Housing News – Page 237
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£3.5m Aylesbury win
Morgan Ashurst has won a £3.5m contract to build a conference centre and council building for Aylesbury Vale council
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Repairs matter most
A survey by the Tenant Service Authority has found 81% of social housing tenants think repairs are the most important thing for a landlord to get right
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Bottom of the market
House prices are likely to bottom out at the start of 2010, a property consultant has said
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NewsDogged determination: Green light for Barking Riverside
The first 3,300 homes at the Barking Riverside site in east London have finally been approved by the Thames Gateway Development Corporation and Barking and Dagenham council
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NewsWhen the going gets tough
Rather than relaxing rules to bail out ailing schemes, now is the time to introduce clear design standards, so their cost is factored in when the market recovers
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Planning applications in May 2009
The number of projects at detailed planning stage dropped and Heron topped the clients’ chart
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NewsIt's housebuilding, but not as we know it: how the industry will be changed by the crash
After the blind panic of 2008 and the restrained optimism of 2009, housebuilders have begun to think about the way forward
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NewsGovernment to extend planning permission length to six years
John Healey uses first speech as housing minister to announce three-year extension to planning consent duration
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NewsHCA to focus on funds for green existing stock
Housing Finance Group will aim to secure private finance to retrofit UK housing
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NewsUS housing starts hits 30-month high
A 17.2% increase in May was more than twice what economists predicted
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NewsMinister vows more housing choice for councils
John Healy defends government's social housing record in first public speech as housing minister
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News£3.5bn Bellway joint venture gets green light
London scheme will see 3,300 homes and two schools built in partnership with communities agency
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NewsChurchill Retirement Living starts building again
Sheltered housing developer run by sons of John McCarthy says time is right to restart construction
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NewsCZWG student housing design approved
£21m art deco-inspired scheme in Finsbury Park will include 400 apartments over five floors
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NewsJohn McAslan reveals cinema plans for Hornsey Town Hall
The £16m project to restore the north London town hall includes a public performance space and private housing
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NewsHousebuilders creak into action as they run out of unsold stock
Firms respond to gradual increase in demand, but long period of convalescence is in store
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NewsOlympic bosses to rethink 10,000-home legacy plan
Plans for Olympic park after 2012, including conversion of stadium into school, may be altered
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NewsRight at home
Now that the Conservative party is ambling to victory at the next election victory, it has much more freedom to develop housing policy. Jon Neale looks at what it’s likely to be
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Bellway turns to South-east
Housebuilder Bellway will ramp up production in south-east England, where it said sales were now “marginally stronger” than other parts of the country
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NewsGreen Shoots
Each week Building will ask an expert to analyse the latest evidence of green shoots, and see if it stands up to scrutiny. This week we have Simon Rawlinson, partner in Davis Langdon, on housing