Housing News – Page 322
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NewsTaylor Woodrow shareholders approve Wimpey merger
Proposed £5bn merger now only needs Wimpey sharholder approval as owners of Taylor Woodrow shares approve deal
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NewsRICS: Kelly’s HIPs speech misled parliament
RICS denies Ruth Kelly's claim that it has dropped its judicial review of the HIPs implementation
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Gateway homes ‘must be built twice as quickly’
Audit office says rate of housebuilding must increase 100% to hit 2016 target of 160,000
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NewsHalpern dropped from East End scheme
Barratt has replaced architect Halpern with Allies and Morrison as the designer of a 900-home scheme in London after pressure from London’s new architectural watchdog.
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NewsGovernment unveils fast-track planning reforms
The government this week provided the construction industry with the practical detail it had been waiting for on planning reform.
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NewsGreen light for 1800-home scheme opposite Dome
SOM and BDP architects behind ambitious scheme at Leamouth Peninsula
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NewsHIPs to be delayed until 1 August
Ruth Kelly tells MPs that the start date for Home Information Packs will be delayed by two months
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NewsPlanning to be abolished for extensions
White paper aims to encourage councils to focus on major projects by removing planning requirements for minor alterations
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NewsMPs to vote on scrapping HIPs
The House of Commons will today vote on a Conservative motion to abandon the introduction of Home Information Packs on June 1
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NewsRICS to take government to court over HIPs
RICS starts Judicical Review proceedings against DCLG for failure to carry out proper consultation on HIPs
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NewsRate rises fail to dampen house market growth
Interest rate rises fail to stem steep housing market growth but RICS says confidence in market is lowest since September 2005
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NewsHIPs 'unworkable' says RICS
June implementation is unworkable says RICS as it calls for emergency meeting with MPs
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NewsTreasury ponders return of new town corporations
Taskforce will work up proposals that may include post-war-style development bodies
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NewsNo carbon, no cars: Foster + Partners scheme in Abu Dhabi
Foster + Partners has revealed these images of what it claims will be the first zero-carbon, zero-waste city
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NewsImages: Foster unveils green utopia in the desert
Foster + Partners says the walled city of Masdar in Abu Dhabi will be the world's first zero-carbon and zero-waste city
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Barratt and Taylor Woodrow win fight for urban village
Consortium wins permission to build 1,200 homes in Cheshire after a 10-year battle
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Red tape threatens to stifle development, says NFB
Mounting red tape threatens to drive out small and medium firms, federation tells Callcutt review
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Estate agents warn that HIPS will bring housing ‘meltdown’
Home Information Packs (HIPS) have come under fire this week and the government has been urged to postpone introducing them on 1 June.
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NewsJerusalem-on-Thame
Metropolitan Housing Trust has won planning permission for a scheme that will provide accommodation for north London’s Orthodox Jewish community.