All Leader articles – Page 25
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CommentLocalism in Walthamstow: Down at the local
For an unsettling preview of where the localism agenda may be heading, take a look at our piece on the battle of Walthamstow Stadium. It’s a familiar story of an ambitious developer expertly jumping through all the regulatory hoops to overhaul a popular local landmark.On paper the plan looked a ...
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CommentA harsh reality check
Arup’s redundancies this week are an unfortunate reflection of the state of the industry
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CommentMoney where the mouth is
It’s already turning into the kind of high-stakes City game where fortunes and reputations can be made or broken.
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CommentBye-bye Bovis
The year has just begun and already one of the oldest names in UK construction is on the way out
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CommentOnce upon a year ...
For many of you, 2010 has been a year of little comfort and even less joy
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CommentIt's even tougher out there
The world is about to get nastier for construction. Having endured months of uncertainty and finger-in-the-air budgeting, you’ll no doubt want to wrap your 2010 numbers up and dump them in the bin, along with those of 2009 and 2008
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CommentAttack of the clones
Atkins this week becomes the latest British firm to reveal it has fallen victim to Chinese fraudsters
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CommentFairness heads south
Come back John Prescott, all is forgiven! You probably never thought you’d hear such a plea
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CommentA riches to rags story
The sudden suspension on Monday in the shares of Rok - “the nation’s local builder” - would have surprised few in the City.
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CommentPaul Morrell's first year at Whitehall: Paul's plan
The government’s construction advisor has been in the job for a year - we take stock
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CommentWhat Dan Labbad told us
Labbad seems to want Bovis to emulate companies such as Berkeley Group, which are able to change their strategy on a sixpence and leave threepence change
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CommentSpending review: What’s the damage?
We now have certainty and the knowledge that government plans to invest
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CommentComprehensive Spending Review: Brace yourself for bad news
Kier topped our monthly business barometer chart thanks to contracts worth £160m. This time last year it was also in the lead, but then its haul was £660m
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CommentDon't kid yourself
Our Top 250 consultants league table shows the harsh realities gripping the construction sector, and there’s no sign of improvement yet
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CommentHello, Ed …
Ed Miliband took to the Labour party conference stage this week and declared himself firmly on your side. “You see, when you cancel thousands of new school buildings at a stroke, it isn’t just bad for our kids, it’s bad for construction companies at a time when their order books ...
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Spending cuts: Education was just the start...
After the shock of the education spending massacre, the cutbacks will probably provoke despair rather than anger
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CommentKicking out the jams: Academies framework
If contractors were peeved at not being on the academies framework before, they’ll be shedding some tears after the latest piece of news…
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CommentWe've failed economics
You will no doubt recall the talk from David Cameron during the election about the big society that was to replace big government