Features

Development of the month

Steve Menary visits a magnificent Kent mansion to find out about a new 58 home scheme for Millgate Homes designed in classical style by Robert Adam

Urban Hymns

Steve Menary talks to Ashley Nicholson and Tim Pain, partners at development firm Verve, to find out how they are carving out a niche for a small developer in …

Promotional Rescue

Conservative shadow housing minister Grant Shapps is distinctly unimpressed by the Government’s housebuilding rescue package. He tells Stephen Hoare why the in…

Staircases with style

Defensive estates

Gladedale’s redevelopment of an army garrison at Southend-on-Sea has seen the site transformed into a characterful waterside scheme. Steve Menary reports

NVQ faqs

Over the last eight years, NHBC has been offering NVQs, primarily at management levels. Rob Lockey, NHBC’s training services manager, answers the most frequent…

Metal gurus

Steve Thompson, Corus’ senior architect, and Samir Boudjabeur, Corus’ Manubuild co-ordinator, talk to Allison Heller about the progress of a cutting edge steel…

Powerhouse

Jonathan Schwinge has reinvented the traditional cottage. The director of architectural and product design practice, Schwinge, tells Allison Heller how his 21s…

Market acceleration

The residential property sector has entered a period of unprecedented and unpredicted turmoil, which will fast-track major changes to its structure, argues EC …

Planning decline

Across the UK, housebuilders large and small are pulling in their horns and easing production. Steve Menary assesses the likely impact of this now widespread t…