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Housing undersupply not planners' fault - CPRE

1 Dec 2004

New research by the Council to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has exonerated planners from playing any part in housing undersupply - instead blaming government for its lack of investment in council housing over the past 50 years. The report cites social ho

EP and MoD sign partnership agreement

1 Dec 2004

English Partnerships has signed a joint working agreement with the Ministry of Defence, formalising the agencies' growing partnership approach to bringing forward surplus government sites for redevelopment.

Prince warns against fast-tracked building

1 Dec 2004

Prince Charles has warned the government and housebuilding industry that an obsession with fast building could lead to the re-creation of the soulless housing estates of the 1960s and 1970s.

DWH uses "concept house" to study lifestyles

1 Dec 2004

<MMC-CAPTION 100 align=left> [MMC-IMG=1218-A=Left] DWH development director James Wilson: testing out how families live in new homes </MMC-CAPTION> David Wilson Homes is looking for a family to live in its new "concept house" in Sheffield in which the fir