All Housing articles – Page 314
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News
Minister decries mixed-tenure housing model
Subsidising affordable homes from private sales in mixed estates will no longer work, says minister
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House prices fall further
Asking prices in England and Wales dropped another 1% in September, says Rightmove
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Kier denies it will ditch private housing
Housebuilder dismisses newspaper reports that it is focusing solely on social housing
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Just how green is green power?
In the hurry to switch to green electricity, we haven't worked out the environmental cost of technology used to produce it.
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Schmidt Hammer Lassen masterplans eco-town for Estonia
Architect is collaborating with Buro Happold on the 6,000-resident EcoBay to be built on the Baltic Sea
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Social housing not tenant focused, says new regulator
Tenant Services Authority boss says sector needs to be more customer-friendly
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Edinburgh blows up sixties flats at Broomview
Video: Demolition contractor SafeDem reduces 10 stories to rubble to make way for regeneration
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NHF demands stricter CO2 timetable for housebuilders
Government told it will miss 2016 zero-carbon housing target unless private builders forced to conform sooner
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Kier ditches private housebuilding
UK's 15th-largest housebuilder will focus instead on social housing
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Rok cuts 200 contracting jobs
Rok has cut 200 workers from its contracting business, chief executive Garvis Snook confirmed this week.
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UK brick production hits ‘catastrophic’ low
Brick production in the UK is likely to sink below 2 billion bricks this year for what is believed to be the first time since the forties.
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Urban Splash to cut jobs as downturn grips North-west
Regeneration firm joins growing list of regional casualties – but denies it will close Birmingham office
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Government to review rules on lobbying councillors
Fear of breaking guidelines results in ill-informed planning decisions, claim developers
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Housebuilders voice concern over HBOS-Lloyds merger deal
A merger between HBOS and Lloyds TSB would have far-reaching implications for the British housebuilding industry.
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Comment
Claims for falling property values: A turn for the worse
If a housing scheme is delayed and the property market slumps, can developers recover damages for the decrease in value?
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Pidgley calls on Brown to ‘do something positive’
Berkeley boss predicts Lehman collapse will hit buyer confidence and calls for interest rate cut
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BREEAM set to cover communities
BRE is developing a version of its environmental assessment standard that it hopes will persuade developers to look at sustainability across a community
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Industry braces itself against shock wave as bombshells hit financial system
Turmoil on Wall Street and run on HBOS set to hit UK construction market
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Features
Happily ever after
The Gus Report:Â Newhall in Harlow set out to marry quality design with quality of life. So how has it done? Continuing his series of visits to important housing developments, Gus Alexander celebrates something approximating nuptial bliss