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Government-backed design seminars kick off

Squished house is a winner

Record results for Barratt

Changes to planning system from midnight tonight

Taylor Woodrow to buy Wilson Connolly

Team Control

NHBC has expanded its building control service and launched a dedicated team that will focus specifically on commercial developments. Diane Marshall, who heads the team, explains why the new service was established and how it will complement NHBC’s reside

Appointments

[MMC-IMG=226-A=Right] <b>Redrow</b> Robert Monkman has been appointed managing director of Redrow Homes South Midlands in Northampton, the firm’s newest regional company. He was previously md of the Eastern division.

Westbury’s Space4 off-site construction plant has been praised by the deputy prime minister John Prescott as “the new kind of housing production we want to see”.

In the Pipeline

Work has recently commenced on site for 44 houses and flats at Elgin Road, Cowdenbeath. The developer and builder is David Boyack Homes.

Lack of affordable housing fuels crisis

A massive drop in the level of social and affordable housing is to blame for the crisis in the UK housing market, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).