All articles by Josephine Smit
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FeaturesHousebuilders' salary survey 2019
Pay is still going up – driven by continuing skills shortages – but the economic climate has constrained wages this year
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Why housebuilders’ bosses are seeing green
The housing market seems to have hit the bottom and bounced, and according to our salary survey, the pay of housebuilders’ directors is about to follow it
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FeaturesDoes your job ever get on top of you?
Each construction profession requires different skills and personalities, so it’s easy to fit the person with the job, right? Well, actually it’s harder than that, and the consequences of failure can be very unhappy workers
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FeaturesTreat your staff with honesty and humanity
Thousands of people have been made redundant in the past few months and more will probably follow. How should a good employer handle this painful process? Josephine Smit found out
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The outsider
Forty years after Cathy Come Home brought the plight of homeless people to our TV screens, filmmaker Dominic Savage is tackling the topic in Born Equal – and finds the themes as alive today as they were then.
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What’s working - mixed use
The first is a town centre, the second is in a city and the third is in a suburb. All are on the receiving end of mixed-use development to regenerate and bring a new vibrancy to their area, and all have different approaches.
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Keep them spinning, Ken
Of all the plates mayor Ken Livingstone has spinning at one time, none is more prone to topple than Thames Gateway. He tells Josephine Smit all about the revolution.
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Suburban jungle
Take another look at the cover of this issue. It is archetypal suburbia, as a housebuilder of the 1930s promoted it.
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It’s not all black and white
The government wants more mixed communities but seems to have little idea how to go about it. What should the regeneration sector be doing?
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NewsReeling in Richmond’s gas guzzlers
Building’s Regenerate editor is feeling victimised by Richmond council’s stealth tax on oversized cars.
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NewsCrest Nicholson launches high density prefabricated brand
Components can be assembled to build units from one-bed apartments to four-bed houses
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NewsShops snub mixed-use schemes in London
About one-third of the commercial space in new mixed-use developments in London is lying empty, a report by London Development Research has revealed.
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News‘Double decker’ family homes to meet high-density demand
Bellway Homes and English Partnerships aim to build four-storey blocks in Barking Riverside
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NewsWimpey to build £60,000 homes for first-time buyers
G2 subsidiary will sell one and two-bedroom homes in northern England and the Midlands
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NewsCountryside puts Accordia up for sale
Countryside Properties, the housebuilder, is to sell the remainder of its award-winning Accordia site in Cambridge after the departure of Kajima, its contractor on the PFI-led housing project
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NewsPrescott Jr’s uncomfortable outing
The Sunday Times ‘revealed’ John Prescott Jr’s involvement in the housebuilding industry at the weekend. Is this another embarrassment for his dad?
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NewsHow sustainability became an optional extra
Housebuilders are now offering greywater recycling in new homes but at £3500 it doesn't come cheap. The editor of Regenerate wonders whether buyers will opt for such expensive green extras
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Kellys heroics
The past month or so has been marked by Ruth Kelly’s coming out, not in the white chiffon frills of a debutante, but in her customary sensible trouser suit.