All Housing articles – Page 247
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FeaturesGrant Shapps: A young man in a hurry
Come the summer, Grant Shapps is probably going to be in charge of housing policy. And he’s got an awful lot of policy to get through, from a root-and-branch rethink of planning to a radical overhaul of the HCA. Joey Gardiner asked the questions, Tim Foster took the photos
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NewsTransfer of 2012 legacy land hits further delay
Fears grow over future of 10,000-home post-Olympic redevelopment sites as LDA and government fail to agree on price
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NewsGovernment moots change to stamp duty
Change to regulations may boost private rented sector by reducing duty on bulk purchases of flats
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NewsBarclays loans Waterloo £100m for 3,000 new homes
Funds will allow new housing group to build 1,000 homes a year across the Midlands
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NewsLovell wins £22m contract with River Clyde Homes
Scheme of 195 homes is first development to come out of four-year framework with Scottish housing association
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NewsHouseholders could earn £900 in feed-in tariffs
Government announces details of payments to households that use photovoltaics and micro wind turbines to feed in energy to the grid
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NewsHouse prices up 0.1% in January
Hometrack figures show slight monthly increase but prices are down on this time last year
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NewsUnexplainable homes: Access to flats
David Birkbeck's look at the shock troops of housing design continues with a dramatic reinvention
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NewsHCA deputy head to lead Stockport council
Eamonn Boylon, who was poached by Homes and Communities Agency last year, will leave in March
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NewsBenfield Construction goes bust
Workers face redundancy as Benfield Group puts Midlands-based construction arm into liquidation
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NewsDavid Birkbeck launches housing design review series
Chief executive of Design for Homes to showcase examples of good and bad design on Building website
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NewsBovis Homes signs £150m banking deal
Four-year revolving credit facility with five-bank syndicate has improved terms thanks to strong balance sheet and housing upturn
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NewsHCA grants Hackney regeneration scheme £27m
Next phase of Woodberry Down mixed-use project will deliver 250 homes in north-east London
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NewsGary Neville hires Make to design eco-house
Flower-like design in Pennines for footballer dubbed 'Teletubbyland' home by locals
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NewsMcInerney sees no respite from depressed housing market
Irish housebuilder cuts number of completed homes by half
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NewsUnexplainable homes: House or hovercraft?
The new series kicks off with how energy efficiency can become an eyesore
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NewsHalf a million affordable homes could face axe
National Housing Federation warns budget plans could force housing cuts and 278,000 job losses
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NewsAlan Cherry dies aged 76
The founding director of Countryside Properties was awarded the MBE in 1984 and CBE in 2003
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Tories to punish ‘Nimby’ councils
Tory shadow housing minister Grant Shapps this week pledged to take money away from “Nimby” councils in order to fund incentives for local authorities that want housing growth
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News2009 was the worst year for housing since the fifties
NHBC figures show that registrations and sales fell about 20% – even on 2008’s disastrous levels