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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

diary dates

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

shades of grey

[MMC-IMG=711-A=Left] Angela South, sales and marketing director at Beechcroft, says that the population may be aging but its outlook and needs reflect those of a dynamic and demanding sector. This informs her firm’s marketing approach.

Designs on quality

Florida’s highly acclaimed Seaside development was built to strict design codes – the very same planning tool the government hopes will hold the key to improved urban design and speedier planning processes. Pilot projects are kicking off – so can we expec

The summer season sees us turn our attention to the economy. But who should we believe when it comes to forecasting – the economists, the media, or our own gut instincts?

[MMC-IMG=709-A=Left] It is summertime but for the boards of housebuilders up and down the country, the living is very far from easy because this is the time when the thoughts of many turn to the setting of budgets, forecasts for the year ahead, or in the