Public housebuilding – which does not include housing associations – is worse affected than the private sector, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said, while repairs and maintenance construction is also well down on last year. The value of private new build housing construction work over the three months to June 2020 was 52.6% lower than in the same period last year, a record decrease since the ONS began publishing the data in January 2010. For the public sector, the drop was 56.9% – again a record fall. However, the value of private sector housebuilding in June soared a record 42.3% to £1.83bn on the previous month. Read more on Inside Housing.
BMXs, boomboxes and black eyes: growing up on Peckham housing estates in
the 80s – in pictures
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As a teenager, Russell Newell photographed the Peckham estates where he
lived, and his images – unseen for 40 years – document his friends, his
community...
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