All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 22
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NewsHead of new building safety regulator appointed
HSE veteran Peter Baker to lead ‘biggest change in building safety for a generation’
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NewsFirm stopped selling Grenfell cladding in France over fire safety, inquiry hears
But UK sales manager of product firm Arconic says he was not told to do so in the UK
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NewsAvanton announces 5,000-home London build-to-rent drive
Developer says it has £500m land fund to buy sites over next two years
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NewsGrenfell inquiry: What we learnt from product makers last week
Details of combustible materials were kept under wraps, inquiry hears in first week back after two-month pause
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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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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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NewsTopHat completes Kent modular scheme
Offsite start-up says the 20 homes contain less embodied carbon than one traditionally built house
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NewsSouthwark buys council home site on Canada Water regen scheme
Planning permission already in place as part of British Land’s 3,000-home redevelopment
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NewsJanuary sees sharpest house price fall since April
Mortgage lender Halifx says prices were down by 0.3% last month compared to December
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NewsTaylor Wimpey wins permission for £1.4bn Battersea estate regeneration
Scheme designed by HTA to provide up to 2,550 new homes
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NewsSwindon developer buys into 12,000-home New Eastern Village scheme
Capital Land Property Group purchases one fifth of the regeneration project
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NewsBellway buys south London lido site for 168 homes
Firm acquires land in Croydon at former Purley Way Lido
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NewsConsultation due on post-Grenfell code for construction products
Initiative by Constructioni Products Association is to fight misleading marketing by firms
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NewsTfL’s largest ever housing scheme receives planning
HOK-designed west London development will feature 850 homes
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NewsWellcome Trust inks £506m takeover of Urban & Civic
Urban Civic delisted from the stock exchange on Thursday
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NewsWork finally set to start on troubled £70m Leeds housing scheme
Scheme being built by McAlpine has been delayed by Brexit, the collapse of Carillion and covid-19
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NewsHousing set for mid-year slump following end of government support schemes, CPA warns
But activity set to pick up again later in the year as wider economy rebounds from the pandemic
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NewsBoklok strikes 750-home deal with Hampshire housing association
Skanska and Ikea joint venture to provide homes across the south of England
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NewsArchitects warn that ‘right to regenerate’ plan could result in a ‘horror story’
Proposals would allow public to force councils to sell underused land