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It’s a wrap

1 Dec 2005

Insulation manufacturers are confident they can help an industry still getting to grips with Part E insulation standards and tougher Part L regulations coming into effect next April. Tim Palmer reports

Ward winner

1 Dec 2005

Steve Menary visits Tower View in Glasgow, the historic Hawkshead asylum, which Miller Homes has painstakingly transformed into an award winning apartment complex

Cost of consent

1 Dec 2005

[MMC-IMG=2046-A=Left] Councillors’ power to refuse planning consent on a political whim is a costly problem which must be addressed

Consult && construct

1 Dec 2005

While few housebuilders would admit to a mission statement that is not based on a customer care ethos, few would expect to find the term bandied around by building control inspectors. But times are changing, reports Satvinder Sahota, and NHBC is taking a

Miller homes in

1 Dec 2005

Miller’s purchase of Fairclough has boosted its building programme across a number of regions, reports Steve Menary in our exclusive quarterly survey, while Barratt is upping the ante in London and the south east

The Walrus

1 Dec 2005

[MMC-IMG=2031-A=Left] The industry is unlikely to be sending many "trans man" and "trans woman" delegates to the mayor of London’s housing conference

Happy New Year

1 Dec 2005

Asking the right question

1 Dec 2005

[MMC-IMG=2021-A=Left] Government must recognise the industry’s need to respond to demand: attempts to implement utopian visions against the grain do not work, and the market will suffer

"Triple-headed" team to take on Telford

1 Dec 2005

When the industry’s three biggest players decided to bid for the right to develop an English Partnerships-owned former coalmine in Telford, some expected the sparks to fly. But the trio teamed up to win, and Chris Windle finds out how they plan to tackle