All Housing articles – Page 310
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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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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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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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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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UKGBC sets up carbon consultation
UK Green Building Council will carry out an industry and stakeholder consultation on reducing CO²
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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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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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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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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
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NewsShould northerners move South?
A report from think tank Policy Exchange said some northern cities cannot be regenerated and people should move South for work. But the Centre for Cities says don't write off the North just yet
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NewsHow will regeneration areas do in the downturn?
The latest IPD Regeneration Index showed property investments in regeneration areas slumping. Rebecca Graham, senior analyst at IPD, tells how regeneration areas could perform now based on how they did in the last recession
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NewsBreaking down the levy
Our columnist explains how the community infrastructure levy could operate
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NewsChancellor set to boost mortgage lending
Alistair Darling will help banks and building societies secrue more finance for new mortgages according to media reports
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NewsColchester Borough Homes: Caring for dying people
One of the first schemes to allow terminally ill people to become tenants so they can die in their own homes has won a national award
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NewsNortherners should move South says think tank
Regeneration has failed in cities such as Liverpool and Sunderland says influential 'right of centre' Policy Exchange
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NewsEnglish Courtyard Developments goes into administration
Retirement housing specialist succumbs to pressures of credit crunch leaving four housing schemes incomplete
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NewsRegeneration areas hit hardest by property slump
Returns were 2.6% lower in regeneration areas in compared to the general market according to new survey
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NewsDeveloper selected for Peterborough pPod eco-homes
Housing association Gentoo and housebuilder Morris Homes to build UK's second major zero carbon housing development