Riverside reflections
Barking Riverside is a big joint venture with interesting angles and opportunities. Suzie Mayes pays a visit to the multifaceted scheme.
Merry Christmas Mr Pickles
Stephen Byfield, managing director of communications consultancy PPS Group, sends festive greetings to the communities secretary – but wishes he was acting quicker on planning reform.
"We all live in a Fred Story house".
Carlisle based Story Homes is looking to double its housebuilding programme in the next three years. Ben Roskrow meets the charismatic Fred Story, engineer, housebuilder and one time owner of Carlisle United FC.
The weakest link?
According to the NHBC, increasing solar PV installations are leading to more problems with leaking roofs. Redland’s head of marketing and business development Richard Hartley suggests a reason why
Steady applications
Steve Menary looks at the latest planning league tables for the year to September 2011 which show who is planning to build and where. Applications are up in six out of nine English regions as well as in Scotland
Housebuilder awards 2011
Housebuilder presents the winners and runners up of its prestigious Awards, created for the industry by the industry, which showcase the most imaginative schemes, products and initiatives housebuilding has to offer
The Top 25 Housebuilders
The new Housing Market Intelligence Report will be launched at the Housing Market Intelligence conference on October 12. It includes the Top 75 housebuilders table plus detailed analysis of what is happening in all aspects of the industry – the market, planning, mortgages, regulations and much more. On the next pages Housing Market Intelligence Report editor Brian Green gives a taste of the findings of the report and reveals the Top 25 of the 75 builders, ranked by seven criteria.
Renewing interest
The renewables technology market is in its infancy. Recognising this, the NHBC Foundation has produced a best practice guide to installing renewable energy systems. NHBC’s Graham Perrior takes a look inside
That elusive allocation
Stephen Byfield of PPS Group says that, with the localism agenda, strategic land departments will have to speed up
