All Housing Delivery articles – Page 88
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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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NewsGovernment injects £83m into Notts urban extension
Money will allow Clowes to accelerate delivery of 3,000-home Fairham 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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NewsHyde seals 2,000-home development deal with M&G
Housing association’s chief executive stresses importance of new sources of finance in wake of cladding crisis
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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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NewsGrenfell cavity barriers only formally approved after fire, inquiry hears
Installed barriers had not been tested prior to use on tower’s refurbishment
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NewsHomes England names sites for six-year MMC study
Homes England to write annual report on progress of 1,800 homes
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NewsRICS sets out new EWS1 form guidance
Move designed to free up housing market by exempting flat blocks without cladding from need for fire assessment
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In FocusInterview: Stephen Teagle on boosting output at Vistry Partnerships
Partnerships boss has ambitions to ramp up number of homes delivered a year, as well as concerns over planning reforms and construction capacity
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NewsBuilding control ‘pressured’ into certifying Grenfell insulation, inquiry hears
Certificate from LABC became key part of Kingspan’s marketing literature for product used in Grenfell Tower
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NewsMissing rigged Celotex fire test was ‘very basic error,’ BRE manager tells Grenfell inquiry
BRE staff failed to notice two fire-resisting boards added to test rig to ensure a pass
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NewsCelotex ‘did not conceal’ rigged insulation test from BRE, Grenfell inquiry hears
Cladding installer says testing body was checking test rig the ‘whole time’
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NewsGrenfell cladding firm a ‘significant source of revenue’ for BRE, inquiry told
Hearing sees emails from BRE consultant saying desktop studies of Grenfell insulation could be ‘huge source of income’
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry: what we learnt from the BRE this week
Hearings focused on testing body’s role in certifying combustible building materials used on Grenfell tower as safe
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NewsBRE told about misapplied fire tests four years before Grenfell, inquiry hears
Manager at Kingspan rival Celotex emailed BRE flagging concerns in 2013
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NewsTechnician tells Grenfell Inquiry ‘busy’ burn hall caused insulation testing errors
BRE’s Phil Clark said the testing room could have ‘10 people in on any given day’
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NewsUrban & Civic picks Stonebond for first phase at Waterbeach
Housebuilder run by Cherry family to build first homes on 6,500-home south Cambridgeshire scheme
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NewsGovernment faces fire safety bill rebellion
Conservative backbench amendment aims to make sure leaseholders do not pay cladding repair costs
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NewsManager warned cladding firm to ‘urgently’ improve safety years before Grenfell fire
But Arconic continued selling Reynobond PE panels in the UK until a week after the Grenfell Tower fire