Housing News – Page 276
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NewsBlears saves Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands' Doon Street tower
Communities secretary overrules inspector's recommendation for refusal of 43-storey tower on South Bank
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Eco-town selection delayed until next year
Consultation holds up final naming of up to 10 sites for zero-carbon communities
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Scottish affordable housing gets £100m boost
Funding to be brought forward from 2010-11 budget to be spent this year and next instead
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Mortgage lending shows slight upturn in July
Lenders report 5% monthly rise but activity still 27% down over the year
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NewsVermont Developments goes into administration
Liverpool-based firm hits problems after mothballing of £40m residential development in Salford
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NewsBuy-to-let investors may withdraw £18bn from residential market
Survey suggests private investors are looking to place cash elsewhere as property becomes less attractive asset
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NewsAnalysts make predictions ahead of Persimmon results
Housebuilder expected to announce 63% fall in pre-tax profit in six month results out this Thursday
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NewsResidential land values dive 20% in six months
Savills research reveals land values falling four times as fast as house prices - with a further 25% fall to come
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NewsMears clinches £57m of social housing work
Partnership deals with Octavia and Old Ford bring order book to £1.7bn
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Berkeley wins planning for 500-home Sevenoaks scheme
Secretary of State rejects local council's ojbection to mixed-use scheme on edge of nature reserve
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Contractors find shelter from storm in social housing
Business barometer — Morgan Sindall takes top spot thanks to wins at affordable housing arm
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HBF plans to make half of staff redundant
The principal trade body for housebuilders is to make half its employees redundant as the catastrophic drop in the sale of new homes continues
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NewsGovernment spends £16m to bail out eco-home scheme
English Partnerships hands over site for £1 to save flagship Peterborough scheme from credit crunch
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NewsMichael Eavis: the Glastonbury Festival founder talks rural housing
You might think that a man with 900 acres of farmland and the Glastonbury festival to run has enough to keep himself busy. But Michael Eavis has decided to help solve the rural housing crisis as well. Thom Gibbs finds out why
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Callcutt disappointed at review response
Former Crest Nicholson boss John Callcutt has hit out at the government’s failure to ban housebuilders that don’t meet customer satisfaction benchmarks from public sector funding.
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UKGBC sets up carbon consultation
UK Green Building Council will carry out an industry and stakeholder consultation on reducing CO²
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Eco-town prototype faces multimillion-pound shortfall
Government’s prototype is facing a funding shortfall of 'tens if not hundreds of millions of pounds'
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London mayor Boris will not appoint housing adviser
London mayor Boris Johnson has backtracked on plans to appoint a housing adviser to push through his plans for 50,000 affordable homes in the capital in the next three years.
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NewsDurkan wins £70m Clapham Park Estate regeneration scheme
Metropolitan Housing Partnership names contractor to refurbish 537 homes and build 229 new houses
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NewsBellway housing reservations down 45%
Housebuilder says it saw no signs of an improvement in the market in June and July