Opinion – Page 305
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Home improvements
Regarding the article “Osborne’s axe fells schools and housing” (22 October, page 9), you’re right that we’re going to need to attract a huge amount of private sector finance into the refurbishment of our existing housing stock over the next decade
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In the detail
On first analysis, it looks as though capital spending has borne the brunt of the cuts to next year’s Scottish budget announced in the UK spending review.
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There is another way
I read with interest the article by Malcolm Taylor in ڶ (22 October, page 33). His dissatisfaction with the RICS expresses the feelings of many of its QS members.
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Quentin Shears: How to cut a school by 40%
’Suddenly I knew how George Osborne felt when he got his hands on the communities department payroll’
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Dropping in for a pizza
Thanks to Martin Corbishley for spotting this demonstration of the lengths some people will go to for a decent Quattro Stagione
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Construction growth continues to roar, but can you hear it?
On the GDP measure, construction grew 9.5% in the second quarter of this year and 4.0% in the latest quarter. Is it real?
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When does hospitality become bribery?
New legislation is leaving businesses nervous about what is and isn’t allowed
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Two bags of ballast = One dimwit in a hi-vis
Thanks to Gavin Williams of Wates for spotting this evidence of the seesaw theory of mathematics
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Why the spending review might prove a turning onto the road to Nirvana for housebuilders
However, the prospects for housing, housing associations and contractors are far less rosy
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Has government really made an 'investment in the future'?
Osborne made commitments to invest in key areas but capital budgets have still been hit
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Spending review: What’s the damage?
We now have certainty and the knowledge that government plans to invest
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How I learned to love part L
The ڶ Regulations - it hardly needs saying - must be greeted with fear and loathing. But oddly, says Gus Alexander, they can instil a feeling approximating joy - if only for 10 seconds
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The RICS: Are we being served?
Open mike: QSs have little in common with estate agents yet we share the same professional body. We have to break free and form an organisation that truly represents us
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Inbox: Intelligence briefing
Three readers watch the state, another takes surveillance photos and a fifth tries to decipher ڶ
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ڶ buys a pint … for Kinetics
Venues: The Gherkin, the Boleyn pub and the Riverside Chinese restaurant Topics: Corporate hospitality, Glen Medeiros, the fall of Connaught, Ian Dury Drinks: One bottle of La Cote Blanche Sancerre 2009, one gin and tonic, 15 pints of Guinness, 14 bottles of lager
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Pre-action disclosure in arbitration: Travelers Insurance vs Countrywide Surveyors
This case hinged on whether the court could order documents to be disclosed when the parties were subject to an arbitration agreement
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Osborne establishes his green credentials
It’s a pleasant surprise to see the government backing the low-carbon agenda
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Hansom : The bestiary
Strange creatures stalk the diary page this week, including a giraffe on a desert island, a disorganised German organisation and a construction professional who made all the girls swoon
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Balance of terror
Our thanks to Nigel Barrett for this picture of daily life on a south London trading estate.