News – Page 250
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NewsStorey Homes secures £24m funding deal
Revolving facility will allow SME housebuilder to develop Bidwell West scheme
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NewsL&G poaches Grainger and Savills execs for Suburban Build to Rent venture
Staff will join project to deliver 1,000 new family homes for rent a year
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NewsFirst images of Battersea Power Station’s great glass elevator
Glass lift will carry visitors to top of rebuilt chimney above 3,500-home regeneration scheme
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NewsAnchor Hanover to build UK’s first LGBT+ extra-care housing
Later-life housing provider also about to launch new architecture framework
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NewsGallagher sets date to delist housebuilder Abbey
Developer increases holding in Anglo-Czech firm to 98%
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NewsGreen Homes Grant to be scrapped this week
Abolition of £3bn domestic energy retrofit scheme is ‘misguided’, construction firms say
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NewsMPs join call for extra care housing task force
Parliamentarians join charities and trade bodies in writing letter to the PM
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NewsMortgage lending spikes on stamp duty effect
Amount borrowed hit five-year peak in February, but new approvals fell back
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NewsPlanning hiatus expected as virtual committees to end
Government confirms it will not extend emergency covid powers which have allowed councils to hold planning committees online
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NewsRedfern ‘no regrets’ over Taylor Wimpey’s lockdown shutdown
Chief executive tells Housing Today he took an ’honest decision’ in 2020 to close sites, despite financial impact on business
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NewsConstruction sites to keep extended working hours until autumn
Measures introduced last May allow jobs to stay open until 9pm
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NewsFormer Grenfell insulation boss denies MPs’ dinner was attempt to stop combustibles ban
Senior Kingspan staff attended January 2018 dinner at Palace of Westminster months after Grenfell fire, inquiry hears
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NewsBuilding safety regulator to take on 700 staff
Group has been set up following 2018 Hackitt report into Grenfell fire
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NewsSenior Homes England figure quits to run design charity Public Practice
Departure of Pooja Agrawal follows appointment of charity’s current boss as Malmo city architect
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NewsGovernment takes control of Liverpool council’s planning and regeneration teams
Action as damning report following fraud probe finds ‘deeply concerning picture of mismanagement’
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NewsOwners of 900 unsafe buildings ‘unable to provide basic information’, minister says
Housing minister Chris Pincher says issue is slowing down safety push
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NewsDeal signed on 500-home Oxford ‘life sciences’ district
Developer and council agree £8m of planning contributions to allow scheme to proceed
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NewsHouse prices dropped in January
First official figures confirm slight falls ahead of chancellor’s stamp duty holiday extension announcement
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NewsRetrofits of Victorian homes can cut CO2 emissions by more than 80%
Historic England says improvements needed on the fifth of buildings in England which are over a century old
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NewsKingspan director denies misleading Grenfell Inquiry over rigged fire test
Adrian Pargeter says ‘powers of recollection…deserted me’ when giving evidence last December