solutions for a warmer, more efficient home. Get expert advice on heat pumps, solar panels & more! Funded by the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority. Thank you to Future Leap for event managing the series. Book your FREE tickets now! https://lnkd.in/ecK3iZG3 

🏡 A Fascinating look at factory-manufactured homes of the past, and much hope for the future.

We were delighted to participate in the New Homes in New Ways summit, which explored how Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) can help tackle the housing crisis. Hosted by the Building Centre and the Housing Festival Festival, the summit brought together industry leaders to discuss the challenges and opportunities in scaling MMC. From the role of modular housing in addressing temporary accommodation shortages to the need for standardisation, legal frameworks, and investment, the event sparked a number of important conversations about the future of housing delivery. Read our key takeaways from the summit in the article below. #MMC #ModularConstruction #AffordableHousing #SustainableLiving #ConstructionInnovation #FutureHomes

"The issue of temporary accommodation is significant—there’s a huge amount of money being spent on it, around £1.6 billion a year. It works out to about £75 per night... we need mechanisms to deploy good-quality temporary accommodation on suitable sites." We talked to director at RCKa, Russell Curtis, about his practice’s #modular concept that looks to use meanwhile sites for those looking for #temporaryhousing. Read on in the link below: https://lnkd.in/ehCRmQEZ The modular home is on Store Street crescent outside the Building Centre, as part of the New Homes in New Ways exhibition co-curated by the Building Centre and the Housing Festival. Check it out before the modular concept leaves on Tuesday 4th March.

🚀 A fantastic launch for #AWayBackHome - rapid response housing for communities in need. The stats are becoming all too familiar. In London there are 120,000 households in temporary accommodation, including 159,000 children, equivalent to one in every classroom. That is more children than the population of Cambridge. It's costing London Boroughs £120 million per month and forcing many of them to the verge of bankruptcy 🚨 One of the best panels I have seen at an industry event, expertly chaired by Wayne Hemingway MBE with Tom Copley, Deputy Mayor of London for Housing, Sally Orlopp of Centrepoint and Hugh Jeffery of Wates Residential introduced by Phillippa Prongué MD of Wates 👏 🌊This felt like the beginning of a new movement, with universal agreement that we need to act fast and decisively to provide safe and secure homes for families desperately in need. Temporary accommodation should never be a makeshift solution. A hotel room, or a hostel bed, is not a substitute for a home. The contrast between the mock up of a typical B&B and the prototype module we built in 2 months couldn't have been more stark. Wayne talked about his tour of a modular factory with John Prescott 20 years ago and asked what was different now? The answer is that we have learnt from mistakes, whilst public sector landowners and private sector developers know they have to work together to address the temporary accommodation emergency, like we did during Covid with the Nightingale hospitals. 📚I strongly urge you to read this new playbook which i'm proud the LDN Collective have been involved in 👉 https://lnkd.in/eM_K7xee It has a 10 step methodology that anyone can follow to rapidly design and deliver transitional housing to empty sites where families can move out of the dire living conditions they are in currently. To prove it works, we installed a 2 bed family home with separate kitchen and bathroom outside the conference venue...and it took 2 months from start to finish. 🏡 Everyone agreed that the critical thing we need now is a new class of permitted development for quality modular homes that are temporary in location, can be moved quickly, but are built to last (our prototype has a 60 year lifespan). Looking forward to engaging with policy makers at Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Homes England, the Greater London Authority and London Councils to make this happen. 🏆 Massive shout out to the team at Wates who have been driving this Hugh Jeffery, Michael Daniels, Rory Brown, Vijay P., Charlotte Wills and Georgia Carew. It's been a pleasure working with LDN Collective members Better Delivery, RCKa, Conisbee, Rumi Bose and our partners HTA Design LLP, Rollalong Ltd, Mishcon de Reya LLP and Avison Young │ UK #CollectivelySpeaking #WeAreCityMakers #Temporaryaccommodation #housingcrisis #homelessness

🏡 Wow! Incredible timelapse of installation of this modular home by Wates Group and Rollalong Ltd outside the Building Centre as part of the New Homes in New Ways exhibition! 📅 Two days left to view the home and the exhibition which close at the end of the month - get there if you can!

Some eyewatering figures in this timely report by Peter Apps in Inside Housing magazine this week: councils now spending in excess of £2bn each year on housing people in need, much of it on sub-standard accommodation and most of it with private landlords. Apart from housing association Notting Hill Genesis - which topped the league with nearly £85m received in five years - the next 11 recipients of public money are all private companies. It doesn't need to be this way. The land, money, skills and need all exist. All that's standing in the way is our will for things to change. The #NewHomesInNewWays exhibition at the Building Centre presents some practical ways in which we can stop spending money on privately rented, sub-standard accommodation, and instead deliver decent homes quickly, at significantly less cost to the public purse...and much-reduced emotional impact on those most affected by the housing crisis. It's shameful that we've not taken steps to avoid this but, as they say: the best time to have done something was yesterday. The second-best time is now. https://lnkd.in/dJaTBCmz