All Building articles in Building Homes September 2004
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News
Seven in frame for New Islington
Conran and Partners, de Rijke Marsh and shedkm are among the architects on the competition shortlist for a 29-acre Millennium Community in East Manchester.
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Features
Precious heat
Up until now, housebuilders have responded to demands that they improve the energy efficiency of new homes by simply adding insulation. Next year, they are going to have to do much more …
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Features
Expert eye
What are developers cooking up in kitchens? James Pilling, senior designer at interior specialist Connections in Design, looks at the growing importance of kitchen design and its relationship with modern lifestyle
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Comment
Doorstepping
We has swapped the hurly-burly of management at Berkeley Homes for the post of managing director at Silver Homes, a privately owned housebuilder developing just 20-50 upmarket homes a year in Sussex, Surrey and Kent
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CommentStand and deliver
Up until two weeks ago, we thought that 150,000 additional households were being formed every year.
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Features
New-build completions
The housebuilding industry has been hard at work over the summer, maintaining steady completion levels, but daily sales dipped in June and July. Thank heavens they picked up in August. Maybe the downturn won’t happen after all …
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Buyer demand
SmartNewHomes reports that London bore the brunt of the summer slowdown with a fall in demand of 8.5%. That figure almost exactly matches the rise that Wales enjoyed. Meanwhile urban exiles continue to flock to the South-west
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Planning approvals
Approvals have grown significantly in London and East Anglia over the summer. In Wales, however, there is little evidence planners are responding to warnings of undersupply
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News
Government in race to attract 7,500 Home Inspectors
The government is staging a trade show to help it attract the 7,500 Home Inspectors it needs before 2007.