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<b>South Bedfordshire District Council</b> is currently considering a planning application for the development of 64 apartments at 35a Stanbridge Road, Leighton Buzzard. A decision is expected late 2005.

Market outlook improves

Ongoing market challenges have seen housebuilders turn in interim results reflecting mixed fortunes for the six months to June. Redrow and the Miller Group reported strong profit growth – Redrow’s pre-tax profits coming in at £141 million – up 14%, and Mi

Shelter survey rebuffed

Fundraiser seeks industry support for hospice

Sarah O’Grady, property editor of the Daily and Sunday Express, is appealing for housebuilders to support a fundraiser she is heading up in Peterborough on Saturday 19 November. The "Light Fantastic 05" champagne evening and auction will be held at the 17

Housing Corp changes bid process

The Housing Corporation has made changes to the next stage of the bidding process for its £3.9 billion of affordable housing funding in response to criticism from shortlisted contenders. "We have now extended the deadline by a couple of weeks to October 2

EP will publish new "national standards"

English Partnerships (EP) is drawing up a set of "national standards" that will apply to all new homes built on its sites, in an attempt to pull together the range of regulatory requirements and quality standards that developers will be required to meet i

Miliband rebukes nimby critics of housing supply increase plans

Communities minister David Miliband has delivered a feisty speech on the future of housebuilding, focusing on social justice and maintaining the nation’s economic health through adequate provision.

Lime Street regeneration to create new gateway to Liverpool

COMMENT - Allison Heller

[MMC-IMG=1861-A=Left] Gordon Brown spoke powerfully of the need to build the nation as "one moral country" in his address to the Labour Party Conference. And while housing was not top of the agenda during this year’s round of party conferences, the concep

Housing supply boost not hampered by industry labour and skills shortages

Skills shortages do not represent a barrier to the expansion of the housebuilding industry, according to a new report commissioned by CITB-ConstructionSkills and the Home Builders Federation.