Housing – Page 330
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Peabody sues builder for £300,000 after fire
The Peabody Trust is suing construction company Walter Llewellyn & Sons for more than £300,000 after a fire broke out in a block of flats.
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Tesco to sell affordable flats
Tesco is to pioneer a scheme offering affordable homes to key workers in south London.
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Newcastle makes exhibition of itself
Newcastle council is searching for a private developer to deliver the city’s housing exposition.
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Tom Hunter prepares £2bn bid for Wilson Bowden
As ڶ went to press, Sir Tom Hunter was thought to be preparing a £2bn bid for Wilson Bowden, which would be his third offer for a UK housebuilder in four months.
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Image: Solar panel makeover for Canning Town Tower
The refurbishment of 23-storey Ferrier Point by ECD will see the south facade clad in photovoltaics
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Tower block made famous by advert is demolished
Glasgow high-rise block used in Sony ad is destroyed in 10 seconds by controlled explosion
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Images: New digs for Bath students
Architect Design Partnership win planning for £16.4m University of Bath student residences
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HSE puts ban on Falcon cranes
‘Precautionary approach’ adopted after recent fatal accidents involving crane hire firm’s vehicles
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Ken Makes over his old home town
Architect Ken Shuttleworth unveils proposals for mixed-use Birmingham scheme
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Kier eyes Amec’s £1bn property division
Acquisition would double Kier’s £700m portfolio, but company says it will not touch construction
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Government gives go-ahead to Communities England
Merger of Housing Corporation and English Partnerships to create super regeneration agency
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Zero carbon taskforce gets green light
The government’s plans for all new homes to be zero carbon by 2016 moved a step forward this week with the formation of a steering group to lead the initiative.
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Big game Hunter
Making the news Sir Tom Hunter is the media-shy multimillionaire out to capture Crest Nicholson
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in December 2006
This month’s data from the NHBC
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The battle of Croydon
Croydon council struck developer Stanhope a blow this week by serving a compulsory purchase order (CPO) on the Gateway site in east Croydon.
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Crest set to win six-year struggle to build in Bath
Crest Nicholson is on the verge of winning a long-running battle to develop one of the south-west’s most important regeneration sites this week.
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Swan scraps London eco tower
An east London housing association has withdrawn plans to build the capital’s first “Ecohomes excellent” residential development after a backlash by local residents.
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Crest wins key Bath planning battle
Bath and North East Somerset Council vote by five to four to approve Crest's controversial Western Riverside scheme
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RICS, ABE, ACAI and LABC form building alliance
Leading industry bodies join forces to tackle building control issues
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Images: BSC reveals 46-storey Salford tower
Developer's plans for Salford site include a 46 and 31-storey tower