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UK’s tallest residential tower planned for London

COMMENT - Allison Heller Deputy editor

[MMC-IMG=1754-A=Left] Summer. Short and sweet. Also a drought in parts of the country and getting warmer, according to a new report by the WWF. The study analy-sed temperatures from 16 European cities over the past 30 years and found that of them all, Lon

Housebuilding 2005: "essential event"

Thousands of people engaged in the UK’s housebuilding industry are set to converge on London on September 7 and 8 to attend Housebuilding 2005, the two day dedicated event for the industry.

ODPM planning targets lead to "reject and resubmit" cycle

Developers are increasingly being forced onto a "reject and resubmit" planning merry-go-round in order to win approval for housing schemes, as planning authorities seek to meet the government’s speed-of-decision targets, writes Brian Green.

CIOB skills shortage

Home ownership levels continuing to fall

Despite the government’s pledge to create one million new homeowners by 2010, ODPM figures show that the amount of people who own their own home dropped last year by around 400,000.

Persimmon surprised by judges’ verdict on Design for Manufacture competition

The judging panel for deputy prime minister John Prescott’s Design for Manufacture competition has surprised some in the industry by omitting the creators of English Partnerships’ Sustainable Communities Summit house, Persimmon, Fusion and PRP Architects,

Mortgage lending at slowest in three years

Online investing comes to buy-to-let market

Millions of homes are substandard - ODPM