Housing – Page 329
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Images: Jestico + Whiles transforms Gray's Inn landmark
Architect reveals new designs behind a well-known Victorian facade on Rosebery Avenue in London
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Housing Corporation in funding shake-up
Developers to get funding over three years for the first time
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Bellway seals £1.2bn Leeds deal
Joint venture with Leeds City Council will include the construction of 5000 homes over 20 years
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Developers to be rewarded for building bigger rooms
Housing Corporation will provide financial incentives for houses that have more space
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Curbs imposed on buy-to-let
Developer promises to limit Liverpool sales to those who pledge to live in homes for three years
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Berkeley forms joint ventures with Saudi investor
Housebuilder Berkeley Group is forming three joint ventures worth £1bn with its biggest investor, Saudi Arabian Saad Investments, to build up its landbank.
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Connaught buys repair firm
Connaught has bought social housing asset management firm AE Williams for £6.5m.
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Countryside to develop £55m Bury scheme
Countryside Properties has won a contract worth £55m to oversee the regeneration of Radcliffe, near Bolton in Lancashire.
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Housing stats: New-build sales and completions in February 2007
Sales rose but registrations and completions were down on last year, while the South-east finished most projects
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Planning to be scrapped for domestic renewables
Government proposes removing planning barriers to domestic wind turbines and PVs except in extreme circumstances
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Vinoly to masterplan Battersea Power Station
Architect beats Fosters and SOM to design controversial site
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Galliford Try completes boardroom reshuffle
Acquisition of Morrison, Chartdale and Linden Homes prompts major changes in the boardroom
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Stamp duty relief to apply to off-site energy sources
Treasury makes it clear developments will not be required to generate all their own power
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Land Securities set to move into housebuilding business
Developer intends to keep control of Ebbsfleet regeneration by developing most homes itself
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Barnet to sell off playing fields to fund school building
North London borough hopes to raise £60m to finance primary schools’ renewal programme
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Taylor Wimpey: the deal of the decade
It is the merger that has been tipped, on and off, for the best part of a decade, but few would have thought that a £5bn deal between Taylor Woodrow and Wimpey to create the UK’s largest housebuilder would finally be hatched in a “dingy roadside cafe on the M40”.
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On the beach, in Leeds
Landscape architect Martha Schwartz and architects Carey Jones and Feilden Clegg Bradley have unveiled this plan for Wellington Place, a new quarter in Leeds’ city centre.
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Tenants plan 500 new homes for Brixton estate
The transfer of a south London estate to a tenant-run housing association has opened the door for the development of more than 500 new homes.