Housing News – Page 329
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NewsBlowing in the wind
The Joseph Rowntree Trust’s pioneering development – the pre-fabricated city-centre apartments for single people at affordable rents (CASPAR) housing scheme in Leeds – will be demolished.
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Cabe reveals worst housing designers
Out of Britain’s top 10 volume housebuilders, Bellway Homes is the company with the poorest designed schemes and Berkeley Group is the company with the best, according to an audit by Cabe
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NewsBarratt uses £2.2bn deal to reinvent its brand
Company becomes Britain’s biggest housebuilder after Britain’s biggest housebuilding takeover, and in the process moves upmarket and enters the FTSE 100
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What the Barratt deal means for the sector
Barratt’s purchase of Wilson Bowden enables it to regain the crown of Britain’s biggest housebuilder, which it lost last year to Persimmon.
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NewsBuschow’s Hemel breakthrough
After a long battle, Buschow Henley has succeeded in securing planning permission for 56 affordable and shared ownership flats in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
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NewsGalliford Try buys Linden Homes for £244.5m
Galliford Try's housing business will operate under Linden Homes banner as takeover propels group into housebuilder top ten
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NewsCartwright Pickard apartment scheme on site in Reading
The 211-bed apartment Chatham Place scheme will form part of £250m regeneration scheme
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NewsHousebuilders set zero carbon challenge
English Partnerships launches a zero carbon design competition for housebuilders
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NewsLovell wins £34m Rea Valley rebuild
Housing contractor will build 353 homes to replace defective pre-cast concrete housing in Northfield, Birmingham
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NewsBDP wins masterplan for notorious Belfast jail
Architect BDP will work on plans for former Crumlin Road Gaol which will feature a hotel, housing and sports and education facilities
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NewsImages: I spy an iPod in Dubai
The iPad has myriad hi-tech features including an iRotation Room and iDeckchairs
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NewsGalliford in takeover talks with Linden Homes
Construction and housing firm is understood to be prepared to pay about £200m for Linden Homes
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NewsBarratt to buy Wilson Bowden for £2.2bn
Move will make Barratt remains biggest housebuilder in UK with about 20,000 completions per year
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NewsBellway and Wren Homes upbeat ahead of interims
Bellway completions up 10% for six months to January 31 while Wrens interims are in line with expectations
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NewsZero carbon split opens as small housebuilders speak out
NFB chief executive writes to minister talking over ‘shellshock’ at package of proposals
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Planning gain pays for more than half of social housing
Private developers also paid for 46% more affordable development in 2005/06 than in 2003/04
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House starts fall in December – but completions rise
December brought a mixed set of results for housebuilders according to the latest statistics from the National House Building Council (NHBC).
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NewsThe long march to zero carbon
The housebuilding industry has made a start on zero carbon. Here’s how the government can help
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Three-quarters of population would buy new-build
The proportion of the public prepared to buy a new-build home has risen sharply since the end of the nineties, according to research by the estate agent Savills.
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NewsEP fund chooses 18 sites for 700 new homes
Barratt, Bellway and George Wimpey to build 700 new homes through First Time Buyers’ Initiative