1.5m New Homes
1.5m New Homes
Podcast Description
Each month at 1.5M New Homes, journalist and consultant Toby Fox will be visiting a different council in England to ask what works and what doesn’t in getting new homes built. He'll also be asking what it takes to build a career in public sector housing delivery.
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This podcast explores themes related to housing delivery success stories, challenges in public sector housing, and career development. Specific episodes cover topics such as Hounslow's over-delivery on housing targets, Cambridge City Council's strategies for retaining talent, and discussions on investment partnerships that unlock housing opportunities.
Each month at 1.5M New Homes, journalist and consultant Toby Fox will be visiting a different council in England to ask what works and what doesn’t in getting new homes built. He’ll also be asking what it takes to build a career in public sector housing delivery.
Long-term regeneration is rarely blessed by ideal conditions — it takes staying power. In this episode of 1.5M New Homes: The Local Government Challenge, Toby Fox visits Trinity Park and Trinity Rise, being delivered at Morris Walk North and Morris Walk South as part of the One Woolwich estate regeneration programme in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. He speaks with Becca Harrall, Senior Development Manager at Lovell Partnerships, about delivering a 1,600-home regeneration programme over more than 15 years, across multiple phases, market cycles and policy changes. The conversation explores:
- Long-term council–developer partnership working
- Delivering quality architecture and a sense of place
- Social value that lasts beyond the build
- Apprenticeships and local employment pathways
- Managing viability, sales risk and affordability
- Why flexibility and pragmatism keep schemes moving
This episode shows how continuity, trust and partnership make estate regeneration possible even as conditions change. Sponsored by Red Loft and Lovell Partnerships.
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