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Redrow reviews southern operation

Window dressing

Both timber and PVCu manufacturers are meeting the growing demand for bespoke window designs as customers strive to achieve differentiation in new homes. Tim Palmer reports

Doors of perception

Allison Heller gets the lowdown on garage door trends, and finds out the meaning of Kanban and Kaizan

Opening time

Andrew Leech finds the role for doors in new housing is not simply an open and shut case

Fluid thinking

Competition in the utility laying sector could save housebuilders thousands of pounds a year. But, as Steve Menary reports, some water companies are not keen to relinquish full control

Wharf factor

Country && Metropolitan boss Stephen Wicks talks to Steve Menary about the firm’s ambitious Granary Wharf scheme in Leeds and the Middlesex firm’s drive for growth

Matters facts

Housebuilder’s legal team from Campbell Hooper - Heather O’Sullivan, Sara Hampson, Stuart Jordan and Bill Bidder - this month tackle reserved matters, collateral warranties and liquidated damages

Prefab progress

The government has hailed off site manufacture as some sort of panacea for the industry’s ills. Economist Kate Barker, on the other hand, says it won’t save much in terms of overall time or cost. Ben Roskrow talks to Westbury Homes which, through its Spac

[MMC-IMG=162-A=Left] the walrus

The Walrus reveals his firm’s Worst Kept Secret while wondering how an 80 year old can be the saviour of London’s latest Olympic bid

Battleground

Last month Laing Homes won an important case against Buckinghamshire County Council’s decision to register 38 acres of land as a village green and therefore stop development. Sue Jones of Laytons solicitors, which acted for Laing in the case, explains the