All Building articles in Building Homes February 2004

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  • Features

    Next up

    2004-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Commercial developers are limbering up, getting ready to take on the residential market – and if housebuilders don't watch out, they could soon find themselves on the ropes wondering what hit them.

  • Comment

    Guarding your patch

    2004-02-26T00:00:00Z

    I can imagine how some of our readers will react to this month’s cover feature on the move by commercial developers into the residential sector. Some housebuilders will be outraged at the sheer brass neck of the Lipton family and their suggestion that housebuilding is so inefficient that it will ...

  • Features

    Expert eye

    2004-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Show homes will be your shop window, says Andrew Smith, Berkeley Homes' first head of landscape design. A chartered landscape architect with a masters in landscape ecology, design and management, Smith was previously a director at landscape consultancy Woodhams.

  • Features

    Factfile: February 2004

    2004-02-26T00:00:00Z

    The Christmas season didn't do much to dent Scottish planners' workload, with a total of 1244 units approved in December. In the housing associations table, Garston Urban Village scored a major approval, and Persimmon and George Wimpey made headway in the private sector.Approvals into the new year dwindled virtually across ...