Housing News – Page 266
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NewsDemand for rural affordable homes soars
National Housing Federation says 700,000 people on waiting lists in the countryside
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NewsClaffey House aims for BREEAM 'excellent'
Aedas' zero-carbon design includes rooftop photovoltaic array and ground source heat pump
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Brownfield register needs overhaul
English Partnerships report says system for recording brownfield land available for redevelopment should be more thorough
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NewsHousing slump halves turnover at MJ Gleeson
Regeneration specialist reports loss on back of reduced sales and costs of cutting staff
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Berkeley Group mothballs large regeneration schemes
Pidgley buys smaller sites from distressed housebuilders for a quarter of asking price
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NewsKier: we’re not bailing out of housebuilding
Kier has dismissed reports that it is planning to abandon the private housebuilding market, writes Tom Bill.
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NewsOutgoing Lend Lease chair plans buy-to-let scheme
Nigel Hugill considers converting swaths of unsold city-centre flats into student accommodation
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NewsOFT clears housebuilders – but raises zero-carbon fears
Year-long inquiry finds ‘little evidence’ of malpractice, but says eco targets could affect competition
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NewsFlint: We have a plan to help housebuilders through crisis
Housing minister floats land-buying scheme as Labour surveys wreckage of financial system
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NewsCabe and RIBA plan review of 20,000 schemes a year
Design and planning bodies join forces to crack down on maverick design decisions by councils
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in August 2008
Private residential schemes remain in the doldrums, but the public sector is holding up
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ODA admits village funding ‘very difficult’
The Olympic Delivery Authority has said the problem of securing funding for the £1.2bn Olympic village has been exacerbated by the turmoil in the financial markets over the past week, write Sarah Richardson and Dan Stewart.
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Council vote
Labour ministers defeated a conference motion that proposed to give councils money directly to improve their housing stock.
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U-turn on regional powers
The government is preparing to backtrack on a proposal to force regional assemblies to give up planning powers to quangos.
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NewsPrasad: only two or three eco-towns should go ahead
A key government adviser on eco-towns told a Labour conference fringe event this week that only two or three of the plans were good enough to be developed.
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Four teams vie to build £245m Commonwealth Games village
Four consortiums have been shortlisted to develop the £245m Commonwealth Games village in Glasgow.
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NewsMillett to oversee Olympic venue construction
Jason Millett, the former head of Bovis Lend Lease UK, is to oversee the construction of the main Olympic venues, writes Dan Stewart.
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Bright sparks: how to give tenants energy advice
Two Midlands schemes show how housing associations can help tenants stay on top of their energy costs
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Has mixed tenure funding failed?
Senior figures from housing and planning tell us whether junior housing minister Iain Wright is right and what should take its place
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NewsHouse sales hit 50-year low
Government figures show number of homes sold in August has halved since last year