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New rural affordable housing policy

Gardens add thousands

SEERA backs fewer homes

Pooling resources

[MMC-IMG=1318-A=Left] The government’s push for higher density housing is enabling the greenbelt to be preserved, and even added to. Those pining for five-bedroom homes with swimming pools should move to Tuscany or Florida, suggests Will Howie

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Timber frame and Insulation

Go with the flow

What will next year bring? Higher interest rates? A decline in house prices? The combination of the two can have a devastating impact on your company's cashflow with perhaps terminal consequences. Mark Smillie of insolvency practitioner Middleton Partners

Sloppy Service

[MMC-IMG=1211-A=Left] The newly completed Scottish Parliament building is certainly striking. But the construction process, which was a catalogue of delays, disagreements and overblown budgets, holds some important lessons for the wider building industry

Annual checkup

NHBC's building control manager, Neil Cooper, along with group technical manager Neil Smith and health and safety manager Simon Mantle have put together a handy update of some of the key issues from the past year that housebuilders will need to keep an ey

Spiderman

Victor Savage of planning consultants and surveyors, Savage && Partners, has been inspired by an article in Housebuilder to rewrite a Marmaduke Dixey poem to encapsulate the peculiarities of today's planning system. It was so good we decided to run it in