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Housebuilding Today briefing: Tuesday 10 November 2026
Six stories from the last 24 hours and one date for the week ahead.
Stories from the last 24 hours
whg puts social value at £58.7m for 2025/26 as it builds 270 homes
The Midlands housing association said the figure was £5.3m up on the previous year, alongside 270 new homes, £34m of energy efficiency work and £52.1m of major works to existing stock.
Newcastle consults on 109 social rent homes across 17 garage sites
Newcastle City Council has opened consultation on building up to 109 social rented homes on 17 small brownfield garage sites named in a North East Combined Authority grant round in February 2026.
Greater Cambridge Local Plan for 50,000 homes heads for December submission
Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire councillors will decide this month and next whether to send the joint plan, which sets a need for about 50,000 homes to 2045, to government for examination.
Capital&Centric opens consultation on 234-home Rotherham riverside plans
The developer and Rotherham Council are seeking views on early designs for five town centre sites, including around 234 apartments and townhouses on three riverside plots, before a potential planning application.
Nearly two-thirds of SME housebuilders stall sites as viability pressure climbs to 82%, HBF finds
The seventh State of Play survey from the Home Builders Federation, Close Brothers Property Finance and VELUX finds 63% of small and medium-sized builders have delayed or stopped work on sites.
Muse's Stroudley Walk takes Sustainable Places award at Build to Rent Awards 2026
The 274-home Bromley-by-Bow regeneration delivered by Muse with Poplar HARCA and the GLA won the Sustainable Places and Healthy Homes Award and was highly commended for Development of the Year.
This week
Housebuilder Awards
Takes place on Thursday 12 November.
About this briefing
Published on weekday mornings. Every item comes from a story Housebuilding Today has already published and checked against its sources, from dates organisers have published, or from our data trackers. See the events and awards calendar, or get the week's stories by email with the weekly newsletter.