Housing News – Page 323
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NewsBrown presses on with planning tax
Chancellor says 70% of revenue derived from planning gain supplement will go to local authorities
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NewsRouse leaves Housing Corporation to head up Croydon
Jon Rouse will leave housing body in the summer to become one of the youngest council chief executives in the country
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NewsJoint venture to provide 870 HIPs assessors
www.energy-assessors.com claims it can provide a third of the domestic energy assessments required by Home Information Packs
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Home Builders Fenderation's last call to scrap planning gain supplement
Smaller developers will not be squeezed out of the market say HBF
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News‘Urban village’ to be built on former military training site
John McAslan to oversee conversion of Woolwich listed buildings and construction of new-build
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NewsPathfinders fight for funding
Report shows programme has attracted developers in areas that had been avoided for decades
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Crest Nicholson goes private
Crest Nicholson announced it would be taken private last week after it accepted a £715m offer from the Castle Bidco consortium led by HBOS and Sir Tom Hunter, the Scottish entrepreneur.
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NewsPlanning applications: February 2007
The South-east has the most projects at planning stage and Tees Valley Regeneration tops the clients’ chart
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Small housebuilders gain brownfield portfolios
Small to medium housebuilders are putting up more homes on brownfield sites, says a survey by a development finance house.
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NewsRethinking Richard Rogers
Crest Nicholson has revised the masterplan for its £500m development on Southampton’s waterfront at Woolston Riverside originally put forward by Richard Rogers.
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LDA launches database of Gateway sites
The London Development Agency (LDA) has launched a database to help developers identify potential sites in the Thames Gateway.
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NewsBonding with Islington
Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects teams up with Groveworld to develop and build City Wharf in Islington
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NewsNew year sees sharp increase in house prices
House prices rose 11% year on year in January while Northern Ireland experienced a huge 42% rise in average house prices
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NewsProfit up 14% at Bovis Homes
Housebuilder anticipates another solid performance in 2007 as forward sales increase 15%
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NewsSight for shore eyes
Client Peel Holdings has revealed plans for a £5.5bn development on Liverpool’s waterfront – a world heritage site.
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NewsCallcutt says improve industry links
Green housing review will concentrate on improving cross-industry co-ordination
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NewsCastle Bidco buys Crest Nicholson
Housebuilder accepts £715m takeover from consortium led by HBOS and Sir Tom Hunter
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NewsHouse prices rose 1.8% last month
Halifax survey finds house prices on the rise despite increase in interest rates
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NewsWilson Bowden reveals £220m profit
Barratt acquisition is in fine fettle as housing completions increase 9% and turnover hits £1.3bn
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NewsCommunities England set to drop land purchase policy
Planned regeneration agency to switch from buying land to helping landowners develop sites