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NewsEverton wins approval for new football stadium
Local council gives assent but public inquiry could yet be called on £400m Kirkby scheme featuring Tesco and 50,000-seater stadium
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NewsGovernment sets targets to improve construction
Goals to tackle skills shortage, climate change and health and safety
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NewsCommercial activity falls for seventh month
Three times as many commercial developers reported a fall in activity in May compared with those signalling a rise
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NewsFoster's Elephant House opens in Copenhagen
British architect opens its first zoological building in the Danish capital
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Unemployment jumps but no sign yet of slump in construction jobs
Employment in the wider economy continued to grow but there was a jump of 38,000 in the number of unemployed in the three months to April, official figures show.Rising unemployment is seen as a key factor in determining the shape of the economic slowdown and if it rises sharply may ...
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NewsGovernment releases another £1m for biomass producers
Streamlined process to help UK reach 6% electricity from biomass target
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NewsHouse sales hit 30-year low
RICS reports sales per surveyor are less than half 2002 peak, but market sentiment is slightly up on last month
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NewsTop marks for university eco-residences
Lancaster University sees its partnership with a private sector property provider pay dividends as its latest phase of student residences are awarded a BREEAM Excellent rating
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Solar powered ventilation
Monodraught lauches a solar powered natural ventilation system for use in dwellings
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NewsGleeds appoints three in Birmingham
Consultant announces new appointments to handle growing business in the Midlands
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NewsSkills shortage still hurting contractors
Industry is not doing enough to address contractors' concerns over growing skills crisis according to report
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NewsMajor expansion of rented housing required, says report
BPF says planners should count private rented homes as affordable
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TV celebrity joins march against Sussex eco-town
Ben Fogle among objectors to proposal for site near Arundel, in the latest of a series of eco-town protests
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London Festival of Architecture builds Foster design in a day
Public to put together architect’s exclusive design as part of London Festival of Architecture
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CIOB backs anti-cowboy powers for councils
Institute supports government plan to empower local authorities to halt illegal or dangerous building work
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Mervyn King warns banks on binge drinking
I have a lot of time for Mervyn King's comments. Here's one from today that I think is worth a look. It is from his speech to the British Bankers' Association on "Banking and the Bank of England"."It is often said that the role of a central bank is to ...
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Thousands of homebuyers in negative equity
Figures provided to the BBC by the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that 23,000 homebuyers took out 100% mortgages in the 12 months to March this year.With house prices as measured by HBOS (Halifax) back to the level of January last year, this means that many if not most of ...