All articles by Carl Brown – Page 6
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NewsPersimmon increases profit despite £25m write-off for investment in failed modular developer TopHat
Housebuilder increases homes completion target for coming year
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News‘Ministers must solve skills gaps in construction if they want to drive growth’, MP tells inaugural Good Employer Guide Live event
Liberal Democrat’s Sarah Olney says government has to focus on needs of industry
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NewsApprenticeship funding reforms must help SMEs, say leading industry figures
Leading figures from contractor Sir Robert McAlpine and consultancy Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) have called on the government to simplify apprenticeships funding
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NewsDrees & Sommer buys engineering consultancy
Deal means German firm’s UK arm now has 300 employees
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NewsThe government’s response to the Grenfell Inquiry: Key proposals at a glance
Ministers have today published their long-awaited plan in response to the inquiry into the Grenfell fire, which claimed 72 lives in 2017. Here is a guide to the key proposals.
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NewsMore safety sign-off hold-ups as 500-home student resi scheme delayed by a year
Specialist developer Unite again raises concerns over amount of time jobs are taking to get gateway 2 approval under new laws
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NewsNew legislation on £400bn public procurement spend comes into force
Major shake-up of the way public bodies purchase goods and services starts today
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NewsPeabody and Hill strike £116m deal with BTR operator as part of 3,500-home Dagenham scheme
Goodstone Living will own and operate 360 homes on former Ford stamping plant site
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NewsWider roll out of CPO reforms could slow housing development, warns HBF
Housebuilders’ body warns a ‘general direction’ to remove ‘hope value’ for whole categories of sites to speed up development would have the opposite effect
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NewsSpringfield sells off plots to Barratt Redrow and plans to switch focus to homes in northern Scotland for green energy workers
Scottish housebuilder eyes expected demand from thousands of workers needed in region
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NewsHousing association to demolish Bristol flats built by collapsed contractor
Firm was chasing ISG Pearce for £4m to carry out repair work
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NewsHousing group calls for action over ‘inconsistent’ road adoption delays and rising costs
HBF says conflicting approaches by local authorities ‘make it impossible to plan schemes’
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NewsBullish Barratt Redrow upgrades full-year profit forecast after jump in interim numbers
Buoyant housebuilder says last summer’s merger will generate an extra £10m of cost savings
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NewsGovernment announces extra £300m for affordable homes
MHCLG says latest cash will deliver 2,800 homes, with half for social rent
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NewsInterim profit halves at Gleeson despite number of homes it has sold going up
Housebuilder says it remains on course to meet full-year expectations
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NewsBellway confident of growth as it increases completions 12%
Housebuilder says it is on track to build 8,500 completions this year
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NewsBuilding to publish its Good Employer Guide 2025 next month
Exclusive research will be officially revealed at the Good Employer Guide Live event on 6 March, join us to find out the latest in employment best practice across construction, housing and architecture
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NewsRayner still ‘determined’ to hit 1.5 million homes target as she announces plan to digitise home buying
Housing secretary ‘not giving up’ on manifesto pledge as project announced with Land Registry to ensure easier data-sharing
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NewsGrey belt policy ‘unlikely to have significant impact’ on housebuilding, Lords committee finds
Lord Moylan warns Angela Rayner that policy has been “rushed and incoherent”
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NewsCrest Nicholson sinks to £144m loss as firm counts cost of fire safety provisions
New boss Martyn Clark carries out review of business as firm warns of scenario in which it could breach its lending agreements