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Clad culture

Cladding is increasingly appearing on new homes, bringing new design elements in copper, concrete, timber and PVCu and a New England architectural style to the likes of Kent and Bournemouth. Fiona McWilliam takes a look at the effects of this trend, and w

Over our heads

Tim Palmer looks at today’s options for roof coverings and delves below the surface into the world of breather membranes and trusses

About Average

[MMC-IMG=723-A=Left] Stamp duty land tax, stopping highways and retention money. All covered this month by our legal team from Campbell Hooper, Heather O’Sullivan, Sara Hampson, Stuart Jordan and Bill Bidder

Pukka partnership

Peckham’s thin red line sounds like a pitch for a film from the area’s most famous resident, cockney wideboy Derek Trotter. Yet unlike the fictional Only Fools && Horses star, this red line actually existed. Snaking its way through Peckham’s notorious Fiv

Hot Seat

[MMC-IMG=719-A=Left] Jim Ross, md (Scotland) of CALA Finance, sits in the Hot Seat and heaps praise on Jack Nicklaus while learning to be positive from Jack Black. Isn’t he the star of School of Rock?

Design Council

Design excellence is easier to achieve when all sides are striving for the same goals. Kent County Council has been working with the housebuilding industry for several years to improve design in the county. Ben Roskrow talks to both the council leader and

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The Walrus

[MMC-IMG=717-A=Left] Euro 2004 has got the Walrus thinking. What if the big football clubs had to play to the sort of rules now applied to the housebuilding industry? Footie stars would start to play on level playing fields both literally and metaphorical

Sites worth seeing

[MMC-IMG=715-A=Left] Polish your site boots and buff up your brickwork, NHBC’s Pride in the Job competition is launched this month. NHBC’s Building Inspectors are currently out on sites across the UK handpicking the potential winners from more than 17,000

Helen Board rounds-up this month’s developments, which range from contemporary townhouses in Beckenham to a 36-apartment development in tranquil Wimbledon Village