Housing – Page 288
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Flint: Fewer than 10 eco-towns may be built
The government will not force through 10 eco-towns in the face of public opposition if proposed schemes do not make the grade, ministers have decided.
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OFT investigation: Enough of the mudslinging
The OFT investigation has certainly focused the minds of public sector clients, says Jon Rouse, but now it’s time to stop casting blame and get on with the work
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Croudace boss reveals inside story of failed sale
Andy Yallop explains how the housebuilder came to turn down an offer from Hyde Housing Association
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Cotswoldgate facing liquidation
The administrator of Cotswoldgate is poised to put the collapsed housebuilder into liquidation, a move that could pave the way for legal action against its former directors, writes Michael Glackin.
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Government-commissioned report into last year’s flooding calls for big change in housebuilding methods
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Addenbrookes Hospital: Hospital housing
Housing association Sanctuary has received detailed planning permission for this 100-apartment key-worker housing scheme on a car park in the grounds of Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.
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Swedish sustainable housing
Sweden has become something of a world laboratory for sustainable housing. So what can we learn from their experiments – apart from the fact that they’re light years ahead of ours?
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Meeting homes targets will not solve affordability problems
The government’s own advisers have warned that even if it meets its increasingly ambitious target of building 2 million homes by 2016, housing affordability will continue to worsen.
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Storing up trouble for the future
Kevin Williamson on the long-term prospects for the UK housing market
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Lenders hit new housing hard
UK mortgage lenders are penalising buyers of new-build housing by offering much poorer terms than for second-house houses.
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Boris’ pledge on house sizes
Boris Johnson has announced he will make Parker Morris space standards compulsory under the terms of the new London Plan.
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Erinaceous ‘overpaid’ on Medway contract
Failed property consultant Erinaceous was systematically overpaid for work carried out on a four-year housing maintenance contract in Kent, an investigation into alleged fraud has found.
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Credit crunch claims two more housebuilding firms
Capricorn Homes and Dalesmoor Homes go into administration as future darkens for small companies
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Developer pulls out of £100m Croydon scheme
Credit crunch forces Hyde Housing Association to withdraw from project to build 500 homes and a pool
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Report warns of 'eco-slums'
Local Government Association attacks the way eco-towns programme is bypassing the planning system
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World's first revolving tower set for Dubai - images
Each floor of the 80-storey skyscraper will spin around a central core
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Tougher flooding regulations required for new homes
Homes being built without flood resistance is "scandalous" says author of report into 2007 floods
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May house sales down 37% as lending falls 56%
UK house sales collapse as credit crunch drives down mortgage lending