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Westbury’s Space4 off-site construction plant has been praised by the deputy prime minister John Prescott as “the new kind of housing production we want to see”.

In the Pipeline

Work has recently commenced on site for 44 houses and flats at Elgin Road, Cowdenbeath. The developer and builder is David Boyack Homes.

Lack of affordable housing fuels crisis

A massive drop in the level of social and affordable housing is to blame for the crisis in the UK housing market, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

First time buyer figures plummet

The number of first time buyers has fallen to an all time low due to demographics, social change and affordability according to FPD Savills. The “worrying trend” could lead to a slowdown in house price growth in the medium term.

Cars fall foul of Londoners’ green living

Londoners are increasingly likely to live without a car according to a survey into the transport habits of the city’s apartment-dwellers.

Sound RSDs out for consultation

The government has published for consultation the industry’s robust standard detail proposals, devised by the industry to satisfy new sound insulation rules. The RSDs have been drawn up over the past year in a major HBF-backed project in which 58 housebui

Boost for training funds

The Construction Industry Training Board’s (CITB) grant funding pot has been topped up to £86.5 million for 2003/04 - a 15% increase on last year. Construction firms will also benefit from an overhaul of the grants system designed to make it easier and fa

Diary Dates

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The Walrus

Our hot and bothered Walrus admires the Comic Timing Division at the ODPM but accepts that it is overshadowed by the department’s Short-Lived Building Legislation Group. What planet are they on?

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