Opinion – Page 527
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CommentLiberty Hall
The urban taskforce is filled with brownfield Taliban, but one member knows we don’t need to live in city-centre boxes. So why doesn’t Sir Peter Hall tells the others?
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On the record
A High Court decision to allow the media access to pleadings in Multiplex vs Cleveland Bridge before the case went to trial has implications for all court users
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After the endgame
In the leader column in today’s issue of Building (28 October) you say: “Without a doubt energy is the most important problem we face as an industry and a society.” None of your readers, unless they had some kind of axe to grind, could disagree with the points you make. ...
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It’s too late to be reasonable
You are absolutely right that “if construction is to deliver, it needs the rules spilling out of Whitehall to follow the three Cs: they must be clear, concise and consistent” (leader).
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The right mix
Your interview with the energy minister Malcolm Wicks (28 October) reinforced the view that we should move away from much of the current media debate on which energy source is “best” – a debate somewhat hijacked by nuclear energy.
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An economic argument
You are trying to have it both ways: our industry moaning about energy price rises while pressing the government to make us more “sustainable”.
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More fuel to the fire
I read with interest the features on energy in this week’s issue. Of particular interest was the article “Homeowners want cheaper bills not greener measures” (page 23).
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L’s grannies
Images of little old ladies controlling their central heating by getting to grips with chapter 11 of the CIBSE Energy Efficiency Guide have faded away.
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Why the long face?
Was I the only one cheered up by all your dire warnings of a future without hydrocarbons, uranium, cars and so on?
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The lesson of Leeds
Your lead story on the CASPAR housing scheme in Leeds (28 October) illustrates perfectly the folly of the prescriptive approach to specifying how houses and flats should be built.
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Mall mauling
I am compelled to comment on the latest addition to the infamous Arndale Centre by Chapman Taylor (21 October).
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Mining other rich seams
I am writing in reponse to Malcolm Taylor’s etter on the Woodhorn Colliery in Northumberland (9 September).
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Help for Gus
Of course the answer to Gus Alexander’s problem with the lowest price tender (28 October) would be for the client to employ a quantity surveyor at the outset of the project.
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The rise and rise of consultation
Jon Rouse sensibly sees the pursuit of consensus through interminable consultation as a failure of nerve among those politically or professionally charged with planning (30 September). This serves as an apology from the man who established the corrosive influence of the unelected CABE.
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What’s it worth?
The claimants were trustees of a settlement. They owned a property comprising a number of shops and flats. The primary purpose of the trust was to provide income rather than capital growth.The claimants sought to obtain vacant possession of the individual flats with a view to re-letting them on short-term ...
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CommentOpen Mike: Wrong turnings
David Trench, the project director on the Millennium Dome, knows from experience what happens when people stray too far from a project’s initial raison d’être
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CommentLook to the skies
We need to forget about cheap houses and luxury riverside apartments and start building high quality high rise, says the latest column from our graduate panel