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PPG3 fears allayed

Feb. 1, 2005

Prescott asks EP to launch £60,000 home competition

Feb. 1, 2005

[MMC-IMG=1237-A=Right] The government is turning to housebuilders to deliver low price homes under its First Time Buyer Initiative announced in the new Five Ye…

New RD handbooks now available

Feb. 1, 2005

A new batch of standard constructions that are deemed to comply with sound insulation requirements under Part E of the Buildings Regulations have been approved…

Excellent EcoHomes standard must be the minimum – Porritt

Feb. 1, 2005

[MMC-IMG=1235-A=Left] New homes that are not built to the EcoHomes Excellent standard are a design failure and will hamper the government’s attempt to meet its…

Second home buyers to be banned from Yorkshire Dales new homes market

Feb. 1, 2005

In a radical new plan to deal with rural residents being priced out of their own communities by city-dwelling second home buyers, the Yorkshire Dales National …