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Making the leap

Housebuilders feeling unloved by the City or their parent company may be tempted by the greater freedom and profit opportunities offered by a management buy-out. Allison Heller talks to those who’ve taken the plunge about what it takes to make it.

Diary dates

<h2>November</h2>

[MMC-IMG=316-A=Left] The walrus

Reds can crawl out from under their beds as Walrus leads a socialist call to arms (or tusks) to sweep the housebuilding establishment aside and replace it with something marginally worse.

Meeting of the minds

<table width=300 align=right><tr><td>[MMC-IMG=315-A=Center]<br><i>Bank of England economist Kate Barker listens intently as housing minister Keith Hill challenges the industry to meet the government agenda </i></td></tr></table>More than 200 industry dele

Governments in glass houses...

Will Howie warms to the idea of building on brownfield land but thinks the government needs to look at its own land bank.

Appointments

[MMC-IMG=308-A=Right] Barratt bricklaying apprentice Matthew Dunlop has been promoted to assistant site manager on the housebuilder’s Virginia Quay development in London Docklands.

London exodus

London faces an exodus of key workers because of a lack of affordable housing, according to new research from the Keep London Working partnership. More than one in five nurses (21%) and 13% of teachers interviewed for the study said they wanted to leave t

Boost for rural housing

The Countryside Agency has launched a set of design guidelines for local authorities in a bid to improve the quality of rural developments.

In the pipeline

Barratt (Leeds) is awaiting planning approval for the conversion of Britannia Mills in Bingley. The company submitted plans to convert the mills into 48 apartments in a £5.2 million project designed by John R Paley Associates.