Prescott delivers tough ultimatum on safety
Deputy prime minister John Prescott has called on all sides of the construction industry to deliver tough new safety plans and targets to cut deaths, injuries and ill-health in the industry. These would prevent 3,000 major injuries and deaths a year by th
Raynsford warns of life under the Tories
Housing minister Nick Raynsford has warned the industry that despite the challenges of new tough planning rules, the outlook under a Conservative government would be much worse.
Industry relieved at Part L's u-turn on U-value
Housebuilders and suppliers of traditional building materials are claiming a significant success following the revelation that new thermal insulation values for walls will be less onerous than originally proposed.
HBF points finger at Ken
The number of affordable houses being built for key workers in London is far short of that required because of Mayor Ken Livingstone's stance on the issue, say housebuilders.
Is safety your top prority?
Three construction workers died from falls in three days last month - just a couple of weeks after John Prescott hosted his Construction Safety Summit in London. None of them died on housing sites, but the falls that killed them could easily have occurred
Stealth planning guidance
Joshua Risso-Gill of law firm Denton Wilde Sapte looks at last year's Barratt/Tower Hamlets ruling on affordable housing requirements and finds it shows that courts are not keen to get involved in issues of planning judgement.
Former glory
The modern housebuilding market requires developers to learn new skills in refurb and restoration. HouseBuilder reports on Prowting's first foray into this strange territory
Greenfield...
<b>Parting of the Pidgleys</b> Thank goodness that former Berkeley chairman Graham Roper was safely out of earshot and virtually forgotten in semi-retirement when the Pidgleys took their fateful walk along a beach in Barbados and decided, after 30 painful
Moves and appointments
Fairclough has appointed <b>David Cummings</b> as construction director for the firm's northern home counties division.
Renovation buzz
Jeremy Gates talks to Colin Brooks, managing director of Bewley Homes, about his plans for the firm and the role the young Brooks will play in the development of the firm.
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