All Housing articles – Page 286

  • Grant Shapps
    News

    Tories pledge to 'green' existing homes

    2009-10-06T12:00:00Z

    Grant Shapps says employers will help improve energy efficiency of their staff's homes under Carbon Cooperation Plan

  • Iraq
    News

    Developer at Cityscape seeks partners for Iraq schemes

    2009-10-05T14:02:00Z

    Atconz Real Estate is already building 1,565-home development in ‘new emerging market’

  • Pete Redfern, chief executive of Taylor Wimpey
    News

    Taylor Wimpey may sell North American housing arm

    2009-10-02T08:43:00Z

    Housebuilder, who is sounding out private equity firms, could use proceeds from sale of Taylor Morrison to cut £1bn debt pile

  • News

    6,000 Bolton homes

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    The Homes and Communities Agency announced plans to build 6,000 new homes in Bolton through the Transforming Estates initiative

  • News

    Flat performance at PRP as it reports turnover of £38m

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Residential and mixed-use architect PRP posted turnover of £37.6m in the 18 months to 31 March 2009

  • News

    Strata Homes renews borrowing deal as it falls £7.4m in red

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Northern housebuilder Strata Homes has fallen £7.4m into the red after land writedowns of £2.6m

  • News

    MJ Gleeson posts £54m loss

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Urban housing and regeneration specialist MJ Gleeson has made a pre-tax loss of £54.3m after land writedowns of £44.6m

  • Features

    Stanbrook Abbey: Life and soul

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    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

  • News

    Persimmon is hiring again

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Persimmon has hired 50 people to work on sites across the country in the past two months and is on the lookout for at least 20 more employees

  • Roger Humber, NFB
    News

    Housebuilder anger grows over tax crackdown

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Builders’ groups attack plan to bring all workers under PAYE, despite support elsewhere

  • The £18m Eyot Heights development is part of the second phase of Levitt Bernstein’s masterplan for Bermondsey in south London
    News

    Bermondsey grows up

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    The £18m Eyot Heights development is part of the second phase of Levitt Bernstein’s masterplan for Bermondsey in south London

  • News

    West Midlands eco-town fails sustainability checks

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    The planning inspectorate has rejected proposals to build the Middle Quinton eco-town in Stratford-upon-Avon

  • News

    More decent homes

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Inspace, Willmott Dixon’s social housing arm, has been awarded a £1.8m contract by Berneslai Homes to bring 202 homes up to the Decent Homes standard in South Yorkshire.

  • News

    South-west delay

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    The government will delay the South-west spatial strategy for the second time, after the High Court ruled that it did not carry out an adequate strategic environmental assessment in May.

  • News

    Lib Dems for housing

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    The Liberal Democrats have pledged to increase investment in new social housing and bring every social home up to the Decent Homes standard within two years if they come into power.

  • News

    Enfield refurbished

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    The London mayor and the Homes and Communities Agency have agreed £54.4m funding to refurbish more than 400 homes in Enfield

  • News

    England 'short of million homes'

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Report co-authored by ex-Barratt boss reveals how a financial crisis is becoming a housing crisis

  • News

    Major lenders return to social housing sector

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Dexia and Lloyds are among banks seeking competitive deals as lending periods treble

  • News

    Net lending positive

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Net lending turned positive for the first eight months of 2009, totalling £5.5bn

  • David Birkbeck
    News

    Put money in their purses

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Allowing councils to pocket the taxes from the sale of new homes would ensure they are much more supportive of development