All articles by Josephine Smit
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FeaturesHousebuilders' salary survey 2019
Pay is still going up 鈥� driven by continuing skills shortages 鈥� but the economic climate has constrained wages this year
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Why housebuilders鈥� bosses are seeing green
The housing market seems to have hit the bottom and bounced, and according to our salary survey, the pay of housebuilders鈥� directors is about to follow it
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FeaturesDoes your job ever get on top of you?
Each construction profession requires different skills and personalities, so it鈥檚 easy to fit the person with the job, right? Well, actually it鈥檚 harder than that, and the consequences of failure can be very unhappy workers
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FeaturesTreat your staff with honesty and humanity
Thousands of people have been made redundant in the past few months and more will probably follow. How should a good employer handle this painful process? Josephine Smit found out
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The outsider
Forty years after Cathy Come Home brought the plight of homeless people to our TV screens, filmmaker Dominic Savage is tackling the topic in Born Equal 鈥� and finds the themes as alive today as they were then.
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What鈥檚 working - mixed use
The first is a town centre, the second is in a city and the third is in a suburb. All are on the receiving end of mixed-use development to regenerate and bring a new vibrancy to their area, and all have different approaches.
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Keep them spinning, Ken
Of all the plates mayor Ken Livingstone has spinning at one time, none is more prone to topple than Thames Gateway. He tells Josephine Smit all about the revolution.
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Suburban jungle
Take another look at the cover of this issue. It is archetypal suburbia, as a housebuilder of the 1930s promoted it.
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It鈥檚 not all black and white
The government wants more mixed communities but seems to have little idea how to go about it. What should the regeneration sector be doing?
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好色先生TVReeling in Richmond鈥檚 gas guzzlers
好色先生TV鈥檚 Regenerate editor is feeling victimised by Richmond council鈥檚 stealth tax on oversized cars.
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好色先生TVCrest Nicholson launches high density prefabricated brand
Components can be assembled to build units from one-bed apartments to four-bed houses
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好色先生TVShops snub mixed-use schemes in London
About one-third of the commercial space in new mixed-use developments in London is lying empty, a report by London Development Research has revealed.
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好色先生TV鈥楧ouble decker鈥� family homes to meet high-density demand
Bellway Homes and English Partnerships aim to build four-storey blocks in Barking Riverside
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好色先生TVWimpey to build 拢60,000 homes for first-time buyers
G2 subsidiary will sell one and two-bedroom homes in northern England and the Midlands
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好色先生TVCountryside puts Accordia up for sale
Countryside Properties, the housebuilder, is to sell the remainder of its award-winning Accordia site in Cambridge after the departure of Kajima, its contractor on the PFI-led housing project
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好色先生TVPrescott Jr鈥檚 uncomfortable outing
The Sunday Times 鈥榬evealed鈥� John Prescott Jr鈥檚 involvement in the housebuilding industry at the weekend. Is this another embarrassment for his dad?
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好色先生TVHow sustainability became an optional extra
Housebuilders are now offering greywater recycling in new homes but at 拢3500 it doesn't come cheap. The editor of Regenerate wonders whether buyers will opt for such expensive green extras
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Kellys heroics
The past month or so has been marked by Ruth Kelly鈥檚 coming out, not in the white chiffon frills of a debutante, but in her customary sensible trouser suit.