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NewsPrescott calls on Europe to deliver sustainable communities
Government will use UK presidency of EU to encourage the delivery of sustainable communities across member states.
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NewsMinisters unhappy with cost of Paddington hospital
The Department of Health is concerned about rising budget says the Evening Standard.
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Six developers make Lawley shortlist
English Partnership's developer partner for the urban extension to Telford will be chosen in May.
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NewsParkwood snaps up green waste firm
Ecological Sciences will add £1.3m turnover to Parkwood’s new green waste business.
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NewsIslington skyscraper wins planning consent
Islington council approves a 35-storey residential tower overlooking a canal basin off the City Road.
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Cash-strapped Jarvis closes key deals
Troubled support services group finalises Tube Lines sale and refinances uncompleted construction schemes
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NewsHadid wins key Olympic job
Star architect wins aquatics centre competition for London’s Olympic bid
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Hatfield crash “disaster waiting to happen”
Corporate manslaughter case against Balfour Beatty bosses starts today
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NewsBenson+Forsyth win £25m design competition
Architect beats shortlist including Shedkm and Rick Mather to design a building in Nottingham’s trendy Lace Market district.
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NewsNorman Foster honoured as Great Briton
Lord Foster is awarded a Great Briton Award for his outstanding British Achievement in the Creative Industries.
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NewsKingston University wins £3m grant for sustainability centre
Kingston will use government money to teach sustainability to built environment students.
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BBC architect to revamp north bank of the Thames
Ken Livingstone invites MacCormac Jamieson Prichard to draw up plans for 2 km promenade to rival South Bank.
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NewsDetectives probe police charity boss home extension
Former head of police charity in North Yorkshire arrested as detectives examine local builder’s paperwork.
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Freedom of Information Act set to expose bid rigging
Clients and contractors may be obliged to divulge tendering data that could leave them open to legal challenges.
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The sustainable communities summit 2005
In the run-up to Prescott's summit next week: a group of regeneration experts ignite the debate, the 60k house challenge is put to the test and what the PFI did for a grim Manchester estate
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The race to build the £60k houses
The government has come up with a startling solution to the barriers to home ownership: to use public land and industrial production to build 60,000 £60,000 houses. Housebuilders are currently competing to design the prototype. We find out how it’s supposed to work.
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The sustainable communities summit 2005
Prescott and three other Cabinet colleagues are to convene with 2000 housebuilders, architects and public sector experts in Manchester next week to take stock of how the £22bn sustainable communities plan is faring.