Opinion 鈥� Page 458
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Do we need more housing?
Your leader (29 June, page 3) called for a national hearts-and-minds campaign to explain the need for extra housing. It might help if you first questioned whether there really is such a need.
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Quite a bind
Your last editorial had a number of good suggestions for increasing the rate of housebuilding. I have another 鈥� easier removal of covenants restricting development. I have a large site adjacent to my house that has planning permission for a detached house. My neighbours have a covenant that restricts each ...
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Work jollies
I was interested to read your recent 黑洞社区 Buys a Pint with the networking organisation, Forum for the Built Environment (29 July, page 34-35). The topics ranged from the smoking ban to the hirsute nature of women in property and construction.
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CommentThe TA needs you 鈥�
Great article about the Territorial Army and the insight into what it offers. I recently joined and wish I had done so years ago.
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CommentTurning the tables
Things naturally fall apart, but that doesn鈥檛 mean you can鈥檛 have fun sticking them back together, as we demonstrate in many different ways this week, from dips in the briney to wooden hats
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CommentGordon Brown vs the housing crisis
There wasn鈥檛 too much we hadn鈥檛 heard before in Gordon Brown鈥檚 preview of the next Queen鈥檚 speech, and it was pretty short on detail, but the message came over loud and clear: if his predecessor鈥檚 top priorities were education, education, education, his are housing, housing and housing.
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CommentRiverbank tales
The film This is Tomorrow about the history of the Festival Hall prompted thoughts of yesteryear for Alex Smith. Luckily, there are some excellent web archives to help him trip down memory lane
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CommentSo where are we now?
So Brown鈥檚 government is to be 鈥渁ggressively pro-business鈥�, according to John Hutton, the business secretary.
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Getting our act together
The latest round of the Construction Act review has finally arrived, and although it provides useful additions to the previous proposals, there are some telling omissions
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CommentA few corrections 鈥�
As reported in Hansom, (22 June, page 29) I can confirm that I have recently resigned from the position of deputy chairman of the Construction Industry Council鈥檚 sustainable development committee. However, most other aspects of your short report are misleading.
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CommentExclude the dissenters
I would like to comment on Apocalypse Cow, the column by Richard Steer (13 April, page 34.)
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Home and away
Your article suggesting that the launch of international health and safety assessment will 鈥渆ncourage unqualified workers to come to the UK鈥� is misleading (15 June, page 15). The new international assessment, based on the success and high standards of the UK ConstructionSkills Health and Safety Test, is aimed at qualified ...
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The master builders
This photograph of workmen trimming rebar at a site near Giza in Cairo was sent in by Eric Fleming of Dawn Construction.
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Mediation under the microscope
Enthusiasts will tell stories to show that mediation is a cure-all while others remain unconvinced. Nicholas Gould summarises the findings of a survey that goes beyond the merely anecdotal
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CommentNot too comfy
Construction output is at an all-time high but with skills and materials shortages creeping up on us, we need to be prepared for a downturn