All Housing articles – Page 299
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Features
No nimbys here: will Tory councils accept their party's housing policy?
The Conservatives want to give local councils more power to plan development for their areas. But given that so many Tories – especially in the South – are fighting proposed housing schemes, why should housebuilders believe their plans will work? By Muireann Bolger
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RDAs could speed up £4bn lifeline for small firms
Trade body in talks with ministers over using regional agencies to deliver critical EU funds
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ODA thwarted in battle over 2012 media centre legacy
Freeholder blocks plan to save millions of pounds by extending lease on ailing £385m project
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Planning applications: October 2008
Another thin month, with only regeneration specialist Centros and Taylor Wimpey passing £100m
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Redrow defends £216,000 payout for four bosses
Housebuilder says ‘strict performance criteria’ were met, despite £194m loss and 550 redundancies
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Migrants set to lose benefits
Social security to be restricted to British citizens under draft legislation.
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Bovis Homes warns of 40% fall in output
Housebuilder hit by plunging demand but says profit still on track to meet expectations
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FMB defends government housebuilding targets
Builders slam MPs for questioning whether 3 million new homes are still needed
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Social housing keeps Mears finances solid
Results on track and group growing strongly, thanks to public sector client base
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MPs hit out at government homes targets
Committee criticises pursuit of building new homes at expense of raising environmental standards
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Mortgage lending up in September
New approvals show first monthly rise in a year, but lending still nearly 50% down on last year
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Private renting ‘must increase’
The private rented sector should be expanded, according to a communities department report.
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Credit crunch spreads to medium-sized housebuilders
£254m-turnover David McLean is pushed under by £100m debts, joining £131m-turnover Taggart
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Livingstone’s climate change tsar is made redundant
Allan Jones goes in climate change shake up at London Development Agency
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BRE says steel frame is fastest way to build homes
Research body compares steel, concrete, timber and brick to combat ‘inefficiency’ in industry
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Birthplace of the blues: The US housing crisis
Richard Snook of the Centre for Economics and Business Research goes back to the roots of the credit crunch to work out when the misery might end for the US and UK housing markets
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Woking council to spend up to £300m on stalled sites
Surrey local authority pioneers scheme to purchase residential sites for social housing
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House prices crash 15% in a year
Average UK home now worth £30,000 less than a year ago, says Nationwide
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Home repossessions rise 71%
Repossessions in second quarter show ‘significant’ rise, while prices fall 2.2% in the year to September
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Let it be: did a government review of private rented housing go far enough?
Nick Jopling of CB Richard Ellis says what's missing from the Rugg Review, why a build-to-let sector should not need tax breaks and how student accommodation could be the solution to the housing shortage