All articles by Chloë Stothart – Page 5
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NewsBellway customers may sue over social housing influx
‘Executive’ homeowners on Hampshire scheme complain they are living on ‘glorified council estate’
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Fears over costs derail affordable housing model
HCA plans to sell half of Gloucestershire site after deeming mutual-ownership scheme too expensive
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NewsParkinson report is 'already out of date'
The prospects for regeneration are even worse than reported in a government review last week, experts are warning
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NewsEco-town plans press on as public legal challenge fails
Protest groups consider further legal action after claim of ‘unlawful’ consultation is overruled
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NewsBanks shun £400m scheme for homebuyers
The government’s £400m scheme to help people buy new-build housing in the recession is struggling to win support from mortgage lenders
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FeaturesPlanning: what's happened to section 106?
Affordable housing, roads, health facilities, schools, even public art – all these were paid for out of developers’ section 106 contributions. But that was in the good times. Now the well’s run dry and the question everyone is asking is: where’s the money going to come from?
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Housebuilders call for more help for first-time buyers
Government bank bailout is welcomed but is not seen as enough to rescue housing market
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NewsHCA will fund land purchase to kickstart housebuilding
Homes agency offers 50% of land buying costs to housing associations that promise to build more
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NewsRegulator eyes six housing associations
Tenant Services Authority scutinises landlords hit by sales slump
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Micro CHP: Home made
Micro combined heat and power units that generate free electricity while heating your house are due to hit the UK market next year. But are they too good to be true?
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NewsHomeowner bailout: Whitehall to the rescue?
Government plans to help struggling homeowners swung into action last week, but will they make any difference?
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NewsJapanese knotweed: tackling a green menace
A housebuilder in Cornwall explains why it spent £2m getting the stubborn weed off its site
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NewsHousing agency launch: All I want for Christmas is...
Organisations from around the construction sector write their wish list for the government's new agencies
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NewsNew housing agency to boost infrastructure funds
Homes and Communities Agency sets out its investment plans
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NewsUK's largest PFI housing upgrade completed
First stage of Islington refurbishment scheme finishes
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NewsBeckett's speech: 'Long-term future rather than announcements'
Havering council's leader Michael White reacts to Margaret Beckett's speech at the Thames Gateway Forum
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News'Housing agency grasping the nettle of the Thames Gateway'
Valli van Zijl, regeneration director at Southern Housing Group, comments at the Thames Gateway Forum
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NewsTories: 'Regional bodies should not impose [housebuilding] targets'
Shadow Thames Gateway minister Stewart Jackson on regional housing targets and incentives for councils to build
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NewsTories will let councils scrap housing targets
Stewart Jackson announces plans at Thames Gateway Forum to allow councils to revisit local plans
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NewsLondon mayor considers replacement for Thames Gateway bridge
Boris Johnson asks Transport for London to look into a new crossing at Silvertown