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James Parker
The demise of L&G as a force in the modular housebuilding sector is not only a huge blow for higher-quality volume construction of energy effi cient homes, it’s also an indictment of critical issues in the supply chain which need tackling.
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In May the pensions provider and new disruptor in the housebuilding market announced it would be stopping all production at its newlybuilt factory in eeds, and liely disposing of it. The fi rm remains committed to the housing sector, having a range of businesses including ala omes under its umbrella, but it is understandably retreating from modular investment, having lost m in seven years.
said that despite the cash it has put in, it had not seen a strong and predictable site pipeline to offset that cost, and laid the blame at lac of sites and long planning delays, as well as the fallout from ovid. ou have also to wonder whether the wider industry and public was suffi ciently ready to adopt modular homes too, for that pipeline to be so inadeuate against the pensions fi rm’s ris analysis.
owever, it’s not as simple as closing a factory and stopping future production, several muchneeded’ modular schemes are currently underway and need to be fi nished.
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But now the results of problems in the supply chain from adapting to modular for new housing schemes have come home to roost for . The home onnington al development in ristol was a fl agship scheme with a lot of affordable provision, but now loos to be one that would prefer to forget. t’s going to have to tear down completed homes in the scheme because there are reportedly serious issues with the foundations. This cannot be purely down to the modular method used however; it suggests there are wider issues with changing the construction model, but this remains to be seen.
don’t mean to spread more doom and gloom in what’s a dreary summer so far, but le omes going into administration is another hammer blow for mass modular housing production, and devastating for employees of course – most will be made redundant. The problem is not modular construction itself, but creating strength in depth’ to deliver it if the overnment really wants modular as it claims to, it must incentivise buyers and builders, plus put levers into the planning system.
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A concerted effort is going to be needed in order to make modular a sustainable mainstream option, and to ensure that the good news of istry reopening a factory doesn’t end up sour for what was to be the future of housebuilding.’ ill ove’s new super suad’ of planners be a more serious platform for such intervention than the name suggests?
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