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The ODPM Five Year Plan for Housing

Prescott asks EP to launch £60,000 home competition

[MMC-IMG=1237-A=Right] The government is turning to housebuilders to deliver low price homes under its First Time Buyer Initiative announced in the new Five Year Plan for Housing. Ministers remain convinced that housebuilders will be able to build homes f

Relaunch for Housing Design Awards

New RD handbooks now available

A new batch of standard constructions that are deemed to comply with sound insulation requirements under Part E of the Buildings Regulations have been approved by Robust Details Ltd.

High density not suitable for families

Excellent EcoHomes standard must be the minimum – Porritt

[MMC-IMG=1235-A=Left] New homes that are not built to the EcoHomes Excellent standard are a design failure and will hamper the government’s attempt to meet its carbon reduction targets, warned Jonathon Porritt, chair of the Sustainable Development Commiss

Second home buyers to be banned from Yorkshire Dales new homes market

In a radical new plan to deal with rural residents being priced out of their own communities by city-dwelling second home buyers, the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority is planning to ban the latter from its new homes market.

Building site theft costs £800m

Crest claims lead in ethical housebuilding

Cherry sees off billionaire rival