All Housing articles – Page 98
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Consultant alleges ‘improper’ contact between Grenfell client and contractor
Advisor tells Inquiry he was ‘shocked’ to learn of £800k value engineering talks while procurement still live
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Work to restart on stalled £100m Liverpool job
Aura scheme previously put on hold in the wake of fraud allegations into developer Elliot Lawless
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Housing recovery sparks post-lockdown surge in construction orders
Housebuilding sector strongest performing part of construction as activity levels grow
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Build to rent investment to hit record high in 2020
£4bn to be spent on new build rented homes despite pandemic, says new research
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In Focus
Could covid spell the end of open-plan living?…
… probably not, but people are reassessing their housing needs, with room for home-working and outdoor space top of the wishlist. Now housebuilders are starting to rethink home designs
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Legacy body starts developer search for 1,200 homes on Olympic Park
Development Corporation looking for partner to build out schemes designed by Allies and Morrison and Mikhail Riches
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Grenfell Inquiry: Boss had ‘every confidence’ in project's building control officer
Council manager says surveyor only had 30 live projects and rejects allegations of ‘culture of bullying’
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Cambridgeshire council signs up housebuilder for development JV
South Cambridgeshire forms partnerships with Hill Group and Balfour Beatty
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What we learned at last week's Grenfell Inquiry hearings
Cladding fitters unable to explain ‘unacceptable’ errors while austerity staffing cuts hampered building control inspections
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‘Heartbroken’ building control officer laments lack of time on Grenfell refurb
Local authority surveyor blasts council staffing cuts but admits to Inquiry his checks fell short
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McStone partners with Anchor for new later living homes
The UK’s largest providers of housing for older people join forces to develop new homes
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HA consortium to kick start offsite homes procurement
Building Better group of associations will launch modular framework procurement this month
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Government turns down half of applicants for £1bn cladding fund
More than half of the decided applications to pay for remediation of non-ACM clad buildings so far refused
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Argent founder to chair housing quango
Peter Freeman given Homes England job after departure of Sir Edward Lister to be Downing Street adviser
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Grenfell council cut corners on inspections due to austerity, Inquiry told
Building control officer felt forced to make ‘judgments’ about whose work needed most focus
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Comment
Desirable home price increases are hiding the true state of the market
When the distressed sales start average house prices will fall
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Deal to kick start major Glasgow build to rent scheme
Insurance giant L G to forward fund 346-home Candleriggs Square tower
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Vistry appoints new South east MD
Housebuilder brings in former Bellway exec in latest senior management change
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Government launches £3bn housing retrofit programme
Money will be spent on private houses and public buildings
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Housebuilding plummets to lowest on record
Government figures show extent of damage to supply done by lockdown build hiatus