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Housebuilders hitting sustainability heights

In Breif £20 million energy grant The Energy Saving Trust is encouraging housebuilders to snap up some of the £20 million government grant available since Ma…

Environ Sunley scoops top industry award

Housing minister Keith Hill visited Environ Sunley’s Lacuna project at West Malling in Kent last month to present the firm with one of the first Building for L…

Sellers’ Pack shelved indefinitely

Barker prompts fear of development tax

in the pipeline Wyre Council is considering an application for new housing in Preston. Persimmon Homes has submitted an application for the construction of 44…

Industry optimistic on sales

Two thirds of housebuilders expect sales to increase in 2004 compared to 2003 according to the latest HBF survey. And after a dip in reservations in sales in N…

Quality not a priority for new customers

Newness and quality are not priorities for people choosing to buy new homes, according to a report from the Rowntree Foundation.

in brief

Community values Living in a “good community” with trustworthy neighbours is important to around 90% of home buyers moving in to a new development, according t…

Design awards to be held at premier industry show

The 2004 Housing Design Awards - the government’s favoured industry awards - are to be presented at Housebuilding 2004 in September, underlining the event’s em…

Swan Hill to be sold...again

Anton Bilton, the man who led the swoop to buy Swan Hill from under the noses of its board, is to sell off the company immediately.

Sound insulation RSDs get go ahead

The government has approved the use of the industry’s Robust Standard Details proposals devised to comply with new Building Regulations on sound insulation (Pa…