Housing News – Page 269
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NewsPark regeneration: green and pleasant land
How a park in a deprived area of south-east London went from no-go zone to award-winning oasis
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NewsHow English Partnerships could bail out regeneration schemes
Our columnist considers how the government's regeneration agency could help developers to sell homes and buy land
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NewsFears over Oakdene's future
Housebuilder relies on temporary banking deal after £6.4m interim loss and failure to raise £5m on stock exchange
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NewsBovis Homes appoints non-exec deputy chairman
Alastair Lyons arrives from Admiral Group to take up roles of deputy chairman and senior independent director
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NewsBarratt offers 43% discount on multiple house purchase
Investors buying five or more units offered massive discount by housebuilder feeling the squeeze
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Oakdene in breach of banking covenants
Housebuilder fails to raise £5m on the stock exchange and reveals interim loss of £6.4m
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NewsPlaces for People to cut jobs
One of the country's biggest housing associations could shed up to 100 staff
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Housebuilders and developers build 'absolute rubbish', claims Tory
Shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey calls for a chief architect to advise government on good public sector design
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NewsTories will build more homes says Shapps
Conservatives would scrap housing limits for local councils according to shadow housing minister Grant Shapps
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NewsTories: OFT should avoid 'ambulance-chasing'
Shadow construction minister Mark Prisk says he will meet with the OFT to ensure its motives in construction inquiry were 'genuine'
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Huddersfield gets go-ahead for £175m regeneration
Strategic Sites revised scheme includes new college building, offices and homes plus canal upgrade and public square
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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