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Forum facts

Dec. 1, 2000

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

Dec. 1, 2000

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…

Greenfield...

Dec. 1, 2000

Moves and appointments

Dec. 1, 2000

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

Dec. 1, 2000

Jeremy Gates talks to Garry Stewart - poet, script writer and managing director of Richmond Homes of Dunfermline, Scotland.

Housing the bus pass generation

Dec. 1, 2000

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

Dec. 1, 2000

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

Dec. 1, 2000

Housebuilding journalist of the year John Stewart looks at the housing implications of chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report

Paper clips rural concerns

Dec. 1, 2000

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

Dec. 1, 2000

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…