All Leader articles – Page 27

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    Could you vote labour again?

    2010-04-09T00:00:00Z

    The industry used to vote how it wanted, safe in the knowledge that it wouldn’t change a thing. Back in 2005 most of the industry thought that Labour had the best economic policies, yet felt free to vote Tory

  • Denise Chevin
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    Are they worth it?

    2010-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders join bankers on the list of most-hated fat cats

  • Denise Chevin
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    Starving artist syndrome

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The BA saga might be giving unions a controversial reputation, but a more organised workforce wouldn’t go amiss in the architecture profession right now

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    Something to shout about

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    One of the best bits of news we’ve heard in a long time was delivered by Ed Miliband last week

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    The real cost of regulation

    2010-03-05T00:00:00Z

    According to the government, providing homebuyers with a plentiful supply of new homes has been an important goal for most of the past decade

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    Wrong time for an overhaul

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Over the past few decades our system for regulating the supply of land and what can or cannot be built on it has become labyrinthine

  • Denise Chevin
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    Why we need Charter 284

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    This week ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø is launching a campaign to argue for five policy goals that the winner of the general election should implement

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    Philosophical advice

    2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

    University spending is vanishing, but that doesn't meant this is another LSC debacle

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    Government burglars

    2010-02-05T00:00:00Z

    As Brian Green points out in his column on drumming up work, the government has pretty much kept the industry in business during the recession

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    Government intern system: Slow learners

    2010-01-29T00:00:00Z

    Have you ever logged on to graduatetalentpool.direct.gov.uk?

  • Denise Chevin
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    Stuck in the middle

    2010-01-22T00:00:00Z

    The general purpose contractor that turns over £70-200m and bases its success on good relations with local councils and health authorities in a particular region has long been the backbone of Britain’s building industry

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    2010: The year of the deal

    2010-01-15T00:00:00Z

    WYG decided to go into Ireland shortly before its economy imploded; worse decisions were possible (a Reykjavik office?) but only justGrowth and success are not the same thing. Unless expansion is carried out by a skilled management team working to a plan as shrewd as it is lucky, opening overseas ...

  • Denise Chevin
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    Carry on screaming

    2010-01-08T00:00:00Z

    Just how scary is 2010 going to be, we ask on the cover. Well, put it this way: if you want to feel uplifted in the next 12 months your best bet is probably to watch Toy Story III

  • Denise Chevin
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    We’ve never had it so good

    2009-12-18T00:00:00Z

    You can’t see much when you’re in a hole, but the truth is that the noughties were in many ways a wonderful decade

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    After copenhagen

    2009-12-11T00:00:00Z

    We still have little idea of how low-energy designs perform, which means we’re like scientists conducting endless experiments without ever seeing how they come out

  • Denise Chevin
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    Where there’s smoke

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    We won’t know for some time the details of the devastating fire in Peckham last week

  • Denise Chevin
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    The task facing Paul Morrell

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    When the House of Commons’ business and enterprise committee made the appointment of a chief construction officer one of the main recommendations in its Construction Matters report in July last year, many people thought it was a great idea – and likely to remain just that

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    RICS and its members: Losing touch

    2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

    Members from across the whole of the organisation feel the RICS is morphing from an elected body for the members into a quango wannabe

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    Half full, not half empty

    2009-11-13T00:00:00Z

    At the British Council of Shopping Centres conference this week, the talk was of the shortage of retail space and the need to start building fairly soon to meet demand in four years’ time

  • Sarah Richardson
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    Infrastructure: The long game

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Welcome to the first of ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s special market reports