Forum facts
Marcus Keys, Housing Forum project manager, takes a look at the organisation's latest report on its demonstration projects, launched at its October conference.
Rights of third parties
Neil Price of law firm Hammond Suddards Edge looks at the impact that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act will have on contracts for work and materials…
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Moves and appointments
McCarthy && Stone has appointed Simon Clift as its executive commercial director. He will direct the planning and construction of more than 1500 flats in the c…
Bard of Richmond
Jeremy Gates talks to Garry Stewart - poet, script writer and managing director of Richmond Homes of Dunfermline, Scotland.
Housing the bus pass generation
The number of elderly people in the UK is set to soar in the next few years. But they won't want to live in nursing homes for their care - increasingly they wa…
View from a Thames tower
Ben Roskrow talks to Persimmon deputy chairman Mike Allen about the innovative Icon development in London's Docklands and looks at other schemes under the Pers…
A pre-Budget pinch of salt is required
Housebuilding journalist of the year John Stewart looks at the housing implications of chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report
Paper clips rural concerns
Will Howie looks at the government's idea of building on agricultural land to solve the rural housing crisis and finds conflicting views on the attractiveness …
Building in the wake of the floods
Housebuilders took some of the flak following the recent flooding, and they're not best pleased about it. Ben Roskrow looks at what the industry is doing to al…
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