News – Page 251
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NewsBellway sees interim profit drop on fire safety costs
Pre-tax profit hit by £20m charge despite record completions in first six months of the year
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NewsAssociations announce merger plans to form top 20 landlord
PA Housing and Accent Group are in early discussions over creating one 44,000-home landlord
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NewsHouse sales ‘highest on record’ in February
HMRC reports spike in completed deals ahead of expected stamp duty holiday deadline
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NewsCertification body not set up to counter ‘deliberate misrepresentation’
‘Maybe we were naive,’ admits chief scientific officer as inquiry hears Arconic ignored 11 requests for information
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NewsL&G hires regen boss to drive ‘levelling up’ agenda
Former Morgan Sindall MD to oversee public partnerships
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NewsGovernment launches £562m housing retrofit drive
Policy to improve 50,000 homes branded ’simply not enough’ to tackle problem
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NewsPlans for £1bn Kensington tower scheme withdrawn
Move comes in advance of planning inquiry into controversial 30-storey scheme
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NewsCrest says 2021 profit to be above expectations
Shares in housebuilder up 5% as it reports strong weekly sales rate
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NewsHousing market sees post-Budget spike in demand
Chancellor’s stamp duty extension boosted interest among first-time buyers, says Zoopla
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NewsOusted Kier boss to chair Hull fire safety firm
Haydn Mursell left the top job at Kier two years ago
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NewsMPs reject bid to protect leaseholders from recladding costs
House of Lords amendment to the Fire Safety Bill is voted down by government
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NewsMPs slam 'disastrous' Green Homes Grant failure
Environmental audit committee calls on government to launch national retrofit strategy
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NewsNew L&Q chief exec slashes five-year build targets
Housing association says it will build 3,000 homes a year, down from 10,000 per annum ambition
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NewsRoad project seen as vital to Ox-Cam homes plan scrapped
£3.5bn Expressway project seen as vital to building of one million homes in the Oxford-Cambridge arc
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NewsUnite secures 700-bed Notts student housing permission
Announcement comes days after firm reported £120m pre-tax loss for 2020
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NewsDevelopers can’t pay for affordable housing, says British Land exec
Canada Water chief Roger Madelin said that general taxation should fund submarket housing
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NewsTaylor Wimpey and Countryside threatened with court action over leasehold scandal
Competition watchdog pledges action unless firms remove “doubling” ground rent clauses
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NewsCertifier reprimanded for ‘serious’ error in Grenfell insulation, inquiry hears
BBA’s certificate for Kingspan product described by inquiry counsel as ‘dangerously misleading’
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NewsPlans for 500 city centre homes approved in Southampton
Bargate Quarter scheme approved after retail and hotel space scaled back in wake of pandemic
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NewsLegal challenge launched to stop end of ’virtual planning’
Local government bodies seek judgment designed to prevent planning system “grinding to a halt” in May