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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

Logging on

Andrew Leech finds that the timber frame industry is pulling out all the stops in producing accurate timber frames through its investment in high tech machinery to meet growing demand and, of course, Building Regulations requirements

The insulation game

Insulation manufacturers are confident they will meet proposed changes to Part L. Tim Palmer reports on the latest wall and floor solutions, designed to avoid reducing floorspace, along with external and structural insulation options

Peter Russell - Charlton Homes

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Lie of the land

A new report on land use planning in Scotland is calling for serious reform if the country's housing needs are to be tackled. Jim Ross, managing director of Cala Finance Scotland, which last month hosted a briefing on the report, looks at its findings

Scots free

The Scottish housebuilding market has its own set of planning and land use challenges, some similar to those in England, others rather different. Here Bruce Walker, land director of Scottish housebuilder Robertson Homes, argues that the Scots would be bet

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Off-site benefits

[MMC-IMG=1185-A=Left] Patrick Dormon, md of Space4, Westbury's off-site manufacturing brand, offers some advice on the advantages of implementing and marketing an innovative approach to housebuilding

Domus turns copper to gold

[MMC-IMG=1183-A=Left] Cala's Domus development at Newhall in Harlow, Essex features a bullet-shaped “Copper Sun Mill” apartment building and barrel-vaulted zinc roofs. Steve Menary takes a look around the contemporary scheme, which has been described as “