Housing News – Page 288
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NewsSwedish sustainable housing
Sweden has become something of a world laboratory for sustainable housing. So what can we learn from their experiments – apart from the fact that they’re light years ahead of ours?
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Meeting homes targets will not solve affordability problems
The government’s own advisers have warned that even if it meets its increasingly ambitious target of building 2 million homes by 2016, housing affordability will continue to worsen.
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NewsStoring up trouble for the future
Kevin Williamson on the long-term prospects for the UK housing market
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Lenders hit new housing hard
UK mortgage lenders are penalising buyers of new-build housing by offering much poorer terms than for second-house houses.
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Boris’ pledge on house sizes
Boris Johnson has announced he will make Parker Morris space standards compulsory under the terms of the new London Plan.
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Erinaceous ‘overpaid’ on Medway contract
Failed property consultant Erinaceous was systematically overpaid for work carried out on a four-year housing maintenance contract in Kent, an investigation into alleged fraud has found.
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Credit crunch claims two more housebuilding firms
Capricorn Homes and Dalesmoor Homes go into administration as future darkens for small companies
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Developer pulls out of £100m Croydon scheme
Credit crunch forces Hyde Housing Association to withdraw from project to build 500 homes and a pool
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NewsReport warns of 'eco-slums'
Local Government Association attacks the way eco-towns programme is bypassing the planning system
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NewsWorld's first revolving tower set for Dubai - images
Each floor of the 80-storey skyscraper will spin around a central core
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NewsTougher flooding regulations required for new homes
Homes being built without flood resistance is "scandalous" says author of report into 2007 floods
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NewsMay house sales down 37% as lending falls 56%
UK house sales collapse as credit crunch drives down mortgage lending
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NewsGovernment faces legal challenge over Hertfordshire housing targets
Hertfordshire council is challenging East of England Plan to build over 80,000 homes in the county
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NewsReport says eco-town developers must try harder
Eco-town Challenge Panel is critical of many schemes' efforts to reduce carbon emissions, and gives them a month to improve
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NewsHousing starts down by 50%
Just 9,589 homes started on site in May compared to 20,019 the previous year according to the NHBC
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NewsIain Duncan Smith: social housing is a stepping stone
System of benefits and social housing is acting as a roadblock to getting people into work says Tory MP
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NewsNow's the time to buy land says Notting Hill Housing's Kate Davies
Too many housing associations bought land at the top of the market says Notting Hill Housing chief executive Kate Davies
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NewsLend Lease struggling to finance Olympic Village
Problems of securing private sector funding raises possibility of further financial support from government for 2012 Village
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NewsVinoly tower at heart of new Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station will be reborn as a green electricity centre under plans put forward by Real Estate Opportunities
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NewsBarratt shares soar 25% after lender agreement
City reacts positively to news of agreements as shares rise across housebuilding sector