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CommentA house up a well-known creek
If your home played host to the contents of your neighbours’ toilets 17 times in eight years, you might expect the law to offer you some redress. Remarkably, as one London householder found out, it does nothing of the sort
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NewsEco-town winners to be announced by March
Sustainability consultants claim six-month timetable for choosing winning bidders for Gordon Brown’s 10 new towns is unrealistic
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NewsGreen light for £38m city academy
Kensington and Chelsea council grant planning permission for London’s most expensive school
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Only 12 BSF schools out of 100 to complete by March
Delays and lack of skills in local authorities beset £45bn school building programme
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Scaffold collapse injures seven at Wates site
Work on £15.8m Liverpool John Moores University arts building halted after workers fall 30ft
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CommentWe need another national grid
Britain has been battered by floods and parched by droughts in recent summers. But if we had a national water grid, we could cope with both, argues David Lush
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Ucatt accuses 16 of payment abuse
Construction union Ucatt has sent a dossier to the government exposing the illegal treatment of agency workers on sites run by some of the industry’s biggest contractors.
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Lend Lease axed from £190m job
Developer Lend Lease has been removed from a £190m regeneration project in Eastbourne amid fears its appointment could fall foul of competition law
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Tube Lines set to win Metronet contracts
The odds on Tube Lines snapping up Metronet’s maintenance contracts shortened dramatically this week after the government’s arbiter said the collapsed group was theoretically entitled to claim up to £1.1bn from London Underground.
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New housing to fund energy improvements to old stock
Housing minister to use Thames Gateway profit to make existing housing more efficient
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Only 12 BSF schools out of 100 to complete by March
Delays and lack of skills in local authorities beset £45bn school building programme
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Lend Lease axed from £190m job
Developer Lend Lease has been removed from a £190m regeneration project in Eastbourne amid fears its appointment could fall foul of competition law.
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NewsBeyond the zero
Work has begun on the UK’s first carbon negative development in Beeston, Leeds.
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Wolseley posts first drop in profit for a decade
Wolseley became the latest victim of the US housing recession this week as it posted its first profit fall in 10 years.
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Baqus to go ahead with AIM listing, despite credit crunch
Quantity surveyor Baqus has shrugged off fears that the global credit crunch will delay its flotation on the alternative investment market (AIM) in November.
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Land Sec restructure
Sources close to Land Securities said it was unlikely to announce the results of a review until November.
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Inspace’s profit soars
Housing and corporate services provider Inspace has posted a 47% jump in half-year pre-tax profit to £5.4m.
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Mears out to buy
Mears is on the prowl for further acquisitions after its purchase of Keller Group’s social housing division for a nominal sum.
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NewsThe Camden scene
Public consultation has begun on a £7m plan to regenerate Camden Town in London.