News – Page 204
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NewsBEIS allocates £179m for social housing energy efficiency works
Funding allocations for 69 local authorities announced
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NewsGrainger and TFL get green light for 351-home scheme
Joint venture secures permission for fourth rental scheme
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NewsGove threatens to stop housebuilders trading unless they pay into cladding fund
Housing secretary steps up war of words with developers
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NewsEWS1 forms will still be used for several years, lenders warn
Fire risk assessment process will take a long time says UK Finance
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NewsInfrastructure loan fund will have £624m to spend
The new ‘Home Building Fund’ was announced as part of this week’s levelling up white paper
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NewsGovernment provided building control body with a ‘pre-prepared script’ amid media scrutiny after Grenfell fire
Official wrote to the NHBC asking it to rebut claims that tower’s combustible cladding panels complied with building regulations
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NewsMPs criticise 'unclear' plans to replace gas boilers in UK homes
Public in the dark and lacking direction over policy to install 600,000 heat pumps in homes, cross-party committee report says
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NewsBuilders merchants’ sales grew 30% last year during supply chain squeeze
Analyst calls the figures “remarkable” but warns further supply issues could hit the industry in 2022
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NewsNHBC approved combustible materials because scrutinising them was too ‘time consuming’
Fire engineer at building control body admits the approach was a ‘dangerous mistake’
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NewsHomes England details new ‘levelling up’ housing funds
Agency sets out funding criteria for new development finance and infrastructure pots as it is given new regen role
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NewsIndustry underwhelmed by Gove’s levelling up vision
Housing and construction bodies criticise lack of detail in long-awaited white paper
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NewsMcCarthy & Stone pledges half of future development to use MMC
Retirement housing giant doubles target for offsite homes
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NewsFire safety guidance change will ‘fundamentally’ reduce repair costs
Ballymore boss says the withdrawal of the Consolidated Advice Note set to significantly reduce scope of works
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NewsRICS boss hits back at Gove’s plan for new monitoring powers over body
Interim chief executive Richard Collins questions purpose of planned statutory governance reviews
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News4,000 homes in Cambridgeshire given green light
‘Largest new town since Milton Keynes’ planned by Homes England
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NewsDevelopers ‘don’t know’ how many 11-18m blocks affected by fire safety crisis
HBF working with government to produce reliable numbers as housebuilders argue Gove’s £4bn repair estimate too high
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NewsHousing funding rules set for overhaul to support ‘levelling up’
‘80/20 rule’ axed to channel more Homes England money into the north and midlands
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NewsKingspan threatened cladding firm with legal action if it revealed results of failed fire test
Grenfell Inquiry hears the 2008 test had failed within 15 minutes with ‘flames coming off the top of the test rig’
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NewsCity of London backs 644-bed student-housing scheme
LSE-focused Holborn Viaduct development replaces proposals for “capital’s greenest building”
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NewsBallymore told to fix New Providence Wharf remediation issues
Boss promises MPs he will address alleged poor communication and low temperatures within two weeks