All Archive Titles articles – Page 236
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Plenty of room in here for housing
Contrary to popular belief, there’s a vast amount of brownfield land out there with the potential to be built on – the windfall sites. Oddly, though, there seems to be little enthusiasm to exploit it.
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What’s going on in government
Given the imminent election of a new leader of the Labour party, it is unlikely that the government will make any significant policy announcements until the end of June.
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Zero is a zero game
The government’s plan to build zero carbon homes is a commendable response to its target to reduce carbon emissions, but to demand that all homes be built in this way is itself not sustainable (April, page 6).
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The purr-fect fit
How can flat hunters judge if the place has enough space to swing a cat in it? A new website will show exactly how much swing room they’ll get. Just get the mouse onto it
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'These young people know people with knives and guns, and thug life is thug life. But they still sit down and talk with each other'
In a special photographic essay photographer Michael Grieve visits the Defending Da Hood youths who are persuading other kids to turn away from the gangs.
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Cleaning up
Most developers wouldn’t touch contaminated land with a barge pole – just too risky. Enter the specialist companies who see an opportunity to turn muck into brass by cleaning up the sites and selling them on.
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Persuading the city
Stuart Macdonald’s feature on attracting City financiers to invest in regeneration is on the money, as it were (April, page 12). There is no bigger prize in our game than persuading the City that regeneration is respectable.
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Upfront Our last chance to change?
We need a much more radical response to the challenges of climate change, says Zenna Atkins
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CDCs — The get up and go
City development companies – the latest new quango – are the perfect opportunity for everyone to move jobs. Just wait until the music starts…
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Will our next PM take on the buy-to-let investors?
“The aim is affordable housing.” So said Gordon Brown emphatically in the policy speech that effectively launched his bid for leadership of the country.
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Birmingham’s dark secret
There’s a problem with affordable housing in Birmingham – but nobody wants to talk about it. Stuart Macdonald reports on how the city council’s attempts to meet the decent homes target are creating an uncertain future
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This month: the art of bidding for Euro cash, eco-towns, plus, Tarzan takes a swing at Lyons
The nine English regional development agencies were due to meet with the European Investment Bank this month to discuss how to bid for up to 90bn euros under a new investment scheme known as “Jessica”.
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Got any nice travel plans coming up?
More homes + more traffic = potential gridlock and damage to the environment. The solution could be residential travel plans.
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Housing sector revolts against ‘damaging’ buy-to-let landlords
Sales to investors banned or restricted on growing number of schemes
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Where affordable housing is needed
As the social housing world settles in next month for its annual bash at the Chartered Institute of Housing conference in Harrogate, it may want to spare a moment to think about the following: the average annual cost of renting social housing in the spa town is £3,390 while the ...
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Kevin Williamson on the new housing advice unit
Kevin Williamson is chief executive of the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit (NHPAU), an independent body, funded by DCLG, which launches in London on 7 June.
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Leap of faith? Or act of folly?
What’s the difference between a bungee jumper and a housing association going into housebuilding? Answer: the bungee jumper has a large rubber band stopping him from hitting the ground – the housing association doesn’t. As more RSLs enter the housebuilding market, David Blackman asks if the risk is too great
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Zero carbon homes — 2016 here we come
The government target that all new homes be zero carbon by 2016 means huge changes ahead on technology, tax liability and planning policy. Campbell Hooper Solicitors outline what you need to know…
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100,000 reasons to get the point
New Growth Points were brought in promising to deliver up to 100,000 extra homes and many more new jobs over the next 10 years. So how do they work and what kind of reception have they had so far?
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Win tickets to the BSJ golf championship
Don’t miss out on an opportunity to take part in the EMC/BSJ Building Services Golf Championship.