All Supplements articles – Page 18
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NewsTake in the view
Landscaping is set to be the next big thing in sustainable design so Thomas Lane went to BRE’s Innovation Park to see how it should be done
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NewsThe rise of the west
Never mind the agonising slow-motion struggle to develop the eastern bits of the Gateway – in the west Stratford and Barking are shooting up...
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NewsLand without people
You can’t build houses without land, and 3 million houses requires an awful lot of it. So how can the public sector help their friends in the private get their hands on it? Well, the recent green paper has some ideas
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NewsSustainable housing products
The way you build a home goes half way to making it sustainable. The other half is its M&E and water harvesting. Alex Smith looks at how the homes in the BRE innovation park used new technology to tackle both
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How can we tackle the remaining non-Decent homes?
The government pledge to bring all affordable homes up to a decent standard by 2010 is an ambitious task.Many have already been improved under the Decent Homes programme, but a number of estates have yet to be tackled. Among them are the “worst of the worst” – places where it ...
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NewsUnreal city
Gordon Brown is promising 10 new eco towns, but are we buying into another illusion? (Anybody here remember the millennium villages?)
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News...and people without buses
As we know, the Thames Gateway can’t succeed without a lot of money being spent on public transport. Yes, but whose money? A recent scheme in Kent may have answered that question
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A wall, high, around the Earth
That’s something else we could do with the 33 billion bricks needed to build those 3 million extra homes. And given the decidedly chilly economic forecast, some are arguing that it’s about as likely