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Scots free

Dec. 1, 2004

The Scottish housebuilding market has its own set of planning and land use challenges, some similar to those in England, others rather different. Here Bruce Walker, land director of Scottish housebuilder Robertson Homes, argues that the Scots would be bet

Off-site benefits

Dec. 1, 2004

[MMC-IMG=1185-A=Left] Patrick Dormon, md of Space4, Westbury's off-site manufacturing brand, offers some advice on the advantages of implementing and marketing an innovative approach to housebuilding

Domus turns copper to gold

Dec. 1, 2004

[MMC-IMG=1183-A=Left] Cala's Domus development at Newhall in Harlow, Essex features a bullet-shaped “Copper Sun Mill” apartment building and barrel-vaulted zinc roofs. Steve Menary takes a look around the contemporary scheme, which has been described as “

in the pipeline

Dec. 1, 2004

Adapt and survive

Dec. 1, 2004

Ben Roskrow talks to Mike Stansfield about the rationale behind the restructuring that made him chairman of David Wilson Homes, and the diversification underway at what was once the most traditional of housebuilders