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Can I correct a couple of things
Your diary item Passport to Nowhere (13 April, page 31), makes a few mistakes about the proposed network of passport interview offices.
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The bigger picture
With the continuing debate over the safety of timber frame, multistorey construction has failed to move forward. Individuals are beating the drum about the benefits of one material over another, but surely fire-safe building design and appropriate construction training is more important?
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For arts sake
I read Tarek Merlin’s column (4 May, pages 34-45) with interest. Public Art South West is the regional development agency for public art but we work across the UK and have international links.
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The research is on
Regarding your leader article “An Invisible Crisis” (4 May, page 3), I agree that the government has abandoned research investment over the past 10 years.
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FeaturesAylesbury and after
When Blair made his first speech as prime minister on south London’s Aylesbury estate, it was an illustration of the immense task Labour faced in regenerating Britain’s inner cities, and a symbol of its determination to tackle it. Overleaf, we look at what it did. But first, Mark Leftly returned ...
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FeaturesFour big ideas
David Blackman looks back on the multibillion-pound initiatives that defined the era
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The Blair years
It’s always been said that construction does well under Labour, but when Tony Blair came to power in 1997 nobody would have dreamed just how well.
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FeaturesBlair on Blair
Margaret Ford, our guest editor and a woman who was close to the business end of New Labour’s policies, quizzed the prime minister on his record on the built environment
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FeaturesThe fall from Eden
The Blair years began with wonderful attractions and tube stations, continued through drab PFIs and ended with creeping paranoia, says Gus Alexander
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FeaturesWonders & blunders
With lots of lottery cash, the PFI and a millennium to celebrate, the decade has been packed with new buildings – some good, some not so good. Martin Spring looks at the Blair era’s …
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FeaturesGreat leaps forward
Taking a break from Blair, here are Alistair King’s top 10 technological developments
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NewsBrown throws weight behind planning reform
Gordon Brown has confirmed plans to set up an independent commission to decide on large infrastructure projects.
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MP links site deaths to EU workers
The steep rise in construction deaths could be linked to the expansion of the EU, according to a Labour MP.
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NewsFairground attraction
Design watchdog Cabe has praised architect Kohn Pedersen Fox’s design for the Pinnacle, the 300m City of London skyscraper that is also known as the Helter Skelter and, formerly, the DIFA Tower. Cabe said: “This proposal has the potential to be a high-quality addition to the emerging cluster of ...
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WYG beefs up energy strategy
White Young Green’s energy division, which was launched this week, is investigating the possibility of producing energy from dead cows.
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MPs vote for HIPs as RICS initiates judicial review
The government has won its battle to go ahead with the implementation of Home Information Packs (HIPs) next month.
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T&T sets up nuclear power team
Turner & Townsend has anticipated the contents of the upcoming energy white paper by establishing a nuclear working party.
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NewsStreet style
A second terrace of 14 houses has been completed in Manchester’s Millennium Community, New Islington, by architect de Metz Forbes Knight.