Housing News – Page 270
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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
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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