All Housing articles – Page 17
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Gove unveils plan to give legal force to £4bn cladding threats
Ministers set to amend law to stop developers from building unless they pay into remediation fund
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Pocket Living given thumbs up for two Old Kent Road schemes
Plans include 11-storey block designed by Hawkins\Brown
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Government asked experts to ‘step away’ from investigation into deadly cladding fire
Grenfell Inquiry hears BRE team was asked to stop investigation into Lakanal House fire after less than a month
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Government used fire safety group to rubber stamp flawed regulations, Grenfell inquiry hears
BRE group was given ‘contractual requirement’ to not make any policy recommendations in response to fires
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Redrow boss lays into creaking planning system
Housebuilder says system contributed to decline in completions in half year results
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Senior civil servant failed to update safety guidance despite ‘major fire’ warning
‘Confusing’ building regulations not clarified after blaze issues raised in 2014 meeting
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Developers on notice for £170m scheme next door to Hemel Hempstead station
Network Rail planning decade-long work under Farrells masterplan
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Government provided building control body with a ‘pre-prepared script’ amid media scrutiny after Grenfell fire
Official wrote to the NHBC asking it to rebut claims that tower’s combustible cladding panels complied with building regulations
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MPs criticise confusing plans to replace gas boilers
Public in the dark and lacking direction over heat pump policy, cross-party committee report claimsÂ
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV control body approved combustible materials because scrutinising them was too ‘time consuming’
NHBC fire engineer admits the approach was a ‘dangerous mistake’
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Kingspan threatened cladding firm with legal action if it revealed results of failed fire test
Grenfell Inquiry hears the 2008 test had failed within 15 minutes with ‘flames coming off the top of the test rig’
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Gove pledges to boost transport, town centres and skills in levelling up plan
Long-awaited white paper set to detail how government plans to achieve 12 ‘missions’
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The Leasehold Reform Bill: a misplaced eye on developers
Limiting a ground rents ban to new-builds seems oddly aimed at housebuilders, who for the most part have modified their practice on this anyway
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Mayor warns cost inflation hitting 45% on some London housing jobs
Sadiq Khan says there will be ‘significant impact’ on affordable home building without government cash
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ESG targets have never been more important for build to rent developers
This is a booming sector, but to win work you need to really show you are making the social and environmental impact that investors are demandingÂ
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The fury of a homeowner
Tony Bingham is alarmed by an MP’s draconian suggestions for regulating domestic building works – and has a much better idea
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Pay into fund or face ban, Gove tells cladding manufacturers
Housing secretary says cladding and insultation sector must contribute ‘significant portion’ of remediation costs
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Business secretary still to meet CLC over mounting products testing crisis
Government yet to respond to group’s warning on new certification rules
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Crest Nicholson moves back into profit
Housebuilder says ‘turnaround complete’ after torrid few years
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Features
Is working from home causing a planning gridlock?
Many developers say they cannot meet the unprecendent demand for new homes and blame local authorities for switching to remote working