Housing – Page 234
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in July 2009
This month’s data shows that average sales are still well down on last year …
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Lovell wins £20m housing redevelopment in Hampshire
Social housing arm of Morgan Sindall to replace bungalows with new, green homes for Atlantic Housing
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Profit falls 74% at Persimmon
Housebuilder points to signs of stabilisation as it writes back £27.9m on the value of its landbank
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Redrow weighs up £100m rights issue
Housebuilder seeks shareholder approval for cash call
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Bovis Homes posts loss but reservations leap
First-half results show £8.6m loss for housebuilder but private reservations rise 92%
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Housing starts up 63%
Figure is still 9% lower than same time last year and 39% below 2006 peak
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Turning heads and turbines: Dalston's aerodynamic tower
Aerofoil shape of East London's 'flat iron' building ensures turbines take full advantage of London's wind
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Government insists eco-towns work with locals
Developers of first wave of eco-towns told to have closer ties with existing communities
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Morgan Sindall scoops £35m Yorkshire regeneration job
Craven council selects contractor's housing division, Lovell, as preferred partner on 220-home Skipton project
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House prices fall 2.2% in August
Figures from Rightmove show sellers cutting asking prices even further this month in attempt to speed up sales
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Buy-to-let loan advances down 70%
Figures mark seventh successive quarter of decline in sector
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Housing minister kickstarts ailing local homes initiative
John Healey wants Local Housing Company pilot scheme in Barking to be built by the end of the year
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Quality streets
Shops are closing and the high street is in decline. But it’s time to stop mourning the loss
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Second time lucky: the Sigma II eco-house
When the Sigma eco-home at the BRE Innovation Park failed to hit the upper bands of the Code for Sustainable Homes, the blame was laid squarely on the building fabric. Now its maker is having another go
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Housing for disabled people
The housing association Housing 21 has made an offer to buy Claimar Care, an organisation that provides home care to disabled people
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Alan Camp homes in Peckham
Wake Properties has completed eight homes in Peckham, south London, designed by Alan Camp
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Box Clever bags Bath job
Box Clever is to develop the Ralph Allen Yard site in Bath for the Homes and Communities Agency.
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More room: the demise of the ultra small flat
The housing boom led to the rise of the ultra-small flat. But the crash in the market and new space standards are putting pressure on developers to come up with roomier designs at higher densities – at least for now
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High-performance membranes
Lethame House, a new luxury housing project by Apex Developments in Strathaven, near Glasgow, is using three DuPont building membranes to help it exceed the thermal and airtightness standards set by the regulations
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Insulated panels
Innovaré Systems is providing its large format i-SIP structural insulated panel system for a new accommodation block at Ashdown Forest visitors centre in East Sussex