All articles by Adrian Barrick
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News
Housebuilders face shock land tax in Budget
Whitehall hints that Brown may impose levy on increase in land value triggered by planning permission
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News
The McAlpines in court: An exercise in self-preservation
The McAlpines jealously guard their privacy. When Building sought to profile the clan in 1999, we were only able to communicate through an exchange of hand-written letters.
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Comment
Victims of the system
It's been a bad week for the paperclip posse. On Tuesday, the government and the Tories called for a mass cull of civil servants.
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NewsBAA sacks T5 groundwork firm over financial concerns
Geofirma gets boot because of 'accounting irregularites' as ductwork supplier Hotchkiss faces axe over pay deal
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Comment
Immigration requires regulation
The Morecambe Bay tragedy has swung the spotlight back onto illegal immigrants in construction.
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News
HBF warns Barker not to 'rig the market' for land
Housebuilders fear commercial developers and quangos will get 'special treatment' to boost competition
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Comment
Guilt by association
Contractors may feel a strange empathy this week with those at the centre of the Hutton inquiry.
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Comment
You’ll pay for this
Why are construction leaders so reluctant to join the political fray over tuition fees?
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Comment
An affair of the heart …
How rich for journalists, of all people, to be lecturing others on the perils of boozing and bingeing. Well, yes, all right.
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Comment
Back from the dead
Just when it appeared to be gently ebbing away, construction's strategic forum has sprung back to life.
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Comment
Welcoming our guest workers
David Blunkett's imperious asylum policy – outlined in the Queen's Speech – may have profound implications for construction.
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Comment
Too little, too late
"Four Pads" Prescott is in a pickle over housing again – and not just with his domestic arrangements.
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Comment
Pressing on with the PFI
The tiresome ideological struggle over the PFI resurfaced at the Labour conference (see news).
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News
Housebuilders face 'wealth tax' on high-value schemes
Treasury-sponsored housing review looks at replacing section 106 agreement with tax on developments.
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Comment
Desperate measures
Two important themes are emerging from Kate Barker’s inquiry into why we build so few houses.