Push for builders to fund flood defences and drains
Builders must fund the provision and maintenance of flood defences and sustainable drainage measures under new draft planning guidance published by the governm…
Part M prompts major changes
Three quarters of all housebuilders' standard house types have been redesigned in the light of changes to Building Regulations on disabled access. One in six h…
Tied up in a red tape tangle
Housebuilders have legitimate concerns about the effect on their business of ongoing changes to the Building Regulations. Although the industry accepts that th…
Award winning practices
The best site managers in the UK have now been announced in NHBC's Pride In the Job (PIJ) awards. Adrian Murrell looks at what the Supreme Award winners have d…
Greenfield...
McCarthy bows out Perhaps a sturdy stone building which felt like a church and used suits of armour pegged to the wall as the main form of interior decoration …
Moves and appointments
Richard Hough has been appointed commercial director of Swan Hill Homes. Hough was previously divisional finance director at the firm.
Peter's Principle
Jeremy Gates talks to Peter Owen, chief executive and founder of Grenville Homes, Guildford, who is applying his Berkeley background to his new firm.
What brings firms to the verge of a merge?
The proposed, but ultimately unsuccessful, merger of Beazer and Bryant instigated a wave of corporate activity among housebuilders. Jeremy Gates looks at why t…
It's all in the planning...
DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONTH - Thorley Lane, Bishop's Stortford by Countryside Properties
New faces in new places
As part of its restructuring NHBC has boosted the number of regional directors in order to improve local service to housebuilders. HouseBuilder reports.
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