• ‘Big four’ firms hold majority of vacant sites • ‘Dysfunctional’ system worsens housing crisis • Companies blame planning process for delays

Britain’s biggest housebuilders possess enough land to create more than 600,000 new homes, raising questions about whether they are doing enough to solve the...

3am in Barcelona, Berlin, Sydney, New York and Copenhagen

George Osborne has been accused of jeopardising Britain’s crumbling flood defences over the past five years by prioritising cutting the deficit and warned that...

By Stuart Heritage and Tim Dowling