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Do we need more housing?
Your leader (29 June, page 3) called for a national hearts-and-minds campaign to explain the need for extra housing. It might help if you first questioned whether there really is such a need.
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Quite a bind
Your last editorial had a number of good suggestions for increasing the rate of housebuilding. I have another – easier removal of covenants restricting development. I have a large site adjacent to my house that has planning permission for a detached house. My neighbours have a covenant that restricts each ...
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Work jollies
I was interested to read your recent Building Buys a Pint with the networking organisation, Forum for the Built Environment (29 July, page 34-35). The topics ranged from the smoking ban to the hirsute nature of women in property and construction.
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CommentThe TA needs you …
Great article about the Territorial Army and the insight into what it offers. I recently joined and wish I had done so years ago.
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FeaturesWater fight
The Nirah freshwater aquarium will provide vital scientific research and – at four times the size of the Eden Project – is set to be a huge tourism boost for Bedford. So why has it had to endure an almighty struggle to get planning consent?
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CommentTurning the tables
Things naturally fall apart, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun sticking them back together, as we demonstrate in many different ways this week, from dips in the briney to wooden hats
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NewsThe plight of the ‘new poor’
Here are 10 measures that we must implement if young people are to have any hope of buying homes
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NewsA green oasis
A team including consulting engineer Buro Happold has won a competition to design a government district in Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
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CommentGordon Brown vs the housing crisis
There wasn’t too much we hadn’t heard before in Gordon Brown’s preview of the next Queen’s speech, and it was pretty short on detail, but the message came over loud and clear: if his predecessor’s top priorities were education, education, education, his are housing, housing and housing.
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NewsHackney rebuffed
Hackney council looks like it has been defeated in its attempt to prevent superdense development spreading to the east London borough.
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English Partnerships to insist on bigger homes
English Partnerships (EP) is to require that houses built on its sites offer greater space.
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NewsDensity backlash
Anti-superdensity feeling increased last week after Islington council in north London vetoed plans for a 39-storey residential block on the outskirts of the City.
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Park Hill revamp
Developer Urban Splash has revealed detailed plans for its £146m redevelopment of the Park Hill estate in Sheffield.
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RIBA vs Arts Council
The RIBA is to meet with the Arts Council over its decision to drop its subsidy for Architecture Week.
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Berks business park
McBains Cooper has won a contract to cost manage a £100m business park in Berkshire for client Sergo.
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Bluestone on fire
Bluestone has won a £46m deal to construct a fire station and a police and fire headquarters in Poole in Dorset, and another fire station in Poundbury, also in Dorset.
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Eco action plan
Trade bodies including the Institution of Civil engineers have announced an action plan called the Sustainable Development Strategy to help meet sustainability targets.
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Derwent footbridge
Dean & Dyball Construction is to design and build a £3.3m footbridge over the River Derwent in Derby as part of a £3.8m scheme by Derby City Partnership.