Getting nowhere fast
Detailed research on the planning system, carried out for this year’s Housing Market Intelligence Report, reveals that "tricky" planning applications are being…
Rapid rising
The acquisition of Country && Metropolitan has projected Gladedale closer to its target of building more than 6,000 homes a year. Steve Menary talks to founder…
Smooth scaling
Brian Green looks at how Britain’s biggest housebuilders performed in 2004, assessing how they have adapted to the onset of more challenging market conditions …
Introduction
Don’t mess up
[MMC-IMG=1805-A=Left] Peter Nelson, md of the land and property division of Cofton, which buys, remediates and sells on contaminated sites, offers his perspect…
Keeping it clean
[MMC-IMG=1804-A=Left] Susan Hawker and Philip Matthews at commercial law firm Wedlake Bell explain the implications of a recent High Court case, which exposes …
Dishing the dirt
[MMC-IMG=1806-A=Left] Clive Barnwell, director of land remediation specialist Vertase, offers some advice on how housebuilders can benefit from carefully plann…
Dirty minded
As housebuilders focus on brownfield sites to provide development opportunities, the challenges and legal complexities of remediation have come to the fore. Ti…
Biomassive
[MMC-IMG=1798-A=Left] In line with this month’s sustainability focus, Steve Menary visits Titanic Mills, Lowry Renaissance’s mill redevelopment in Huddersfield…
The Walrus
[MMC-IMG=1797-A=Left] Information on the new Part L has been leaked through The Guardian newspaper – perhaps Part F will be announced in The Beano?
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