All Building articles in Building Homes February 2003

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  • Features

    Village People

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Can you design a community? Yes, but it takes a lot more than simply a construction process, as both Philip Davies of developer Linden and resident Marie Hart have learned at an urban village in Surrey.

  • Features

    Nothing by halves

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Mayor Ken Livingstone's draft London plan, which aims to make 50% of homes on new residential sites affordable, is coming under public scrutiny next week. Developers will be going all out to limit the damage.

  • Features

    Get it right - doors and windows

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    It seems problems with windows in new homes are all too common. Zurich Building Guarantees’ annual Customer First Survey of new homebuyers showed that 43.6% of respondents had problems with the windows in their new homes in 2002. Water penetration through the building envelope comes high on the list of ...

  • News

    Products - Doors and windows

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    How's this for an opening to a doors and windows special: a Victorian east London pub converted into affordable homes that combines traditional timber windows with contemporary aluminium

  • Features

    Ground control

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Ten years ago, development was all about churning out yuppie flats; today the ground has shifted to affordable homes. Josephine Smit meets Andrew Wiseman, chief executive of Telford Homes and a master of both territories.

  • Features

    New-build completions

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    NHBC-registered new-build private and housing association completion figures for January 2003 show the bulk of activity is in the South-east. But overall private completions are already down on the same month last year.

  • Comment

    Homes comfort

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Whenever housebuilders meet nowadays, they can be seen staring intently at one another and muttering, "this is going to be an interesting year". Never ones to talk down business, what they are really saying is: life is pretty damn difficult. The industry is facing more demands than ever before, with ...

  • Comment

    Why don't we build more houses?

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Despite record growth in house prices, the number of new homes we build continues to decline. Housing output per head of population in the UK is lower than in any other major western economy. This trend is unlikely to reverse in the next few years. It is the ...

  • Features

    Planning approvals

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Welcome to Factfile, Homes' new data-packed section.

  • Features

    All in the Finish

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    In a month's time the Council of Mortgage Lenders is bringing in a new rule that means homeowners only get their mortgage when the home is complete. Josephine Smit reports on the impact it will have on housebuilders' deadlines