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Houses, not circuses
If 1.7 million homes are 'not decent', that means that something like the entire population of London is living in squalor. What on earth can we do?
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Transfer fever
Council housing could soon be just a memory as local authorities hand over the keys to social landlords, who will use them to unlock billions in private finance. But will the result just make the overheating in the industry even worse? Josephine Smit takes the temperature
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Blind man's bluff
The government's response to Britain's chronic housing shortage isn't so much bad as nonexistent. Falconer is just pretending nothing is wrong
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FeaturesAnd then there were three …
The fitting-out of the towers at either side of One Canada Square has completed the plan to make Canary Wharf into Manhattan-on-Thames
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Where will we live tomorrow?
First transport. Then hospitals and schools. And now housing. Our latest national crisis is the shortage of affordable new homes. London is worst affected, but even Reading's prices are out of reach of nurses and teachers. Once again, we are paying for decades of underinvestment. At a time when the ...
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Who owns Russia now?
Doing business in Russia became a lot easier in January after the publication of a "land code". Not that there aren't one or two little problems left …
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Planned obsolescence
The development industry believes Lord Falconer's planning green paper is ill thought-out and will, ironically, make planning applications even more complicated
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Reform too slow, says Egan
Egan's follow up to Rethinking Construction chides industry for slow progress and points way to future.
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Bovis and Balfour tipped to bid for Holzmann's US arm
City expects UK giants to lead chase for JA Jones, the collapsed German contractor's prize asset.
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NewsLidgate: Laing Homes not for sale
Laing Homes boss Steve Lidgate has hit back against continued speculation that the firm is up for sale.
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Rising market 'will deter mergers'
The increasing stock market value of housebuilders will hinder mergers and takeovers, according to a report published last week.The report, from research company Market & Business Development, said although the consolidation drive was likely to continue, some potential deals would fail because of the share price increases.The report said: "As ...
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FeaturesSir John Fairclough
The government's latest one-man ginger group for construction is its former chief scientific adviser, but, as Thomas Lane discovered, he is not just calling for radical reform. He's much more ambitious than that …
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Variation, and a theme
If you sign a long-term deal with a client, congratulations. And if you haven't ensured you can keep up your end, commiserations. You're at the mercy of fate …
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FeaturesPart L: Time's up
By the time you get back to work after Easter, the new Part L of the Building Regulations will be in effect, and the chances are you won't be ready for it. The result could be completion dates blown away, teams turned upside down – even the end of design-and-build ...
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NewsByers' £300m rail payback will hit PFI, say bankers
Funders warn that government payout will undermine claims that PFI transfers risk to private sector.
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Capita poaches Railtrack boss
Multidisciplinary business Capita Property Consultancy has poached a senior Railtrack executive, one of three new directors the firm has appointed this month.CPC, part of the listed Capita Group, said this week that John Southgate, Lindsay McCombe and Andrew Harnett had joined the firm. Southgate was formerly head of investment strategy ...
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Don't get cute
Go to court with finely honed legal arguments that contradict the spirit of the Construction Act, and you can expect the kind of treatment ABB got in this case …
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Judge rules HTA had no Greenwich contract
HTA Architects has been told that no contract existed between itself and the developers of the £250m Greenwich Millennium Village when it was sacked from the scheme in June 1999.
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Government missing public spend targets
The government is failing to meet its spending commitments for public services, according to the Construction Products Association.