Housing sector sets pace for improvement
Housebuilders have this year set an “impressive” pace of improvement across a range of categories, including client satisfaction, cost predictability and profitability according to Constructing Excellence, the industry body charged with promoting best pra
May sees drop in site visitors
May’s survey of housebuilders shows that visitors dropped away in the month, but reservations still stood higher than the same month a year ago.
Innovation workshops from BSRIA
Research body BSRIA is holding a programme of workshops on <i>Barriers to innovation in housing </i>following the completion of a research programme into the subject. The project identified a risk-averse culture as the greatest barrier to innovation, and
Swan Hill land sale
Housebuilders are expecting chunks of Swan Hill’s land bank to be sold off in coming months after attempts to sell the Middlesex-based firm to British Land broke down.
in the pipeline
<b>George Wimpey West Scotland </b>has recently submitted amended plans to North Lanarkshire Council to build 17 houses. The £1 million project is expected to start on site at Bellside Road, Airdrie early in 2005.
Ben Roskrow - Cracking the codes
[MMC-IMG=699-A=Left] I had my doubts when I first heard about design codes. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I have a natural aversion to people being too prescriptive, too demanding, too regimental maybe. I had visions of design codes stifling initiativ
Sixty shortlisted for revamped Housing Design Awards
Sixty developments – including those by firms such as Copthorn, Bellway, Linden, Barratt and David Wilson – have been shortlisted for the government-backed 2004 Housing Design Awards. This year’s winners will be announced on September 7 at Housebuilding 2
Urban extensions find favour in south east
The majority of people living in the south east do not want to live in flats, and do not want to see new settlements developed, according to the findings of a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. But they are not vehemently opposed to new develop
Waste disposal headache looms
Developers may be faced with major headaches over the disposal of contaminated soil, rubble, paint and asbestos when the EU Landfill Directive comes into force on July 16.
Call for nominations
Entries are open for the deputy prime minister’s Award for Sustainable Communities. John Prescott has called for nominations for projects and initiatives that make towns, cities and rural communities “better places in which to live and work.”
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