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NewsPukka apartments
Planning permission has been granted for the conversion of Danbury Palace, a grade II-listed manor house near Chelmsford, into a luxury apartment block.
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Urban Splash job cuts
Mancunian regeneration developer Urban Splash has confirmed it is to lose 60 of its 280 staff in the redundancy consultation it started in September.
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Mayors plan
London mayor Boris Johnson was due to launch the first draft of his revised housing strategy yesterday.
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Setback in Slough
The 1,500-home Heart of Slough regeneration project has suffered another setback as the council have decided not to relocate their head office to the scheme, according to developer Development Securities.
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in October 2008
A slight rise in social housing cannot mask the massive drop-off in the private sector
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NewsGoing Dutch
£2m Heerlijkheid Hoogvliet park and community centre outside Rotterdam in the Netherlands
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TfL to renew major framework
Consultants are preparing for the struggle to find a place on a Transport for London framework, which is expected to open for bidding in the next few weeks
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CSCS centre will offer onsite testing for London workers
A testing facility for CSCS qualifications has been established at British Land’s 870,000sq ft gross Ropemaker Place project in London.
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NewsCitywatch analysts: Consult your calculators
This was the week the mood darkened for the consultancy sector. After White Young Green’s profit warning last week, analysts whipped out their calculators and revised forecasts downwards for everyone.
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Multiplex settles a Wembley row…
The Wembley stadium row between PC Harrington and Multiplex, in which the concrete firm was claiming more than £17m, has been settled out of court.
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… and plans to break into Titan prisons
Brookfield has said it will bid for one of the three 2,500-place Titan prisons being planned by the government to cope with the rising prison population.
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NewsHome time: Duggan Morris' housing scheme
A private housing scheme in south-east London, designed by Duggan Morris Architects, has been given the green light by Lewisham council
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The €1bn tractor factory
EC Harris has been appointed cost consultant on the €1bn (£842m) redevelopment of a former tractor factory in Romania.
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Costain ponders expansion in Abu Dhabi in 2009
Costain is considering expanding its presence in the Gulf to include highways, marine, water and wastewater work – but only in Abu Dhabi.
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ConstructionSkills makes £4m loss as grant payments soar
Training body ConstructionSkills is set to suffer a deficit of about £4m this year instead of the surplus it expected, it is understood.
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NewsThe green team
Winners at the 2008 Building Sustainability Awards celebrated on Tuesday after picking up gongs for contributions to eco living.
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CommentBuilding buys potatoes…for Kanvas Interiors
If Louise Frostick were ever to meet Jarvis Cocker, it’s fair to assume they wouldn’t get on, at least not on the subject of interior decor.
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FeaturesSpecialists vs the downturn: the UK's top subcontractors
For the first time ever, we have a list of Britain’s top subcontractors, ranked by turnover and specialisation. Roxane McMeeken finds out how they’re tackling the downturn.
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NewsArt work: Joel Shapiro's public sculpture
A public sculpture by artist Joel Shapiro has been installed on the facade of 23 Savile Row in Mayfair