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Rights Off

Sept. 1, 2003

<b>We are buying a parcel of land for development and our seller has offered to get his site reports readdressed to us. Is that good enough?</b>

Hot Seat

Sept. 1, 2003

Clive Collisson, managing director of County Homes by Ambrosden Court, sometimes takes to the air Biggles-style to check out progress on site.

Takeovers tune market

Sept. 1, 2003

Housebuilder’s enhanced survey of “who’s building where” reveals the effects of recent takeovers and suggests an easing off in applications in some areas. Steve Menary analyses the results

Nightmare

Sept. 1, 2003

What keeps housebuilders awake at night? What are the big worries for the industry? Housebuilder surveyed scores of key industry figures to uncover the big issues exercising their minds, ranked according to their “nightmare rating”. Steve Menary presents

The Investigator

Sept. 1, 2003

[MMC-IMG=223-A=Right] Bank of England monetary policy committee member and former CBI chief economist Kate Barker is part way through her government-commissioned investigation into housing undersupply. She chats with Allison Heller about what she has disc

Stormy summer in Westminster

Sept. 1, 2003

Will Howie looks back on an unusually lively summer at Westminster for both the government and the housebuilding sector.

[MMC-IMG=208-A=Left] Getting the message across

Sept. 1, 2003

John Stewart draws some personal lessons from his work on the Barker Review of housing supply

[MMC-IMG=207-A=Left] Land battle mustn’t draw fire from planning fight

Sept. 1, 2003

The battlelines of the Barker Review era are now being drawn - and the war, as ever, will be over land. Who owns it and what are they planning to do with it?

Land banks are a necessity - Barker

Sept. 1, 2003

Kate Barker, the Bank of England economist charged with investigating housing undersupply, has accepted the need for housebuilders to hold realistic land banks in order to effectively run their business. In an exclusive interview with Housebuilder she sai

Construction deaths continue to fall

Sept. 1, 2003

Seventy-one workers were killed in the construction industry last year, the second lowest figure recorded, dropping from 80 the year before and 105 in 2000-2001.