Stealth planning guidance
Joshua Risso-Gill of law firm Denton Wilde Sapte looks at last year's Barratt/Tower Hamlets ruling on affordable housing requirements and finds it shows that courts are not keen to get involved in issues of planning judgement.
Former glory
The modern housebuilding market requires developers to learn new skills in refurb and restoration. HouseBuilder reports on Prowting's first foray into this strange territory
Greenfield...
<b>Parting of the Pidgleys</b> Thank goodness that former Berkeley chairman Graham Roper was safely out of earshot and virtually forgotten in semi-retirement when the Pidgleys took their fateful walk along a beach in Barbados and decided, after 30 painful
Moves and appointments
Fairclough has appointed <b>David Cummings</b> as construction director for the firm's northern home counties division.
Renovation buzz
Jeremy Gates talks to Colin Brooks, managing director of Bewley Homes, about his plans for the firm and the role the young Brooks will play in the development of the firm.
Regulation fatigue?
Part M, Part L, Part E - it's all change for the Building Regulations. And there's more to come, with each revision disrupting the housebuilding process. Could there be a better way forward? Andrew Leech finds out.
Urban theme in the east
Jeremy Gates heads east to report on a site in Hackney which could prove to be significant in the latest wave of urban regeneration initiatives
Good doesn't mean beautiful
Will Howie welcomes the ministerial zeal surrounding the good design "initiative". But he has his doubts about whether it will result in beautiful buildings
Housing risk to euro membership
The Prime Minister says there will be a euro referendum within two years of the general election. <b>John Stewart</b> considers what euro membership would mean for Britain's housebuilders
A man who likes to keep things private
Linden chief executive Philip Davies has just taken his company back into private ownership. He explains to Ben Roskrow why the firm's continuing success on brownfield developments is one of the major reasons for leaving the City
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