News – Page 258
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NewsHopes government-backed professional indemnity will ease cladding bottleneck
Initiative to help surveyors unable to obtain insurance to sign off EWS1 fire safety forms
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NewsGrenfell inquiry: Arconic did not withdraw combustible cladding because of ‘cost implications’
Sales manager made admission in secretly recorded phone call in the days after the fire
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NewsGovernment to claw back unspent Green Homes Grant funding
Just 5% of a £1.5bn retrofit fund has been spent in four months with two months left to spend the remaining 95%
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NewsWork to replace ACM cladding started on all affected social housing blocks
Government also reveals that more than 2,000 applications have been made to the Building Safety Fund
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NewsHousing market turned negative in January, says RICS
The surveyors’ institution’s monthly survey finds demand and sales falling for first time since first lockdown
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NewsDevelopers respond to anouncement of £2bn cladding taxes
Government warned that measures to solve building safety crisis could have unintended consequences
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NewsGleeson says full-year results will beat expectations
Northern housebuilder’s profit for first half of financial year is up 52%
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NewsBusinesses urge Jenrick to ditch blanket resi PD right for high streets
Groups representing shops and developers write to housing secretary over radical permitted development plan
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NewsGrenfell inquiry: Arconic sales manager knew Grenfell cladding would burn
Internal email in 2014 warned of dangers of ACM after Middle East fires
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NewsJenrick slammed over £3.5bn cladding fund announcement
Campaigners allege ‘betrayal’ as new money will only cover buildings higher than six storeys, with others forced to take out loans
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NewsGrainger says one in ten rental flats empty
Residential landlord sees rental income grow but ‘delay’ to lettings recovery during latest lockdown
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NewsRedrow to trial infrared heating to beat gas boiler ban
Housebuilder says it will look at national rollout to meet new regulations from 2025
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NewsGrenfell product firm told staff not to share details of flammable cladding, inquiry hears
Manager repotredly told sales staff who asked not to share technical documents
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NewsInfluential architect backs freedoms to convert offices to housing
Norman Foster says office buildings abandoned during the pandemic could become ’residential towers of the future’
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NewsKeepmoat buys Firbeck colliery site for 400 homes
Housebuilder to regenerate vacant South Yorkshire plot
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NewsJenrick poised to announce £5bn cladding fund
Press reports say housing secretary also considering £2bn developer levy
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NewsBellway upgrades volume expectations
Housebuilder now says it will build around 9,800 homes in the year to July 31
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NewsBrick By Brick sale only chance of avoiding ‘managed wind-down’
Croydon-owned housing company will only build out schemes already on-site unless buyer can be found
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NewsKingspan technical adviser did not see Grenfell insulation test reports, inquiry hears
Fire test reports on combustible K15 insulation were ‘kept secret’
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NewsTopHat completes Kent modular scheme
Offsite start-up says the 20 homes contain less embodied carbon than one traditionally built house