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    Gleeson's gloom

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    In a trading update, housebuilder and regeneration specialist MJ Gleeson has warned of further land writedowns in 2009 and said there was no sign of an improvement in the market.

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    Kier sees some light

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Kier has predicted an improvement in the housing market in 2010

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    Mitie profit up 11%

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Maintenance specialist Mitie has posted an 11% rise in full-year pre-tax profit to £78.4m

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    HCA's £100m council home initiative attracts first bidders

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Local authorities are lining up to bid for a £100m government scheme to fund 900 council homes

  • The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation has given planning permission for this creative quarter in Barking, including the restoration of granary buildings
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    Seeds of growth: Creative quarter in Barking

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation has given planning permission for this creative quarter in Barking, including the restoration of granary building

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    Boris blasts block

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    London mayor Boris Johnson has instructed Newham council to reject plans for the redevelopment of Queen’s market

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    Level six homes

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Metropolitan Housing Partnership has unveiled plans for six homes in Upton, Northamptonshire that will be the first to be built for sale that meet level six of the Code for Sustainable Homes.

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    Fall in landbank value

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    The accounts of 77 housing associations will be hit by drops in the value of their landbanks, says the Tenant Services Authority (TSA)

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    Enquiries rise

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    A survey by the RICS has found 41% more surveyors reported an increase in enquiries in April than a fall

  • News

    Brighton on the Wirral

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    North-west developer Neptune has submitted a planning application for the £60m second phase of its New Brighton development on the Wirral

  • Ian Fletcher, director of commercial and residential, British Property Federation
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    The right place to stand on Rugg

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    One department’s acceptance of many of the Rugg review’s recommendations for private rental housing could help form a build-to-let market, if it gets some help

  • Features

    Another expenses row: public reactions to Part L plans

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    The government is pondering a plan to force people to spend money on insulating their homes. So what do the public make of that?

  • Veissid shows his souvenir photographs in Allauch, southern France
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    Auschwitz: telling the SS I was a builder saved my life

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Sixty-five years after he entered Auschwitz, Albert Veissid tells Ben King the extraordinary tale of how his fictitious construction skills helped him survive

  • This clock tower, with its open-plan bathroom and wrought-iron stairs up to an original watchmaker’s hut, is one of the most expensive apartments
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    Sleeping beauty awakes: the St Pancras Midland Grand hotel

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    The fairy-tale castle that is the Midland Grand hotel has been asleep for a very long time. Now the arrival of the Eurostar has roused it, and it is once again to become the most stylish address in London

  • Candy & Candy’s One Hyde Park in central London features a concrete frame, with the perimeter columns cast from
    Features

    Specialist cost update

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    In the first of a new series, the Sense Cost Consultancy team examines the toll the recession is taking on prices in three sectors: substructure, superstructure and cladding

  • Features

    Tubular belge: Buro Happold's steel shopping centre

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Buro Happold’s roof for Liège’s new shopping centre takes the form of a 400m-long steel snake, which undulates to dramatically different heights. Stephen Kennett finds out how it was done

  • News

    Movers and makers

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Latest news from the world of construction product manufacture

  • Features

    Rooflights

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Roofglaze has installed more than 3,280m2 of glass monopitch skylights at Wolverton Park, a redevelopment of the former railway works at Milton Keynes

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    Plastic gutters

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Hunter Plastics has launched Ovation, a guttering system that offers a top-hung alternative to traditional bracket systems

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    Insulated roof panels

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    Kingspan’s KS1000 RW trapezoidal insulated roof and wall panel is now available in a width of 2m