House Building policy, regulation, planning, technology, product features

Energy efficient regulations

Feb. 1, 2006 Feature

Part L amendments are coming into effect in April. Chris Windle considers their impact on the industry

Supreme site managers

Feb. 1, 2006 Feature

This year’s winners of the NHBC’s annual Pride in the Job competition were well deserving, reports Melissa Blamey

Apartments markets

Feb. 1, 2006 Feature

Steve Menary analyses the results of an exclusive survey of planning applications submitted during 2005, which shows apartment-building still on the rise.

Stone Style

Feb. 1, 2006 Feature

Crest Nicholson chief executive Stephen Stone talks to Allison Heller about how he is moving the company on and developing a new intermediate housing range

Liverpool Rising

Feb. 1, 2006 Feature

Liverpool’s city centre is undergoing an exciting transformation as it prepares to become European Capital of Culture in 2008. Chris Windle rolled up for a magical mystery tour

Grand design

Jan. 1, 2006 Feature

Steve Menary visits Tower View in Glasgow, the historic Hawkshead asylum, which Miller Homes has painstakingly transformed into an award winning apartment complex.

While few housebuilders would admit to a mission statement that is not based on a customer care ethos, few would expect to find the term bandied around by building control inspectors. But times are changing, reports Satvinder Sahota, and NHBC is taking a new approach

Miller moves up

Jan. 1, 2006 Feature

Miller’s purchase of Fairclough has boosted its building programme across a number of regions, reports Steve Menary in our exclusive quarterly survey, while Barratt is upping the ante in London and the south east

Annual Review

Jan. 1, 2006 Feature

Key industry figures look back on the year and discuss their hopes for 2006 with Chris Windle

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