Ground control
Housebuilder’s legal team from Campbell Hooper - Heather O’Sullivan, Sara Hampson, Stuart Jordan and Bill Bidder - explains how you go about getting a sewer connected to your development and the intricacies of the defects liability period
Changing focus
Steve Menary meets Antler Homes chief executive Geoff Potton at the firm’s Pavilion Square scheme in south London, a development which heralds the start of a change in focus for the business
Gateway to a promised land?
The government sees the Thames Gateway as the answer to the south east’s housing shortage. But is it all it’s cracked up to be? Mark Smulian looks at the opportunities for housebuilders east of the meridian and some of the challenges still to be overcome
If it’s worth doing...
[MMC-IMG=431-A=Right] The best site managers from across the UK celebrated their success at NHBC’s prestigious Pride in the Job gala at London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel last month. Three leading site managers were each presented with the ultimate accolade o
The walking billboard
Can our customers be our best brand ambassadors? Miller Homes’ marketing director, Philip Hogg, believes that with just a little more effort from the builder, home buyers can be our most effective form of advertising yet
The Raven’s claw
“Hold on a moment,” says Anton Bilton, on realising that the interview involves having his photograph taken. “A button’s come off my shirt - I think I’d better put my jacket on.”
[MMC-IMG=360-A=Left] Barker’s body of evidence
I suspect Kate Barker’s Interim Report will be rather like Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, much talked about but little read. For those without the time or inclination to plough through all 208 pages, it would be worth reading the lengthy Execu
Appointments
<b>Persimmon Homes</b> [MMC-IMG=424-A=Right] Mike Ackling has been appointed Persimmon Homes South East’s health and safety advisor. Ackling has worked in the sector for four years, previously in the army, and will be looking after a number of development
Housebuilders hitting sustainability heights
<MMC-TINTED 300 align=right> <b>In Breif </b> £20 million energy grant The Energy Saving Trust is encouraging housebuilders to snap up some of the £20 million government grant available since March 2002 to install solar power photo voltaic (PV) systems. G
Environ Sunley scoops top industry award
Housing minister Keith Hill visited Environ Sunley’s Lacuna project at West Malling in Kent last month to present the firm with one of the first Building for Life Gold standard awards,
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