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  • Seventy-five native plant species have been introduced in the BRE gardens
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    Take in the view

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Landscaping is set to be the next big thing in sustainable design so Thomas Lane went to BRE’s Innovation Park to see how it should be done

  • Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’ Barking Central development. This view shows the shared back garden, which is built above the refurbished library
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    The rise of the west

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Never mind the agonising slow-motion struggle to develop the eastern bits of the Gateway – in the west Stratford and Barking are shooting up...

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    Regulations

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Recent updates

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    Now what?

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The prototype homes in BRE’s Innovation Park has been a revelation for the rest of the industry. But when are they moving into an estate near us?

  • David Edwards
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    Land without people

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    You can’t build houses without land, and 3 million houses requires an awful lot of it. So how can the public sector help their friends in the private get their hands on it? Well, the recent green paper has some ideas

  • The Lighthouse - Here’s what a level six home looks like …
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    Sustainable housing products

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The way you build a home goes half way to making it sustainable. The other half is its M&E and water harvesting. Alex Smith looks at how the homes in the BRE innovation park used new technology to tackle both

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    Unreal city

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Gordon Brown is promising 10 new eco towns, but are we buying into another illusion? (Anybody here remember the millennium villages?)

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    ...and people without buses

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    As we know, the Thames Gateway can’t succeed without a lot of money being spent on public transport. Yes, but whose money? A recent scheme in Kent may have answered that question

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    A wall, high, around the Earth

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    That’s something else we could do with the 33 billion bricks needed to build those 3 million extra homes. And given the decidedly chilly economic forecast, some are arguing that it’s about as likely

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    Bedzed's baby: Zedfactory housing in Andover

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Green architect Zedfactory has designed a housing development in Andover that takes the Bedzed principles and shows how they can be paid for

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