The UK’s housing market is broken and even the Government agrees on that. But who should be responsible for fixing it?

Plenty has been written about Carillion’s demise, and the fallout is set to intensify in the next few days as the shockwaves ripple through the economy.

Monday’s Cabinet reshuffle was portrayed as the golden opportunity for Theresa May to put aside the turbulent ending to 2017 and achieve two things: stamp her authority on the Conservative Party after a disastrous election and regalvanise her party in order to meet the growing threat from Jeremy Corbyn.

Dominic Raab, the 16th Housing Minister in only 20 years. His predecessor, Alok Sharma, only managed 6 months in the post, the shortest tenure in the last 20 years (which includes a further 5 Ministers who didn’t last a year). So, who is Dominic Raab?

The New Year is an exciting time, one for reflection on the previous year as well as a chance to look at the opportunities ahead. The beginning of the year is also an ideal time to make wrong predictions, completely miss the mark on the year’s trends and put your cards down for all to see. So with that in mind, here’s what I’m going to be looking for during the year ahead.

Three weeks have passed since the Budget and, although I worry about whether any of the significant changes will come into action, I am heartened by one particular initiative.

Does starting a family have to end the fun of city centre living? For many it has and still does.

Last week Iceni Projects and the Sustainable Development Commission launched the Sustainable Development Scorecard; a new free online tool that will remove the ambiguity from the National Planning Policy Framework’s (NPPF) definition of sustainable development.

The eagerly-anticipated new London Plan is set to be published later today.

No public sector bureaucracy, no vested interests and “deeds not words”. This is what I took to be the three essential calling cards highlighted in Sajid Javid’s speech in Bristol last Thursday.