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Oct. 1, 2007 Feature

The NHBC Foundation has produced a range of guides aimed at helping developers meet the government’s sustainable housebuilding targets. Satvinder Sahota discus…

Hot Property

Oct. 1, 2007 Feature

When Housebuilder this year polled readers on the industry’s most influential people, Kirstie Allsopp came in at a surprise fourth position. Stephen Hoare talk…

On Track

Oct. 1, 2007 Feature

Inspirational development plans held back by a lack of transport infrastructure? Mark Smulian discovers Kilbride Community Rail’s solution to this all too typi…

Development with attitude

Oct. 1, 2007 Feature

As the planning process becomes increasingly politicised, the key to consent often lies with a developer’s attitude to partnering and consultation. Andrew Howa…

Local authority

Oct. 1, 2007 Feature

The Tories are up for increasing housing supply but want to do away with the government’s topdown approach, says shadow housing minister Grant Shapps, who find…

Share dealing

Oct. 1, 2007 Feature

Increasing affordable housing supply without dipping into the public purse is a government priority. Colin Blakey tells Allison Heller how Bellway Housing Trus…

Mixed tenure agenda

Oct. 1, 2007 Feature

In a post-green paper world, mixed tenure communities are considered the only way forward and private investment is desperately needed to shore up social housi…

The £8 billion man

Oct. 1, 2007 Feature

The Housing Corporation’s acting chief executive Steve Douglas hit the ground running just as the government announced an ambitious new housing delivery progra…

Newhall’s new approach

Sept. 1, 2007 Feature

This month’s Development of the Month takes Steve Menary to Newhall in Harlow, Essex, where the Moen brothers have decided to take a greater stake in the land …

Policy washout

Sept. 1, 2007 Feature

The government faced a public backlash when forced to announce new housebuilding targets in the midst of summer deluges, which offered a portent of how flood-p…