JULY 2018 | 3
News
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
HOUSEBUILDING IS BACK, IS
YOUR BUSINESS MISSING OUT?
Whilst it’s long been said that the UK housebuilding
industry is on its knees, we are once again beginning
to see an increase of new houses being built. Yes, it
may not yet be enough to meet the incredible demand
for houses, but new developments are appearing
all over the UK. In fact, in 2017 UK construction
companies experienced their best year in a decade as
builders registered plans to start over 160,000 new
homes – an increase of 6% on the year before.
Homes England to
launch new framework
to help speed up the
delivery of new homes
At the end of this month Homes England
launches the procurement of its new
Multidisciplinary and Technical Services
Frameworks, which will broaden the
range of technical and design services
available to support Homes England’s
and other public bodies’ work to
accelerate the supply of new homes.
The frameworks will provide
direct access to professional, techni-
cal and design services, building the
strong working relationships need-
ed with these service providers to
prepare land for housing develop-
ment and disposal to the market.
The frameworks will provide
Homes England, and other pub-
lic-sector bodies, with an OJEU
compliant and efficient means to
procure technical and design ser-
vices, helping support the govern-
ment’s ambition to deliver 300,000
homes a year by the middle of the
next decade.
Valued at £150m, the new
frameworks with replace Homes
England’s current framework that
expires in November 2018.
Homes England will make the
frameworks available to other
public-sector bodies, for exam-
ple local authorities, to help
them procure specialist technical
services and develop homes for
their residents. Our frameworks
have been used by over 300
other public bodies.
The new frameworks will
have an underpinning Multidis-
ciplinary Framework, which will
act as a one stop shop to pro-
cure a range of integrated tech-
nical and design services from
a single source. Homes England
has operated this arrangement
successfully in the past, which
will enable the organisation to
continue to work with compa-
nies and their specialist sub-con-
sultant teams.
https://www.gov.uk/government/
organisations/homes-england
It appears that positive
effect has continued in the
first half of 2018, thanks in-
part to the beginning of the
Government’s five-year plan to
inject £44 billion into house-
building to meet their budget
pledge of building 300,000
new homes every year by the
mid-2020s. What does this
all mean? It means there’s
once again sizeable demand
for building products from the
housebuilding industry and for
supply and installation part-
ners who can service these
new developments.
In the past few months alone,
we’ve reported on a number
of new developments. Firstly,
there were the projects named
in the Government’s statement
which included 200 homes
in Devon and 300 homes in
Lancashire – two of many
council-owned sites now avail-
able through £45M of funding
into local infrastructure. Next
was the former Transport
for London tunnelling site in
East London, providing 1,500
homes in the capital with 40%
earmarked as affordable. And
finally, we broke the story of
the Top Gear test track in
Surrey being converted into a
mini-town of 1,800 homes.
Not only is this great pro-
gress, this is a great opportu-
nity for businesses within the
fenestration industry – if they
are proactive and effectively
market themselves along with
their products and services.
Without question, now is the
this is a great opportunity for
‘ businesses
within the fenestration
industry – if they are proactive and
effectively market themselves along
with their products and services
’
time to be investing in market-
ing and communicating with
housebuilders, main contrac-
tors and even architects if
businesses want to be involved
in these lucrative, high-profile
developments.
As one of the largest provid-
ers of prospect data and mar-
ket intelligence for the glazing
and construction industries, we
work closely with fabricators,
installers and product manu-
facturers developing high-im-
pact email marketing and
direct mail campaigns target-
ed to these sectors. Whether
a business is looking to target
main contractors, housebuild-
ers or local builders in their
area or nationwide, or even
communicate with architects
earlier in the specification pro-
cess, we are able to provide the
contact details and business
information to do so.
Yours sincerely,
Jade Greenhow,
General Manager, Insight Data