All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 15
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NewsConstruction sites to keep extended working hours until autumn
Measures introduced last May allow jobs to stay open until 9pm
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NewsFormer Grenfell insulation boss denies MPs’ dinner was attempt to stop combustibles ban
Senior Kingspan staff attended January 2018 dinner at Palace of Westminster months after Grenfell fire, inquiry hears
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NewsKingspan director denies misleading Grenfell Inquiry over rigged fire test
Adrian Pargeter says ‘powers of recollection…deserted me’ when giving evidence last December
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NewsDeal signed on 500-home Oxford ‘life sciences’ district
Developer and council agree £8m of planning contributions to allow scheme to proceed
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NewsRetrofits of Victorian homes can cut CO2 emissions by more than 80%
Historic England says improvements needed on the fifth of buildings in England which are over a century old
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NewsGovernment takes control of Liverpool council’s planning and regeneration teams
Action as damning report following fraud probe finds ‘deeply concerning picture of mismanagement’
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NewsDevelopers can’t pay for affordable housing, says British Land exec
Canada Water chief Roger Madelin said that general taxation should fund submarket housing
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NewsCertifier reprimanded for ‘serious’ error in Grenfell insulation, inquiry hears
BBA’s certificate for Kingspan product described by inquiry counsel as ‘dangerously misleading’
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NewsManufacturer changed Grenfell cladding without alerting certifier, inquiry hears
Arconic did not formally update British Board of Agrement when it changed the core of its ACM panels
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NewsGovernment suffers Lords defeat on leaseholder liability for repairs
House of Lords votes to reinsert amendment protecting leaseholders from cladding costs
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NewsBBA issued 'materially wrong' certificate for Grenfell ACM, inquiry hears
Certifying body’s project manager admits never seeing crucial test data before issuing Arconic with renewal of flawed document
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NewsIlke buys Essex site for largest ever scheme
Modular builder in talks with housing association over 225-home project
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NewsGLA backs Peabody’s 1,500-home Dagenham regen with £80m grant
Peabody planning homes at former Ford Dagenham car factory in east London
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NewsL&G starts work on 200-home ‘net zero’ retirement village
Developer’s later living arm Inspired Villages behind £120m Bedfordshire scheme
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NewsArconic threatened testing house boycott unless Grenfell cladding approved, inquiry hears
Hearing told British Board of Agrément supplied certificate for ACM cladding based on incomplete test data
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NewsGrenfell cladding firm warned in 2007 that panels could kill 70 people
Manager told Arconic of expert’s prediction that ACM panels would burn like a ‘truck of 19,000 litre oil’
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry told of ‘fundamental errors’ in cavity barrier installation
Manufacturer says work was of ‘poorest standard’ it had ever seen
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NewsPlans approved for 650-home Maidenhead town centre revamp
Scheme to replace 1960s shopping centre with mixed use development
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NewsArrested developer sells £70m Manchester resi tower project
The main contractor had walked off the job last year following fraud probe into Elliot Lawless
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NewsGrenfell cavity barriers only formally approved after fire, inquiry hears
Installed barriers had not been tested prior to use on tower’s refurbishment