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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 and that impact this may have on the structure of the industry in coming years

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 perspective on project challenges

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 developers to liability for contamination caused by others

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 planned programmes

Dirty minded

As housebuilders focus on brownfield sites to provide development opportunities, the challenges and legal complexities of remediation have come to the fore. Tim Palmer considers the issues, while experts from remediation specialists <a href="/articles/art

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, which has a number of features designed in association with consultant Energy for Sustainable

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?

Mind the gap

A study for local authorities in the south east has identified an £8 billion infrastructure funding shortfall in the region. Mark Smulian considers the problem of how the gap might be plugged, as councils threaten to derail the government’s housing growth

Build on this

[MMC-IMG=1794-A=Left] Will Howie is intrigued by Policy Exchange’s latest report on the supply of land for housing, which argues that the planning system is having a detrimental effect on living conditions