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CommentMetamorphoses
We bring you tales of strange transformations this week as the industry tries alchemy, women turn into angels, rich people lose vast sums of money and Building’s front cover is vandalised by a reader
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NewsDoncaster’s cultural 25%: Civic and cultural quarter
Muse Developments, the regeneration arm of Morgan Sindall, has won a £300m contract to build a civic and cultural quarter in Doncaster
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Cabe report into social housing design attacked as ‘unfair’
A housing association and a developer have hit out at a report that found social housing to be no better designed than private homes
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NewsIt could have been a lot worse
The housing industry was on tenterhooks before the Budget, hoping for a solution to all its woes. Well, we didn’t quite get that, say Toby Lloyd and Anthony Brand, but it’s a start …
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Planning on the rise
Planning applications were at their highest level last month since September – 47,349 in England, Scotland and Wales, up from a low of 34,876 in December
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Retail inquiry
The communities select committee is holding an inquiry into plans to allow out-of-town retail parks to be built based on their impact rather than need
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Cumbria leaders
Murray Easton, formerly of BAE Systems, is to chair the board of Cumbria’s Barrow Vision scheme
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Westminster homes
London’s Westminster council has announced plans to build 500 homes in the borough on brownfield sites
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Right to buy ditched
The Scottish government has announced plans to end the right-to-buy policy for tenants in new-build council stock in the country
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The new Corgi
The Tenant Services Authority has reminded housing associations to ensure their gas safety engineers have signed the new register that replaced the Corgi system this month.
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Too little, too late
With reference to your article on the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) funding situation (3 April, page 24), it should also be pointed out that an aspect that contributed greatly to the overspend on many colleges was the LSC’s decision in the summer of 2004 to not approve funding for ...
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CommentWe fight the law …
Reading the story in Building on 9 April (BDP faces £4.6m claim over Wimbledon media centre), I was disappointed, but sadly not surprised, to see yet another high-profile court case involving latent defects
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We fight the law and the law wins
I was pleased to read James Bessey’s article (How to look good in public, 9 April, page 47)
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Foul-weather friends
Working as a senior procurement manager for a national housebuilder, I wholeheartedly concur with the frustration felt at how those offering trade insurance are reacting in these straitened times (17 April, page 28)
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Emirates united
Your article of “Why we are not Dubai” (17 April, page 32) took many of my comments out of context.
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Tools for the job
Tony Bingham, in his column on 3 April (page 56), made reference to “that wonderful book … A Dummies’ Guide to Risk and Shafting” to help contractors survive the recession.
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Terminological imbroglios
Robert Adam (17 April, page 22) must move in very eccentric – and exclusive – circles
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FeaturesHe's back: Lord Falconer returns to the Thames Gateway
Lord Falconer has unfinished business at the Thames Gateway – but given the recession, axed transport projects and scant progress since he worked on the scheme six years ago, can even this ‘heavy hitter’ get things rolling?
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CommentWe need better politicians
Surely efficiency savings have to be made by working with the supply chain: after all, the government has been saying just this for 10 years
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CommentComplexity theory: Interconnected disputes
How do you deal with a whole load of connected disputes that all seem to have a knock-on effect on one another?