Housing News – Page 267
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August mortgage approvals drop 64% on last year
British Bankers Association says falling prices and tighter lending criteria are dampening demand
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Developers should renegotiate social housing deals, says law firm
Housebuilders should change terms to make affordable housing schemes viable
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Council spending on housing will drop by £500m
Gpvernment predicts decrease in spending on new housing and upgrades
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NewsMinister decries mixed-tenure housing model
Subsidising affordable homes from private sales in mixed estates will no longer work, says minister
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NewsHouse prices fall further
Asking prices in England and Wales dropped another 1% in September, says Rightmove
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NewsKier denies it will ditch private housing
Housebuilder dismisses newspaper reports that it is focusing solely on social housing
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NewsJust how green is green power?
In the hurry to switch to green electricity, we haven't worked out the environmental cost of technology used to produce it.
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NewsSchmidt Hammer Lassen masterplans eco-town for Estonia
Architect is collaborating with Buro Happold on the 6,000-resident EcoBay to be built on the Baltic Sea
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NewsSocial housing not tenant focused, says new regulator
Tenant Services Authority boss says sector needs to be more customer-friendly
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NewsEdinburgh blows up sixties flats at Broomview
Video: Demolition contractor SafeDem reduces 10 stories to rubble to make way for regeneration
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NHF demands stricter CO2 timetable for housebuilders
Government told it will miss 2016 zero-carbon housing target unless private builders forced to conform sooner
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NewsKier ditches private housebuilding
UK's 15th-largest housebuilder will focus instead on social housing
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Rok cuts 200 contracting jobs
Rok has cut 200 workers from its contracting business, chief executive Garvis Snook confirmed this week.
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NewsUK brick production hits ‘catastrophic’ low
Brick production in the UK is likely to sink below 2 billion bricks this year for what is believed to be the first time since the forties.
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Urban Splash to cut jobs as downturn grips North-west
Regeneration firm joins growing list of regional casualties – but denies it will close Birmingham office
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NewsPidgley calls on Brown to ‘do something positive’
Berkeley boss predicts Lehman collapse will hit buyer confidence and calls for interest rate cut
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Government to review rules on lobbying councillors
Fear of breaking guidelines results in ill-informed planning decisions, claim developers
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NewsIndustry braces itself against shock wave as bombshells hit financial system
Turmoil on Wall Street and run on HBOS set to hit UK construction market
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BREEAM set to cover communities
BRE is developing a version of its environmental assessment standard that it hopes will persuade developers to look at sustainability across a community