Housing – Page 262
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Crest Nicholson forced to shed another 20% of staff
Refinancing deal drives housebuilder to close three offices in massive restructure
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Homes and Communities Agency: Quite an entrance
Get out the champagne … On Monday, the long-awaited housing superagency finally opens for business. Joey Gardiner considers the bedraggled legacy of English Partnerships, an organisation Rouse fears will turn up to the new body’s opening night with ‘its clothes tattered and its lipstick smudged …’
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The recovery unit
The Homes and Communities Agency must invest in land and infrastructure in order to be in shape for an eventual upturn, says the former chief executive of the Housing Corporation
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Housing Corporation boss Steve Douglas: Outgoing (to say the least)
Housing Corporation boss Steve Douglas thinks some housing associations will go to the wall, is sceptical about the affordable homes target, but is nevertheless brimming with optimism for the public sector. We spoke to him on the eve of his departure
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HCA may be lead developer, says Kerslake
Leaders of the housing and regeneration superagency being launched next week are considering turning it into a large-scale direct developer of homes during the housing downturn, it emerged this week.
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Eastender: New development in east London
The mayor of London has approved a new 27-storey development in east London
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Minister urged to suspend code timetable
Housebuilders have called for the government to suspend its plan to make new homes zero-carbon by 2016, after the housing minister admitted that “flexibility” was needed.
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Beckett: 'The Gateway is more than just London's backyard'
Video: Margaret Beckett launches the Thames Gateway Forum and reveals plans for an Institute of Sustainability
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Redrow chief joins HBF board
Neil Fitzsimmons to help give 'even more effective voice' to housebuilding industry body
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Morgan Sindall's Muse unveils £350m Swindon regeneration plan
Scheme in partnership with public sector includes bus station, hotel, leisure and health facilities as well as shops, offices and homes
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House prices steadier in November
But Nationwide says monthly fall of just 0.4% does not signal market recovery
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North Kent partnership plans to build 5,000 homes
Kent Thameside Regeneration Partnership unveils its strategy for the Kent Thameside Waterfront at the Thames Gateway Forum
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RDAs to reveal developments most at risk in Thames Gateway
Housing minister Margaret Beckett says RDAs will flag up developments hit by financial difficulties
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Taylor Wimpey: banks split over terms of rescue deal
Vocal minority of lenders push for equity guarantee as condition of refinancing package
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Think tank proposes energy 'MOTs' for homes
Government report includes radical proposals for meeting UK environmental targets
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Call for ban on social housing sell-offs
NHF demands temporary ban to prevent 'unsustainable' erosion of England's affordable housing stock
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Green Gateway
A new institute aims to turn the Thames Gateway into an environmentally friendly region
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Credit crunch turns regeneration global
Why a Basildon regeneration scheme is keeping an eye on the world's economies