House Building policy, regulation, planning, technology, product features

Infrastructure or bust

Aug. 1, 2007 Feature

Gordon Brown has put the planning gain supplement on ice while the industry explores alternative ways of raising cash for infrastructure. Mark Smulian reports on a tax being trialled in Surrey, which, like the PGS, aims to milk smaller schemes

Northern lights

Aug. 1, 2007 Feature

Newcastle/Gateshead city centre is a picture postcard of urban regeneration. But across the north east, Bellway faces a tough challenge in building a viable housing market in the heart of rundown sink estates. In the second of our three urban renewal special features, regional md Barry Miller talks to Allison Heller

Going to ground

July 1, 2007 Feature

With brownfield land now accounting for the majority of new home sites, housebuilders are facing increasingly complex remediation issues. Ashley Rogers finds there is help at hand

Assessing archaeological risk: An integrated approach

July 1, 2007 Feature

Simon McCudden, head of heritage at Scott Wilson, offers some expert advice on handling an on-site archaeological discovery

From the groundup

July 1, 2007 Feature

Housebuilders are looking for clever solutions to increasingly complex groundworks challenges. Andrew Leech investigates the products and services on offer

On air

July 1, 2007 Feature

As the government drives through the code for sustainable homes, airtightness remains a key focus of new homes’ sustainability. NHBC’s Satvinder Sahota takes a look at the challenges facing developers and at how the NHBC can help

Development of the month

July 1, 2007 Feature

Attention to detail is fundamental to Carrot’s approach. Steve Menary checks out the niche developer’s L’Ecole scheme in north London, where a Victorian schoolhouse conversion is coupled with a brand new contemporary apartment building

Cross purposes

July 1, 2007 Feature

Cross subsidy deals done to fund on-site affordable housing and estate regeneration are eroding traditional boundaries between housebuilders, housing associations and ALMOs, reports Mark Smulian

Urban renewal focus: salford

July 1, 2007 Feature

In 2011 the BBC will move to Salford. Chris Windle finds out how it is kick-starting regeneration in a city where the housing market had collapsed, in the first of our three, monthly urban renewal special features focused on Salford, Newcastle and London

High hopes

July 1, 2007 Feature

A daunting task awaits the newly created National Housing and Planning Advice Unit. It must arrest and reverse an apparently inexorable rise in the number of people economically excluded from the housing market, reports Chris Webb

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