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Miller boss lands NHBC job

Miller Homes chief executive Tim Hough has been appointed as non-executive director of the NHBC and chairman of the NHBC standards committee.

Industry figure hits out at overuse of brownfield

Linden chief executive Philip Davies has warned that the government’s emphasis on brownfield development will lead to the construction of unwanted apartments. …

Westbury acquisition pushes Persimmon profits to new high

Persimmon has put its record interim pre-tax profits of £271.5 million down to the successful integration of Westbury.

Growth plans not ambitious enough - IPPR

More than double the 200,000 homes projected by the government will be needed in the south east over the next decade according to the Institute for Public Poli…

Little Britain by the Yangtse

A town featuring five centuries of British architecture is nearing completion, 20 miles outside China’s commercial capital Shanghai.

House prices on the up - RICS

House prices rose last month at their fastest rate in more than two years according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Gateway gets a chief exec

Judith Armitt, currently chief executive of Medway council, will take on the responsibility for delivering 120,000 new homes as the Thames Gateway chief execut…

Compulsory statements could be used to dictate design

Housebuilders fear that compulsory design and access statements will be used by local authorities to dictate the design of new developments.