New methods, new risks
Heywood, A.
New methods, new risks - 2004 - Roof 29(1) January/February 2004, 37(1) .
Considers, from the mortgage lender perspective, the drive following the Communities Plan towards innovative or non-traditional housing construction in the social rented sector. Outlines the history of non-traditional housing since the First World War and considers why lender experience of earlier generations of non-traditional house building has not been entirely happy. Notes that lenders to the social rented sector have recently funded a number of non-traditional schemes and lists the factors which lender concern will focus on. Suggests steps government must take to ensure that non-traditional construction can realise its potential without repeating the mistakes of the past.
REMEDIATION
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
NON TRADITIONAL HOUSING
NON-TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION
SOCIAL RENTED SECTOR
MORTGAGE LENDERS
RIGHT TO BUY
HOUSING DEFECTS ACT 1984
DEFECTS
REPAIRS
New methods, new risks - 2004 - Roof 29(1) January/February 2004, 37(1) .
Considers, from the mortgage lender perspective, the drive following the Communities Plan towards innovative or non-traditional housing construction in the social rented sector. Outlines the history of non-traditional housing since the First World War and considers why lender experience of earlier generations of non-traditional house building has not been entirely happy. Notes that lenders to the social rented sector have recently funded a number of non-traditional schemes and lists the factors which lender concern will focus on. Suggests steps government must take to ensure that non-traditional construction can realise its potential without repeating the mistakes of the past.
REMEDIATION
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
NON TRADITIONAL HOUSING
NON-TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION
SOCIAL RENTED SECTOR
MORTGAGE LENDERS
RIGHT TO BUY
HOUSING DEFECTS ACT 1984
DEFECTS
REPAIRS