All articles by Josephine Smit – Page 2
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On home turf
Karl Pickering, managing director of housebuilder Explore Living, talks exclusively to Josephine Smit about an approach that owes much to major construction - well, it is an offshoot of Laing O'Rourke after all.
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Body building without steroids
Some of you may be reading this in the genteel surroundings of Harrogate, the venue for the affordable housing sector's key June event, the Chartered Institute of Housing annual conference.
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What went right - 10 government ideas that actually worked
It's fun, of course, to slag off governments and moan that nothing works, but here's a thing: sometimes government initiatives really do work. Regenerate asked a bunch of experts to tell us what's gone right in regeneration. By Josephine Smit
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Archive TitlesRipped from the headlines
The housing estates of France's banlieues are ghettos of deprivation. That kind of living environment fosters discontent, so it was hardly surprising when the situation erupted into violence late last year.
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Archive TitlesNice day for a demolition
The housing market renewal initiative hasn't exactly been popular with the public or the newspaper columnists. So how did the Newcastle Gateshead pathfinder get away with demolishing 1300 homes and building just two
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NewsShelter from the media storm
Building's housing editor usually has the ‘resi' patch to herself but when a media scrum descended upon Crest Nicholson's £60k home she found herself having to fight for every soundbite.
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Archive TitlesThe whirligig of power
Just around the corner from my home is a park. It's a pretty, well-designed park, with swings and roundabouts and a small cafe. But it shouldn't be there. It sits on a prime London site that was intended to house a major mixed-use regeneration scheme.
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Archive TitlesSalford Vs Manchester
In a contest worthy of Match of the Day, two teams are vying for the BBC's ‘media zone' - the relocation of key departments to the north of England. Josephine Smit talks to the two sides' avid supporters and asks what being promoted to the premier league will mean for ...
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Archive TitlesDesign codes: the verdict
Design codes are all about delivering faster planning permission - that, at least, is the theory. But how do they work in practice? Two architects give their answer
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Archive TitlesCutting the cake
A penny on a pint of beer. Higher road tax on those gas-guzzling 4x4s.
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Features10 years younger (how to transform a decrepit sink estate into an urban utopia in a single decade)
An evolving 10-year masterplan including parkland, mews houses and glass-fronted apartments and culminating in a 20-storey eco-tower: has Birmingham found the definitive way of transforming urban sink estates?
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NewsMiller's Hough plans to build on Fairclough acquisition
Chief executive Tim Hough intends to establish Miller Homes as a 5000-unit business after ‘troublesome' buy
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Archive TitlesThe lie of the land
It may not look like it but this plot of land is a brownfield site and its owner has ambitious plans to turn it into a role model for sustainable development, one that will be water, energy and waste neutral. But will the government's latest policy proposals help or hinder ...
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FeaturesIn the shadow of the heron
Stephen Stone had just taken up the top job at Crest Nicholson when rumours began to circulate that Gerald Ronson’s Heron International was hatching a second takeover bid.
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FeaturesThe inheritors
The standard business model of the standard volume housebuilder is well tried, well tested and increasingly obsolete. Now the market is being invaded by dynamic, agile firms that have adapted to an environment in which affordability, sustainability and brownfield expertise are what count.
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FeaturesA confident man
Roger Madelin has waited 20 years to tackle the father, mother and great aunt of all regeneration projects: London King’s Cross. So how come he’s looking so calm, so relaxed?
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Archive TitlesCalling time on alcohol-fuelled regeneration
Let’s raise a glass to the developers of pubs and bars for all they’ve done for regeneration.
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Archive TitlesDiane Abbott
As MP for Hackney, one of the poorest and most crime-ridden boroughs in the UK, Diane Abbott is all for regeneration. But it has to start with people not buildings – people like the youth gangs hanging about her street. Photographs by Julian Anderson
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NewsModular Kajima scheme to be evacuated over collapse fears
Blow to government’s off-site building plans as Arup warns Leeds housing block could fall down in severe weather
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