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Developer admits defeat over wharf at London Docklands
Developer Capital and Provident has abandoned a plan to build homes on a derelict stretch of waterfront in London’s Docklands.
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Prices to rise 1%
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) predicts that house prices will rise 1% over the next year, and lending will fall.
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Wandsworth tiff
London mayor Ken Livingstone has accused Wandsworth council of providing inadequate levels of affordable rented housing in its local plan.
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Moving out
Developers in and around Bristol are looking for sites in secondary, suburban locations as prime city-centre sites have been snapped up, according to a Savills report on the housing market.
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£510m planning grant ‘must not be used for infrastructure’
Ministers have warned councils that they must spend their share of the £510m planning grant to beef up their planning departments rather than on infrastructure.
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NewsNo Rovers Return here
Lovell has started work on a terraced house scheme designed to update Manchester’s “Coronation Street” image.
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NewsFrom the team that gave us the Gherkin …
Skanska was this week officially confirmed as the chosen contractor for the Heron Tower in the City of London, after it provided pre-construction services on the project.
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Credit crunch hits Taylor Wimpey’s reservation rates
Taylor Wimpey, the UK’s largest housebuilder, has warned that the recent financial turbulence is hitting reservation rates.
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Super supermarkets
The Competition Commission has called for a shake-up of the planning system for supermarket developments.
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Olympics cover
The Olympic Delivery Authority has appointed Royal Sun Alliance and Munich Re Group lead insurers for its project-wide insurance of venues and infrastructure for the 2012 Olympics in London.
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Tax errors
The Court of Appeal ruled that the Inland Revenue owed a “duty of care” to a builder who waited three months to get a subcontractor’s tax certificate, establishing it can be held liable for administrative errors.
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NewsKing of the swingers
Construction began last week on the £3m Xstrata Treetop Walkway in Kew Gardens, west London, designed by Marks Barfield Architects.
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Former southern director returns to Laing O’Rourke
Steve Hollingshead, the former southern director of Laing O’Rourke, is to rejoin the company he left two years ago.
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Metronet nabs Bechtel man
Metronet has drafted in a programme management expert from Bechtel to review its problem tube station contracts.
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Skanska boss makes sudden departure
Skanska has abruptly parted company with Simon Hipperson, the head of its PPP division, after differences over what the company called his “leadership style”.
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NewsRip it up and start again
The tallest building on the Olympic park site was demolished this Tuesday.
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Off-site renewables
The UK Green Building Council is to consider accrediting off-site renewables so that they can be incorporated into the official definition of zero-carbon homes.
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Chesterton acquisition
Property consultant Chesterton has bought Vanns and Jones, a building surveyor.
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Firms in deep water
The Office of Fair Trading has rapped two renewables firms for misleading consumers on the performance of solar water heating systems.
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B for Bother
Manchester council is suing the architect Thomas Heatherwick over his B of the Bang sculpture, which requires remedial work.