Housing – Page 260
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Where now for the Thames Gateway?
Withdrawn transport schemes, impending recession and renewed tensions over the investment plan: the future for the Thames Gateway never looked bleaker. So what’s to be done? In the run-up to next week’s Thames Gateway forum, the leaders of the programme tell us how it can be delivered.
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HCA chief will review Thames Gateway delivery bodies
A review of the bodies in charge of delivering the planned £9bn regeneration of the Thames Gateway is to be instigated by Eamonn Boylan, deputy chief executive designate for the Homes and Communities Agency.
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St Paul’s tower may ‘grind to halt’ after council veto
Sheffield planning committee rejects changes proposed by architect on £40m scheme
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Offshore deal saves Bewley Homes from collapse
Investors launch last-minute rescue after bank cuts credit to £65m-turnover housebuilder
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Only 22 homes crack the Code
Only 22 developments have been certified under the Code for Sustainable Homes since it came into force a year and a half ago.
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Urban Splash slams ‘drug dealer’ utilities
Urban Splash’s Nick Johnson likened energy companies to drug dealers this week as he called for reform of the utilities markets
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1,000 new homes join £1bn RSL backlog each month
Housing associations fear low sales could seriously impair ability to build homes for affordable rent
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Pukka apartments
Planning permission has been granted for the conversion of Danbury Palace, a grade II-listed manor house near Chelmsford, into a luxury apartment block.
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in October 2008
A slight rise in social housing cannot mask the massive drop-off in the private sector
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Home time: Duggan Morris' housing scheme
A private housing scheme in south-east London, designed by Duggan Morris Architects, has been given the green light by Lewisham council
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Angel of the east: Jacobs Webber
The Angel Group has submitted its Angel House tower, nicknamed the Number One tower, for planning permission
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Mortgage lending up slightly in October
Gross lending up 7% on September but still 44% down on a year ago
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Sir Terry Farrell made design czar for London suburbs
Boris Johson appoints leading architect to new Outer London Commission
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Boris launches £5bn London housing strategy
Mayor pledges to support housing market and boost construction sector
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Credit crunch holds up prototype eco-town
Northstowe near Cambridge will be delayed at least a year because of funding problems and project complexity
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Gleeson cuts more jobs after £9.6m writedown
Regeneration company will move head office from Hampshire to Sheffield in bid to cut costs
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EC Harris named on €1bn Transylvanian tractor transformation
Cost consultant joins team on 123ha regeneration project in Romania masterplanned by YRM
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Old terraces in Staffordshire become green icons
Winner of the ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø 99% Campaign Award for refurbishment this is an inspiring example of how to turn a humble Victorian house into an eco terrace
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The Barratt code level six house, a guide
Here's a guide to the Sustainable Small ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø of the Year at the ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Sustainability Awards 2008. It looks conventional enough on the outside, but you’re staring at the first Code for Sustainable Homes level six home to be built by a volume housebuilder. Inside it’s an all-out radical.
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Urban Splash confirms 60 jobs cut
Developer admits it has laid of 21% of its staff and put two Liverpool schemes on hold