Housing – Page 332
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Plan for sliding scale Cambridge roof tax
Cambridgeshire Horizons unveils proposals for a three-tier planning tariff to replace section 106
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Siberian homes
Architects in Residence has just completed this £500,000 residential project in Camarthen Place, south London.
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Berkeley faces profit revision
Housebuilders could be affected if alterations to accounting rules go ahead
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Planning applications: November 2006
This month the South-east maintains its lead and Aspire Defence is the biggest client
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Rebuff for Leeds council over PFI regeneration bid
The government has frozen a PFI scheme to regenerate a Leeds suburbs where three of the 7 July suicide bombers lived.
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Estate set to be rebuilt after poll
Plans by architect Pollard Thomas Edwards (PTE) to rebuild a council estate that is threatened by collapse have cleared a key hurdle.
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Housing Corporation cuts red tape to assist developers
The Housing Corporation has told developers that it intends to reduce the amount of red tape they will have to contend with when bidding for grants.
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Persimmon sales break £3bn barrier
Housebuilder says integration of Westbury has helped boost completions by 38% to 16,700 homes
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Industry reacts to Kelly's green measures
Construction industry broadly welcomes Code for Sustainable Homes and zero carbon homes
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PFI social housing schemes put under the microscope
Treasury is concerned that new-build projects cost more than traditional grant-funded housing
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Nationwide predicts 8% house price rise
London and the South-east expected to fuel house price inflation
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First Base raises £250m for mixed-tenure flats
Developer secures funding for 900 units from Morgan Stanley and Uberior
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Modern estates would ‘come to bits’ in tornado
Tornado damage in London last week would have been worse if it had hit modern housing
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Barratt places bid for Wilson Bowden
Barratt enters battle to takeover Wilson Bowden according to newspaper report
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Pre-budget speech: All new homes to be zero carbon in 10 years
Chancellor Gordon Brown announces stamp duty exemption for new zero carbon homes
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Green light for Edinburgh canal scheme
£35m canal-side housing development gains planning permission
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Rising high
Architectural design is driving expansion at Sir Terence Conran’s Conran & Partners, with turnover expected to rise 20% this year.
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Mayor raises green standard for social housing
London mayor Ken Livingstone plans to raise the decent homes standard for social housing as part of his campaign over climate change.
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Guinness quits zero carbon plan
One of the biggest housing associations has pulled out of the race to build London mayor Ken Livingstone’s zero carbon project in the Docklands.
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Land values must fall 14% to make sense of eco promises
Stephen Stone, chief executive of Crest Nicholson, has said land values must drop by an average of 14% to enable eco-friendly schemes to stack up.