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Regeneration needs you!
Regeneration staff are in desperately short supply, which means employers must pay top salaries to get them to enlist. Karen Glaser reports on the PSD Group/Regenerate survey. Illustration by Max Schindler
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Innovation
Renewable energy technologies can be expensive. So here’s the lowdown on grants to help you buy them.
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Where next for social housing?
Ruth Kelly has ordered a review of the role of social housing in the 21st century. Jon Rouse, head of the Housing Corporation, points the way
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What’s working housing innovation
The first development is a millennium community with a standard-setting agenda. The second has experimented with design and won a string of architectural awards. The third has attained top environmental scores in EcoHomes. What lessons can be learned from these innovative homes?
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Don’t be square
Large-scale masterplans have to design in flexibility for the long term, whether that means allowing for change of use or turning public spaces into World Cup match screening venues.
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The hunt for cash
Public sector housing and regeneration budgets look almost certain to be squeezed next year, which means cash is going to have to be found outside the Treasury. Luckily, councils won’t have far to look – they’re sitting on great wads of the stuff.
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All power to the mayor
The way we run England’s towns and cities is on the verge of a dramatic overhaul. Sir Michael Lyons is publishing his long-awaited review of councils’ powers and funding before the end of the year, while the government is due to publish a white paper on the subject.
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‘One day a £1m house will be sold on this site’
If ever there was a place ripe for regeneration it must be the former Ravenscraig steelworks. Sonia Soltani looks at the dreams for Scotland’s largest brownfield site – and the legal challenge that might prove a nasty wake-up call
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FeaturesThats The Way
Martin Spring reports from The Way, Lovell’s vast, highly sustainable and distinctly eye-catching panellised housing project for New East Manchester
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FeaturesWhat to specify: flooring
Specifiers hunting for flooring systems that improve the acoustic performance of buildings,insulation systems that don’t require purlins and environmentally-friendly timber homes need look no further
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FeaturesH+H Celcon: Not so set in their ways
Danish-born, Kent-based H+H Celcon is a £70m-turnover concrete manufacturer that specialises in aircrete blocks but has now launched a structural housing system.
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FeaturesWhat to remember: £60,000 homes
A new government report has examined the lessons learned so far from the £60,000 housing competition. Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg considers the implications for specifiers
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