All Housing articles – Page 372

  • Cook: Masterminding the G2 Wimpey initiative
    ɫTV

    Wimpey to build £60,000 homes for first-time buyers

    2006-10-06T00:00:00Z

    G2 subsidiary will sell one and two-bedroom homes in northern England and the Midlands

  • Michael Gove
    Features

    The Gove in government

    2006-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Michael Gove, the highly opinionated polymathematical star of the Tory front bench, might just get the chance to translate his thoughts on housing and planning into action soon. David Blackman found out what they are

  • ɫTV

    Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in August 2006

    2006-09-29T00:00:00Z

    This month’s data reveals the usual quiet summer, but private sales are up on August 2005

  • ɫTV

    Turning a new Leith

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Make Architects has submitted a detailed planning application for an £80m mixed-use scheme in Westfield, Edinburgh that would provide 176 homes and meet the city’s sustainable design guide for energy efficiency.

  • ɫTV

    PRP at the gates

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Architect PRP has won its first competition in Russia to design this £53m luxury scheme on the outskirts of Moscow.

  • ɫTV

    Pathfinders plan U-turn on demolition

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Housing market renewal managers have volunteered to redraw some of the areas covered by the initiative in response to rising house prices. Opponents of demolition have argued that this has made the policy redundant in many districts.

  • Looking to the future: what the  Poplar residential scheme will look like
    ɫTV

    Herzog & de Meuron get go-ahead for social housing

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Stirling prize-winners receive planning permission for mixed-use scheme in Poplar, east London

  • ɫTV

    Regeneration sector hit by recruitment and retention crisis

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Some regeneration bodies are retaining staff for as little as a year, as the sector struggles with a recruitment crisis.

  • Features

    What it costs: photovoltaics

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Photovoltaics may help reduce energy costs, as well as cutting CO2 emissions. Peter Mayer of ɫTV LifePlans looks at the options and whole-life costs of PV systems

  • ɫTV

    Oxford Street glitz

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Client Land Securities has been given the go-ahead for one of the biggest developments ever on Oxford Street.

  • Features

    An oasis by the Elephant

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Just around the corner from the Elephant & Castle shopping centre, a colourful housing scheme by de Rijke Marsh Morgan has replaced the drab greys of Southwark’s Heygate estate. Martin Spring explains how the project is just the beginning of a long-overdue £1.5bn regeneration plan

  • ɫTV

    Buongiorno Sheffield

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    The proposed redevelopment of the listed 1960s Park Hill flats in Sheffield by Studio Egret West and HawkinsBrown forms part of Britain’s contribution to the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which opened on 10 September and runs until 19 November.

  • ɫTV

    Merseys modern methods

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Lovell and PRP Architects have won planning permission for a £20m sustainable housing scheme in the Kensington area of Liverpool.

  • ɫTV

    Up Greenwich creek

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    A planning application has been submitted by Creekside and Ampurius Nu Homes to build a mix of commercial and residential accommodation in Deptford, south-east London.

  • ɫTV

    Boom year for Stewart Milne

    2006-09-06T14:51:00Z

    Construction group enjoys tenth successive year of growth as profit increases 40% to £28m

  • Ian Robertson
    ɫTV

    Fewer openings knock Wilson Bowden profit

    2006-09-06T09:13:00Z

    Housebuilder's results reveal a 14% fall in interim profit to £85.5m but forward order book increases in value

  • ɫTV

    Hackney-on-Water

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    This £22m Kleine Wharf mixed-use scheme in Hackney has been completed.

  • Jane Aitkin
    ɫTV

    Wilson Bowden appoints new finance director

    2006-08-29T12:09:00Z

    Jane Aikman joins the housebuilder's board on 4 September and takes over from Graham Brown as group finance director

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    Pack leader

    2006-08-25T00:00:00Z

    A prototype instant flatpack house has been designed by de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects of London. Dubbed “Naked House”, it is intended to be purchased online and delivered anywhere in the world within six weeks.

  • ɫTV

    Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in July 2006

    2006-08-25T00:00:00Z

    This month’s data reveals that regional completions are down on June, but sales have bounced back since last year