Housing News – Page 242
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NewsPortland green housing scheme goes in for planning
HTA-designed development will have 77 homes, of which 23 will be affordable
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NewsBovis Homes reports 71% rise in trading in 2009
Private reservations for first four months strongly up on last year but still 25% down on 2007 peak
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NewsBarratt names new finance chief
David Thomas joins the housebuilder from video retail group Game to take over from Mark Pain
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NewsHouse prices drop 1.7%, reports Halifax
Market hopes dampened as lender's April figures show a continuing decline
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NewsTwo London schemes to get £16m kickstart
Homes and Communities Agency’s money will help Lambeth and Haringey development to complete
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NewsKier wins 10-year North Tyneside council contract
Agreement to improve, repair and maintain 16,000 council homes could be worth by worth up to £600m
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NewsGovernment launches fund for private rental housing
Homes and Communities Agency wants to encourage financial institutions to invest in rental property
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NewsBanks invited to bid for slice of £400m housing fund
Barratt and Countryside among housebuilders lining up bids to unlock schemes with Budget cash
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NewsDoncaster’s cultural 25%: Civic and cultural quarter
Muse Developments, the regeneration arm of Morgan Sindall, has won a £300m contract to build a civic and cultural quarter in Doncaster
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Cabe report into social housing design attacked as ‘unfair’
A housing association and a developer have hit out at a report that found social housing to be no better designed than private homes
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NewsIt could have been a lot worse
The housing industry was on tenterhooks before the Budget, hoping for a solution to all its woes. Well, we didn’t quite get that, say Toby Lloyd and Anthony Brand, but it’s a start …
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Planning on the rise
Planning applications were at their highest level last month since September – 47,349 in England, Scotland and Wales, up from a low of 34,876 in December
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Retail inquiry
The communities select committee is holding an inquiry into plans to allow out-of-town retail parks to be built based on their impact rather than need
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Cumbria leaders
Murray Easton, formerly of BAE Systems, is to chair the board of Cumbria’s Barrow Vision scheme
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Westminster homes
London’s Westminster council has announced plans to build 500 homes in the borough on brownfield sites
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Right to buy ditched
The Scottish government has announced plans to end the right-to-buy policy for tenants in new-build council stock in the country
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The new Corgi
The Tenant Services Authority has reminded housing associations to ensure their gas safety engineers have signed the new register that replaced the Corgi system this month.
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NewsHouse prices slip back in April, reports Nationwide
Fall of 0.4% dampens hopes spurred by 0.9% rise last month, as prices fail to follow usual seasonal pattern
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NewsLeeds' Granary Wharf tops out
Ceremony takes place on the Carey Jones-designed Candle House, the tallest tower on the £40m scheme