All Building articles in Building Homes June 2003
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Tunnel but no light
Kent council drew guffaws of disbelief recently by suggesting its residents might like to help solve its housing shortage by upping sticks, moving to France and commuting to their jobs in England via the Channel Tunnel. Well, perhaps we should all start learning French.
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Social housing
Sheltered housing has just got a whole lot funkier with this contemporary turn on institutional design for a Housing Action Trust. Elsewhere, the social housing sector is stepping up the pressure on off-site manufacturers to meet growing demand …
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FeaturesThe dealer
Chief executive of Harvest Housing Group Ian Perry has spent three years slogging to pull off the first housing PFI pathfinder project. It's entailed some pretty deft diplomacy and some hard bargaining, but it's finally paid off. Josephine Smit tell the inside story.
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Features
New-build completions
Although planning consents were down dramatically in May, housebuilders were maintaining their build rates and the number of completions in May was over the 12,000 mark. Housing association completions, however, remained at very low levels.
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FeaturesBravo to zero
The Peabody Trust's BedZED carbon-neutral scheme has been hailed as a triumph of sustainable community design (take a bow, Bill Dunster). But what is it like actually living there? Thomas Lane met two of the residents – and took their niggles to the innovator himself …
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Planning approvals
May was a quiet month for planning approvals with fewer than 2000 consents granted, well down on last month's 3500. Essex-based Wickford Developments tops the private housebuilder table.
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In the altogether
What does a building really cost? You'll only find out if you consider life-cycle costing, says Stan Bruin, director at Monk Dunstone Associates
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Working with you, not against you
To provide affordable housing on private residential developments through section 106 planning agreements requires an effective partnership not only between housebuilders and local authorities, but increasingly between housebuilders and housing associations – the main providers and funders of affordable housing in the UK.