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Budget: New investment zones will benefit from ‘accelerated planning’
Tees Valley mayor says scaled back package of investment zones in today’s budget will be along similar lines to Truss’ plan
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Features
Budget 2017: key points
The key talking points from Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Autumn Budget
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Comment
Budget 2017: a serious stimulus for housing
Chancellor Phillip Hammond is putting his money where his mouth is, writes Tom Broughton
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Hammond's Budget commits to spend £44bn on housing
Chancellor focuses on boosting housing market with cash pledge, new target of 300,000 homes per year and scrapping stamp duty for most first time buyers
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Comment
Budget reaction: £44bn pledge to boost housing sector
This year’s Budget did give a much needed £44bn boost to the housing sector. But, asks Michael Dall, will it be enough to boost supply?
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Budget 2017: as it happened
Updates from Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Budget speech to the Commons as it happened
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Features
Budget 2017 preview: Something's gotta give
As the chancellor gears up for the Autumn Budget, he is under pressure to ease austerity, potentially taking the focus away from big-ticket construction projects. David Blackman reports on what the industry wants from the Budget versus what it is likely to see
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Comment
Housing hits the headlines - but how much will actually be in the budget?
Altair’s Steve Douglas responds to the news that housing could be set for a significant budgetary boost
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A Budget and its blunders
The government’s plans to cut disability benefits has meant that last week’s Budget has come in for intense public and political scrutiny and now the government needs to find £4.4bn to balance its books
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Osborne gives Crossrail 2 and HS3 go-ahead
Chancellor will commit £140m to the schemes in tomorrow’s Budget
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Osborne scores 0/10 for green budgeting
The chancellor’s announcements last week were focused on supporting the wrong things
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Osborne moves to boost small housebuilders
Chancellor announces £500m finance package for small and custom housebuilders, as well as new garden city and extension of Help to Buy
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Budget hands £270m guarantee to new Mersey bridge
Osborne confirm £270m guarantee for Gateway Bridge project, plus more cash for local infrastructure projects across UK
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Construction is now on the front foot
Tomorrow’s Budget is likely to be positive for construction, but in any case things are looking up
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Features
Budget 2014: Over to you, George
Ahead of next week’s Budget, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV looks at the measures the construction industry can expect to emerge from Osborne’s red box
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Contractors call for green construction boost
Ecobuild latest: The UK Contractors Group urges the chancellor to use budget to put in place a new national retrofit plan to boost green construction
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Engineers call for Budget boost to flood spending
Institution of Civil Engineers urges government to return spending on flood protectoin to pre-2010 levels
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Comment
My beef with the Budget
Richard Steer laments a speech that offers no real nourishment to the industry and, what is worse, shows the chancellor to be deaf to the demands of construction
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Audio clip: ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's editor on Help to Buy
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s editor Sarah Richardson speaking on the BBC’s Today programme about the effect of the housing measures announced this week