All Housing articles – Page 183
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FeaturesShould the government get rid of the Code for sustainable homes?
In his blog, Good riddance to the Code for sustainable homes, Neil May, managing director of Natural Building Technologies, wrote: The world-leading, growth-fuelling, planet-saving, highly innovative sustainability programme for new build, launched by the last government as the Code for Sustainable Homes, was a disaster. Click here to read ...
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FeaturesThe Iceberg, Denmark: Jagged edge
The Iceberg - a residential scheme that owes its dramatic profile to the unceasing Scandinavian quest for light
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FeaturesA clash of housing policies?
Just when it looked as if an institutionally funded private rented sector was about to take off, a resurgent market in new homes may be about to snuff it out again
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CommentCIL could be a spanner in the works
The government is looking to the housing industry to increase supply but this will only happen if additional consented land is secured quickly
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NewsBid timetable laid out for £3.3bn housing programme
HCA outlines process for 2015-18 affordable housing programme
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NewsRedrow sees 4% build cost inflation
Housebuilder chief executive says supply chain struggling to adapt to demand
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NewsRedrow profit soars 63%
Housebuilder benefits from improving market with turnover and reservations rising
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CommentThe politics behind Help to Buy
What will become of the government’s divisive housing scheme after the 2015 General Election?
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NewsEnglish house prices break pre-recession peak
Latest government data shows strong UK price rises
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NewsGalliford Try posts 17% rise in profit
Improved margin in housebuilding business and steady performance in construction helps firm to post profit of £74m
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CommentWhy housebuilders are trying to sell you a Skoda
David Frise starts a series where he will chart his experience of how one major housebuilder failed to build the home it promised, and then staunchly refused to do anything about it
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NewsPrisk launches fresh £400m private-rented fund
The government has announced the opening of a competition for a £400m second round of the £1bn Build to Rent fund
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NewsLosses deepen at Miller Construction
Miller’s construction business has reported a deepening pre-tax loss of £2.4m over the first half of the year
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CommentRepair the damage to the private rental sector
Politicians need to do more to stimulate much-needed growth in the private rental sector
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NewsGalliford Try and Linden Homes make RIBA client shortlist
Galliford Try and Linden Homes have been shortlisted for the RIBA’s client of the year award for the Newball Be housing project in Harlow, Essex
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NewsBarratt sets 16,000 home per year target
Housebuilder Barratt is gearing up to build 16,000 homes per year as it hails an improved market
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CommentAllowable solutions are the only way to reach carbon reduction targets
In order to have zero carbon domestic buildings by 2016 and non-domestic by 2019 the CLG will have to work out the price of carbon per tonne under the framework
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CommentGood riddance to the Code for Sustainable Homes
If we rush into mass retrofit without proper research, we will make the same old mistakes with the UK’s housing