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Health && Safety first

The housebuilding industry has launched its own Health and Safety Charter committing participants to deliver an annual action plan detailing a rolling programme of work to improve site safety. The vision of those promoting the charter is to provide an env

The ins and outs of sustainability

Greenwich Millennium Village in London and Childwall Neighbourhood, Liverpool are the first ever winners of the Sustainable New Homes Awards, launched by HBF and the World Wide Fund for Nature to recognise schemes that are sustainable on both the way that

Royal nod for Planning Bill

The much-delayed Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill finally got its Royal Assent on May 13, after the government was forced to capitulate to the Lords on key proposals in to get the Bill through.

Hanson Award for Beechcroft

Beechcroft’s Allcourt development at Lechlade on Thames in Gloucestershire has won the Hanson Award as the finest greenleaf example of the year at the 2003 greenleaf awards.

Housing Design Awards 2004 shortlist announced

Empty homes initiative won't cure housing crisis - Barker

Poll says public accepts need for new homes

Hope for Parts L and E combination

Housebuilders get new health and safety charter

Government to begin design code trials