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Housing Information Hub

Guidance, information and tools to support homebuilding, placemaking and regeneration

This collection was withdrawn on 17 September 2025

The housing information hub is not currently being actively updated but remains here for reference use.

• From: Homes England
• Published: 25 July 2023
• Last updated: 17 September 2025 — See all updates

The Housing Information Hub, developed by Homes England, signposts local authorities and other housing providers to guidance and tools relating to homebuilding, placemaking and regeneration.

Find guidance on the relevant topics below:

• Financing homebuilding and regeneration – information on economic appraisals, financial viability, cost estimation, funding, delivery mechanisms, the Delivery Partner Dynamic Purchasing System and procurement

• Leading homebuilding and regeneration – information on community engagement, governance, programme and project management, and resources and risk management

• Building healthy places – information on design, infrastructure, construction management, Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and self and custom-build

• Using land for homebuilding and regeneration – information on identifying land, land acquisition, brownfield land, land disposal, due diligence, feasibility and partnership working

• Planning for homebuilding and regeneration – information on master planning, local planning, planning conditions, environment and sustainability, garden towns and villages, estate regeneration and housing tenures

Homes England have also developed the following products to further support with homebuilding, placemaking and regeneration:

• Capacity Analysis Tool - A tool designed for local authorities and other organisations to help identify skills and capacity in relation to housing delivery and regeneration, and to identify steps to help improve this capacity.
• Homes England community engagement advice notes – Our advice notes aim to promote meaningful community engagement and support the understanding and delivery of ‘locally relevant social value’ linked to housing, planning and development.
• Local government resources video playlist - A video playlist of over 100 learning programme sessions for local government and housing professionals.

Published 25 July 2023

Last updated 17 September 2025 + show all updates

1. 17 September 2025

   The link to 'The New Homes Fact Sheets' has been removed. The number of local government resources in our video playlist has been updated.

2. 2 September 2025

   A link to Homes England community engagement advice notes has been added.

3. 23 November 2023

   New Homes England resource added

4. 21 August 2023

   Estate regeneration added to Planning for homebuilding and regeneration.

5. 25 July 2023

   First published.