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NewsCouncil tax lottery: The trouble with local authorities
Local housebuilders provide local jobs and local homes for local people. So why are local authorities going out of their way to make life painful for them? Take council tax for example
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NewsStirring up apathy: construction standards for affordable housing grants
Those bidding for funds from the National Affordable Housing Programme are being asked to sign up to new construction standards. Chris Moquet wonders why so few have done so
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Homes for east London
London mayor Boris Johnson has approved plans for 750 homes in east London
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Mansell’s £3.6m win
Construction firm Mansell has won a £3.6m contract to design and build 20 homes
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Social mortgages
One of the UK’s largest housing associations will bring out its own range of mortgages
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Calls to delay the code
A Midlands-based developer is calling on the government to delay the introduction of the Code for Sustainable Homes
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NewsCity Watch: Hail and farewell
The City has had a week to digest the news that Berkeley boss Tony Pidgley has moved upstairs to become chairman and judging by the share price most reacted in a pretty sanguine fashion
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Bowmer & Kirkland boss takes 23% pay cut – to £6.7m
The highest paid director at Bowmer & Kirkland, who was formerly the best-paid boss in construction, had his pay cut 23% from £8.6m to £6.7m last year
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Mountfield reveals £1.4m profit
Mountfield Group, the Essex data centre specialist, has posted a turnover of £17.4m in its first set of results since floating on the alternative investment market in November
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NewsWhite Young Green lenders defer covenant test
Lenders to consulting engineer White Young Green have agreed to defer a covenant test to the end of July
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NewsLondon Irish
Irish architect O’Donnell + Tuomey has beaten a shortlist of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, David Chipperfield, dRMM, Feilden Clegg Bradley and 3XN to design a student centre for the London School of Economics
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Historic buildings hit by Part L
Alarm that historic buildings undergoing refurbishment will have to meet modern energy efficiency standards
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Creditors left reeling as Ashford goes under
Ashford Construction has ceased trading, leaving a string of creditors in its wake
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NewsVictory for Safer Skyline as Building wins campaign award
Building’s Safer Skyline campaign emerged victorious on Tuesday after winning the editorial campaign of the year category at the annual Periodical Publishers Association awards
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Cyril Sweett turnover soars 26%
Cyril Sweett has posted a 26% rise in turnover for the year ending 31 March 2009, from £62.7m to £78.9m. Pre-tax profit was £5.96m
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Mace bags £80m hotel deal
Mace has beaten ISG and Sisk to clinch the estimated £80m construction management contract to turn London’s Cafe Royal into a 160-room five-star hotel
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NewsHere today: Cepezed's temporary arena in The Hague
Dutch architect Cepezed has taken a leaf out of the semi-permanent 2012 Olympic stadium’s book and designed a temporary arena as part of a bid for The Hague to become European Capital of Culture in 2018
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NewsWanted: company to build £20bn of nuclear plant
RWE and E.ON ask reactor designer Westinghouse to name its construction partner for nuclear new-build programme
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Noho Square to host allotment scheme
Plans are being drawn up to turn a section of the £1bn former Candy & Candy development Noho Square in central London into allotments as part of a project dubbed “GrowHo”
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NewsC of the Chang
Construction has started on Thomas Heatherwick’s British Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010