All Housing articles – Page 383
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NewsKate Barker speaks out on buy-to-let housing crisis
Housing and planning expert tells conference that investors are forcing out first-time buyers
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FeaturesMasdar: Nice spot for a zero-carbon city...
For his next trick, Norman Foster is going to turn a patch of desert in Abu Dhabi into the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city. Martin Spring finds out how
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NewsExperts offer mixed verdict on planning white paper
Housebuilders, lawyers and agents air caveats about some proposals, while praising other
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NewsHIP energy assessors wait months for final accreditation
Qualified assessors are still waiting for approval as original HIP start date passes
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NewsThe art of building profit and homes
Private equity bids for housebuilders in the 1990s lead to the break up of perfectly good businesses - hopefully this won't be the case in 2007
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Keepmoat reported to be considering 3i sale
Social housing builder would be valued at over £800m if sold to the private equity group 3i
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NewsTaylor Woodrow shareholders approve Wimpey merger
Proposed £5bn merger now only needs Wimpey sharholder approval as owners of Taylor Woodrow shares approve deal
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NewsRICS: Kelly’s HIPs speech misled parliament
RICS denies Ruth Kelly's claim that it has dropped its judicial review of the HIPs implementation
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Gateway homes ‘must be built twice as quickly’
Audit office says rate of housebuilding must increase 100% to hit 2016 target of 160,000
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NewsHalpern dropped from East End scheme
Barratt has replaced architect Halpern with Allies and Morrison as the designer of a 900-home scheme in London after pressure from London’s new architectural watchdog.
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NewsGovernment unveils fast-track planning reforms
The government this week provided the construction industry with the practical detail it had been waiting for on planning reform.
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NewsGreen light for 1800-home scheme opposite Dome
SOM and BDP architects behind ambitious scheme at Leamouth Peninsula
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NewsHIPs to be delayed until 1 August
Ruth Kelly tells MPs that the start date for Home Information Packs will be delayed by two months
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NewsPlanning to be abolished for extensions
White paper aims to encourage councils to focus on major projects by removing planning requirements for minor alterations
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NewsMPs to vote on scrapping HIPs
The House of Commons will today vote on a Conservative motion to abandon the introduction of Home Information Packs on June 1
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NewsRICS to take government to court over HIPs
RICS starts Judicical Review proceedings against DCLG for failure to carry out proper consultation on HIPs
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NewsRate rises fail to dampen house market growth
Interest rate rises fail to stem steep housing market growth but RICS says confidence in market is lowest since September 2005
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NewsHIPs 'unworkable' says RICS
June implementation is unworkable says RICS as it calls for emergency meeting with MPs
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NewsTreasury ponders return of new town corporations
Taskforce will work up proposals that may include post-war-style development bodies