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Small builders take brunt of sound charges

Proposed new sound insulation regulations will require housebuilders to fund and carry out pre-completion tests on new attached homes to ensure they comply wit…

Comment from the editor

Fair comment on unsound proposals The problem with a whole industry being labelled as "whingers" is that it is supremely difficult to shake off that tag. So an…

Forum facts

Marcus Keys, Housing Forum project manager, takes a look at the organisation's latest report on its demonstration projects, launched at its October conference.

Rights of third parties

Neil Price of law firm Hammond Suddards Edge looks at the impact that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act will have on contracts for work and materials…

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Moves and appointments

McCarthy && Stone has appointed Simon Clift as its executive commercial director. He will direct the planning and construction of more than 1500 flats in the c…

Bard of Richmond

Jeremy Gates talks to Garry Stewart - poet, script writer and managing director of Richmond Homes of Dunfermline, Scotland.

Housing the bus pass generation

The number of elderly people in the UK is set to soar in the next few years. But they won't want to live in nursing homes for their care - increasingly they wa…

View from a Thames tower

Ben Roskrow talks to Persimmon deputy chairman Mike Allen about the innovative Icon development in London's Docklands and looks at other schemes under the Pers…

A pre-Budget pinch of salt is required

Housebuilding journalist of the year John Stewart looks at the housing implications of chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report