Housing News – Page 215
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NewsUnexplainable homes: German sausage
A continental approach to housing uses colourful facades to show just who owns what
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NewsApollo launches affordable housing division
Social housing maintenance firm aims to achieve 'significant turnover' within five years
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NewsPersimmon posts profit of £77.8m as buyers return
Housebuilder says it will open 90 sites in the first six months of 2010
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NewsCountryside loses appeal over section 106 row
Communities secretary rejects housebuilder's attempt to build less than 40% affordable housing on neighbouring Cambridge schemes
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NewsOrchard Village gets go-ahead for phase two
Havering estate regeneration by Circle Anglia receives HCA funding and planning approval for second phase of 555-home scheme
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NewsHouse prices suffer first fall for 10 months
Nationwide says snow is partly to blame for February's 1% price fall
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NewsCouncils start early on Tory planning overhaul
Local authorities already on slowdown as green paper sets out plans for system shake-up
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NewsKerslake hits back at Cabe’s Kickstart criticism
The Homes and Communities Agency has hit back at allegations it has funded substandard housing through the £1.06bn Kickstart programme as the political row over the scheme escalates
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Proposal to pay off Nimbys slammed as ‘cheque-book’ planning
Tory proposals to allow developers to come to financial arrangements with objecting neighbours in order to secure their support have been denounced as “cheque-book planning”
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McCann Homes finance boss buys out chief executive
The former finance director of £73m–turnover family-run housebuilder McCann Homes has bought out the chief executive as part of a major restructure
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NewsMorgan Sindall bags £30m housing repairs job
Affordable housing arm Lovell is picked by Gloucester City Homes for five-year maintenance contract
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NewsRedrow's revenue jumps 25%
Half year results show revenue at housebuilder climbing to £187.2m as legal completions rise 21.5%
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NewsTories release planning green paper
Proposals include scrapping centrally-set housing targets and a presumption in favour of sustainable development
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NewsRICS hits out at estate agents study
Surveyors body says there ‘is more to protecting consumers than prices’ in response to Office of Fair Trading research
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NewsHome completions fall to new low in January snow
NHBC reveals that fewer homes were completed last month than at any point since 1981
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Housing stats: New build sales and completions in January 2010
Unsurprisingly, completions in northern Britain were particularly badly hit by the weather
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NewsHome loans plunge to 10-year low
New figures from mortgage lenders show 32% fall in total loans during January
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NewsTelford Homes plans £7.5m share issue to fund private development
Housebuilder says 2012-linked regeneration provides good opportunity to build in east London
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NewsHCA seeks contractors for development work
Three sites for 500 homes released under Public Land Initiative today
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NewsBarratt and British Land were set to support Silvertown Quays
LDA rejected revised bid for £1.5bn Docklands housing scheme despite heavyweight backing