All Building articles in Building Homes March 2003

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  • Features

    Our trends in the North

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Huddersfield may not be the first place to come to mind when you think of loft apartments. But a live–work scheme for artists opened by Places for People is proving that studio-style spaces can work in Yorkshire as well as Manhattan

  • Features

    Miller's tale

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Tim Hough, Miller Homes' new managing director, plans to expand into the South-east and build on the company's reputation for quality and care. But is it the firm's results that are giving him the best reason to be cheerful?

  • Features

    Thinking of going prefab?

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    … then this is the place to start. Homes brought in cost consultant MDA to answer your frequently asked questions

  • Features

    Get it right: Factory-produced systems

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    The Egan report highlighted the need for off-site manufacture to increase the quality of the end product and to reduce programme times.

  • Features

    New-build completions

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    NHBC-registered new-build private and housing association completion figures for February 2003 show activity is up across the board on last month, and overall private completions have redressed the balance after January’s year-on-year fall. All figures are supplied by NHBC.

  • Features

    Do houses that are built in a factory have to end up looking like this…?

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    The trouble with factory-built houses is that they look as if they were built in a factory. But off-site manufacture is not incompatible with sophisticated design, as the coming generation of prefab homes will demonstrate.

  • Comment

    Let's be Bold

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Britain is full of boring-looking, traditionally built houses, so what's so bad about an equally boring-looking house that has been built in a factory?

  • Features

    Planning approvals

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    The West Midlands tops the regional breakdown of planning approvals.

  • Comment

    Alphabet soup

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    If you want to be sure your scheme doesn't get into trouble, make sure the wording of any planning agreement is clear

  • Comment

    We’re all key workers now

    2003-03-28T00:00:00Z

    The good news is that the government's communities plan announced an overall increase in investment in affordable housing for 2003/4 and beyond, with at least £1bn set aside for key worker housing over three years.