Housing Focus – Page 12
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FeaturesCost model update: Small projects
Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon revisits affordable homes, extra-care homes and nursing homes to find out what effect changes in regulations and tender price deflation have had on the sums
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FeaturesStanbrook Abbey: Life and soul
Nuns may not be the most demanding of clients, but apparently they do expect a building to be ‘transcendental’. Dan Stewart took a pilgrimage to Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Stanbrook Abbey in the Yorkshire moors to find out what that means
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FeaturesHackney-sur-Mer: Levitt Bernstein’s Queensbridge Quarter
Dalston, a less-than-glorious corner of east London, is beginning to look as if it might be able to tempt well-heeled Londoners to give it a go – thanks in part to Levitt Bernstein’s Mediterranean-styled Queensbridge Quarter
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FeaturesHousing associations write off £174m
Falling land and house prices mean 40% more is knocked off associations' assets than last year
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FeaturesGrosvenor Waterside by Make: Don’t tell Charles …
Within spitting distance of the notorious Chelsea Barracks site is this startlingly modern block of flats by Make Architects. Yet, so far, the good burghers of Belgravia haven’t uttered a word against it. And nor has you-know-who. What’s going on?
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FeaturesRefurbishment funding: A long way from home
Assessing the once mighty £21bn Decent Homes programme’s past achievements, and its increasingly uncertain future
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FeaturesDurkan to build £17m green flats for London key workers
Development of 145 apartments for Network Housing Group will meet level four of the Code for Sustainable Homes
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FeaturesWinners revealed at 61st Housing Design Awards
Top prize goes to Totnes scheme built by Galliford Try subsidiary in collaboration with the council and a community group
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FeaturesLovells wins £24m housing refurbishment contract
Morgan Sindall division wins deal to revamp 2,200 homes for Three Oaks Housing in Wiltshire
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FeaturesTellytubby land: BedZed revisited
Peabody’s BedZed was the housing scheme that first got everyone talking about zero-carbon living. But is it all that it was cracked up to be?
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FeaturesHouse prices stay steady in June
Values remain at May level thanks to restricted supply and rising demand, with sale volumes up 80% since January
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FeaturesDan's Den: Libeskind goes flatpack
If you’ve got a couple of million euros you don’t know what to do with, why not buy your own Libeskind-designed house? Dan Stewart looks at what you get for your money
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FeaturesNeighbours: Lovell and Tarmac on reaching code level four or above
The house on the left aims to meet code level four, but next door they’ve got even loftier pretensions. Stephen Kennett reports on goings-on at a site in Nottingham
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FeaturesStone Alone: Crest Nicholson's boss on surviving a crisis
Crest Nicholson was knocked sideways by the disintegration of the housing market and the failure of the global banking system, and for 10 months chief executive Stephen Stone shouldered the weight of a collapsing company. Tom Bill found out what it took to keep smiling
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FeaturesThe peasant's revolt this ain't: Chelsea vs the barracks
This gang of Chelsea residents is on the cusp of pulling off a very English coup. Emily Wright met their ringleaders
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FeaturesOperation Hip: Igloo's Bermondsey Square
Bermondsey Square, the centrepiece of a £60m regeneration project in south-east London, is intended to seduce the young and trendy with its take on inner-city living
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FeaturesSleeping beauty awakes: the St Pancras Midland Grand hotel
The fairy-tale castle that is the Midland Grand hotel has been asleep for a very long time. Now the arrival of the Eurostar has roused it, and it is once again to become the most stylish address in London
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FeaturesEdward Cullinan's Stonebridge estate: pride of place
Edward Cullinan’s mixed-use Hillside Hub completes the overhaul of a north-west London estate that John Major once avoided for fear of being shot. Dan Stewart finds it a reformed character
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What it costs: Heat pumps
They are amazingly efficient, but setting up a ground source heat pump may be tricky if you haven’t considered all the factors. Peter Mayer of BLP Insurance gives us the lowdown
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FeaturesNo biomass, no turbines, no solar panels. Is Passivhaus the way to zero carbon?
The German Passivhaus standard is winning admirers in the UK, many of whom argue that its simple approach to low-energy building is far more practical than the Code for Sustainable Homes