Housing News – Page 319
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NewsRate rises fail to dampen house market growth
Interest rate rises fail to stem steep housing market growth but RICS says confidence in market is lowest since September 2005
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NewsHIPs 'unworkable' says RICS
June implementation is unworkable says RICS as it calls for emergency meeting with MPs
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NewsTreasury ponders return of new town corporations
Taskforce will work up proposals that may include post-war-style development bodies
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NewsNo carbon, no cars: Foster + Partners scheme in Abu Dhabi
Foster + Partners has revealed these images of what it claims will be the first zero-carbon, zero-waste city
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NewsImages: Foster unveils green utopia in the desert
Foster + Partners says the walled city of Masdar in Abu Dhabi will be the world's first zero-carbon and zero-waste city
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Barratt and Taylor Woodrow win fight for urban village
Consortium wins permission to build 1,200 homes in Cheshire after a 10-year battle
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Red tape threatens to stifle development, says NFB
Mounting red tape threatens to drive out small and medium firms, federation tells Callcutt review
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Estate agents warn that HIPS will bring housing ‘meltdown’
Home Information Packs (HIPS) have come under fire this week and the government has been urged to postpone introducing them on 1 June.
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NewsJerusalem-on-Thame
Metropolitan Housing Trust has won planning permission for a scheme that will provide accommodation for north London’s Orthodox Jewish community.
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NewsBack in the Black Country
Staffordshire developer Jessup has submitted plans for this £65m scheme to regenerate Walsall’s canal area.
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NewsRogers' 60,000 answer
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, formerly Richard Rogers Partnership, has completed the first phase of a housing scheme in Milton Keynes, Buckinhamshire, as part of the government’s £60,000 House competition.
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NewsRok buys SOL Construction for £21m
Contractors expands into Midands with acquisition of building and maintenance firm
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NewsGreen light for Silvertown Quays
Newham gives planning permit to £1.5bn waterside regeneration scheme in East London
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Slow worms slow down housing project for seven months
Building work at West Sussex housing development halted for worm's hibernation period
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NewsWalsall set for £65m Waterfront South scheme
SP Faizey Architects plan 360 canal-side apartments, offices and leisure space in the West Midlands
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NewsHIP criticism "widespread"
Select Committee urges government to take criticism of HIPs seriously after hearing industry complaints
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NewsBarratt Homes announces Wilson Bowden integration plans
Reorganisation wil affect 400 jobs as KingsOak is dropped in favour of focus on two national brands
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NewsCooper voices concern over housebuilding mergers
As government raises fears, speculation grows that Persimmon will hijack Taylor Wimpey deal
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Berkeley shareholders back £1bn joint venture
The Berkeley Group’s shareholders have given the housebuilder approval to form three joint ventures worth £1bn with its biggest investor, Saudi Arabian firm Saad Investments.
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NewsHBF recruits David Pretty
Former Barratt boss to chair lobby group that champions the needs of first-time home buyers