All articles by Jo Smit 鈥� Page 2

  • Features

    Green and crescent land

    2002-03-27T00:00:00Z

    A small scheme to build 41 houses and 12 apartments on a football pitch site has heralded the start of a major estate regeneration project in Neasden, north-west London. Over the next nine years, 730 homes on the Resiform estate will be demolished and 530 new ones built.

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    City of fear

    2002-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Developers are delivering the high-density urban living Lord Rogers demanded, just as crime figures soar and public services break down. Are developers now paying the price for government underfunding?

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    The north will rise again

    2002-03-27T00:00:00Z

    The parallels between Manchester's upcoming Northern Quarter and Covent Garden in London are all too obvious. Both are based around former market buildings, and both rely on trendy one-off retailers and restaurants to create the sense of style and individuality that pulls in the crowds.

  • Features

    Small but perfectly formed

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Black Country Housing and Community Services Group caught a lot of attention two years ago with an ultra-green scheme at Bryce Road, Dudley, boasting composting toilets, photovoltaic panels, greywater recycling and a whole lot more.

  • Features

    Community test

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    In the first in our series of revisits, Alan Cherry, chairman of developer Countryside Properties, meets one of his customers at the Greenwich Millennium Village to review the successes and failures of the country's highest-profile sustainable community

  • Features

    The colour of money

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Do housebuilders have to go into the red in order to turn green? It looks like they do, because putting in ecological features can be so expensive that payback times may never come.

  • Features

    Green and bright

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The team behind the timber-clad, grass-roofed techno-home known as the Integer House is to make a start on raising the IQ and lowering the energy bills of the rest of the country’s housing stock.

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    New breed of Eco flats

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Manchester is to accommodate one of the first of a new breed of green high-rise housing blocks, with the development of an eco-tower at Taylor Woodrow Capital Developments’ Macintosh Village.

  • Features

    Netherlands

    2002-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Easy going Dutch?

  • 精东影视

    Plant more trees, says Bellamy

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Television pundit and academic David Bellamy wants housebuilders to plant 16 trees every time they build a house.

  • 精东影视

    Housebuilders' bosses quit after divisions are merged

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Rationalising initiatives at Berkeley Group and Crest Nicholson have led managing directors to leave.