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Expanding housebuilding

[MMC-IMG=868-A=Left] Many people are sceptical the government will achieve a substantial increase in housebuilding. John Stewart looks at the evidence and finds that the planning system is gearing up for a big increase

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St Albans station

IR crackdown on bogus self-employment

New Homes Marketing Board AGM

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the New Homes Marketing Board (“the Board”) will be held at 12.45pm. on November 18 at Byron House, 1st floor, 7-9 St. James’s Street, London SW1A 1DW for the purpose of approving the audited accou

Apprenticeships gain favour with parents

The shortage of young people choosing construction related careers may be turning around, as more parents favour apprenticeships for their children rather than see them saddled with the growing debt burden associated with university study.

Policy to permit “cutting edge” country houses

Government has unexpectedly reversed its proposal to ban new large country homes, following its introduction of Planning Policy Statement 7 (PPS7) for rural areas, which permits them on the condition that they are “innovative” in design and construction m

moves and appointments

in the pipeline

True Worth Books has submitted outline plans for the construction of 16 apartments, designed by Hawdon Russell Architects. The £750,000 project at Brittania Works, 1 Garden Street North in Halifax is anticipated to start on site January 2005.

Drop in site visitors dents housebuilders’ optimism

The market is continuing to slow down, in part as a result of a number of interest rate rises by the Bank of England, whose governor Mervyn King has been vocal in his desire to see record housing market inflation reigned in. The latest HBF survey shows si