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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

Paper clips rural concerns

Will Howie looks at the government's idea of building on agricultural land to solve the rural housing crisis and finds conflicting views on the attractiveness …

Building in the wake of the floods

Housebuilders took some of the flak following the recent flooding, and they're not best pleased about it. Ben Roskrow looks at what the industry is doing to al…

Design award deadline draws near

With PPG3, can you afford not to enter the Housing Design Awards for 2001?

Death figures spark safety summit

A construction safety summit has been set up for next February following the publication of "shocking" figures on fatalities for the industry. Representatives …