Half-built schemes lose more value to missing paperwork than to the debt itself. When compliance evidence is missing, the fix isn't a valuation, it's re-measuring what's actually built, proving it, and pricing what it costs to finish.

Andy Burnham has promised Britain's biggest council housebuilding programme since 1945. That is the headline everyone has taken from his first week in office, and it is worth pausing on the word "council," because it points to a shift in who commissions housing in this country, not just how much of it gets built. For most of the last two decades, private housebuilders have set the pace. They chose the sites, ran the programmes, and instructed the consultants. Councils and reg

Most people assume the value in project monitoring shows up when something goes wrong. A contractor in difficulty, a programme slipping, a cost plan that no longer adds up. That is when the reports matter, obviously. But the work that makes those reports useful happens much earlier. The initial review is the part we take most seriously. A drawdown pack arrives, often with pressure to turn it quickly, and the temptation is to skim, tick the boxes and move on. We do not do that

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