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NewsFruitless: Make's Cherry Orchard faces planning refusal
Croydon council officials frown on architect’s application for Menta's £500m Cherry Orchard Road regeneration scheme
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NewsGovernment’s bid to boost mortgages ‘is not working’
Committee of MPs hits out at policy ‘failure’ on flagship housing market revival scheme
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HCA to crack down on environmental standard cheats
The Homes and Communities Agency will force builders to go back and improve new homes if they don’t meet the environmental standards claimed
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NewsMcCarthy & Stone plans £500m land buying spree
Retirement housebuilder McCarthy & Stone plans to buy a site a week as part of a land-buying drive
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New chairs for RDAs
The South East regional development agency has hired Rob Douglas and the North West RDA has hired Robert Hough
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Housing for the elderly
Proposals for housing to help the ageing population will be made by a group of experts assembled by the government
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NewsCity watch: Ghost train
This week Jarvis wrote another episode of what one observer called “the longest-running soap opera in construction history”.Richard Entwistle, chief executive of the rail specialist, announced he would step down in September and the firm dropped £6.3m into the red after being hit by redundancy costs associated with losing 450 ...
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NewsThe tortoise and the Heron
On Thursday, Gerald Ronson, chief executive of Heron International, and Lee Polisano, president of architect Kohn Pedersen Fox, placed a tortoise shell in the foundations of the £242m Heron Tower in the City of London
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NewsTube Lines considers bid for Metronet lines
Tube Lines is considering bidding to take on the upgrade and maintenance of one or more lines previously under the control of the failed Metronet consortium
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Liverpool crane’s base ‘not suitable’
Questions are being asked over the suitability of the base of the tower crane that collapsed onto a block of flats in Liverpool last Monday
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Contractors dismiss need for gangmaster licences
Contractors are widely opposing recommendations in a government report on construction deaths that gangmaster licensing rules should be extended to include the industry
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NewsDecision on efficiency of zero-carbon homes delayed until end of year
News comes as housing minister outlines further details of definition of zero carbon
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NewsODA top salaries revealed
Chief executive David Higgins earned £537,000 in the last year, after defering half of ‘performance related pay’ to later date
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NewsRIBA launches new scheme to help students
HostPractice allows architecture students and graduates access to national online network of practices
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Hill has new vice president for Eastern Europe
Hill employee promoted to manage Eastern Europe and the CIS Countries
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NewsChandlerKBS scoops £4.5m People's Bridge contract
Consultant is cost adviser on pedestrian bridge as part of the £1bn International Sports Village scheme in Wales
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NewsConstruction blacklist boss fined just £5k
Private detective who traded details of 3,213 workers for profit given 'wholly inadequate' penalty
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NewsFour sites chosen for eco-towns
Sites in Hampshire, Cornwall, Norfolk and Oxfordshire will go forward for full public consultation and local planning approval
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NewsStep-by-step safety
So the first stepladder leads up to the mobile platform, then you have your second stepladder on top of that – clever!
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NewsThe eco-towns saga: how not to win friends
Just how did the clever idea of a showcase for building green communities turn into a policy exercise of such embarrassment?