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    From Gove with LURB

    Grant Leggett, executive director, Boyer, considers how the Government’s aim to penalise developers for l ...

    Grant Leggett, executive director, Boyer, considers how the Government’s aim to penalise developers for land banking gives the Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill a bad name. In its recent revisions ...

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    Designing for water quality

    Now there are verified mitigation indices for engineered SuDS components says Stuart Crisp, UK manager at ...

    Now there are verified mitigation indices for engineered SuDS components says Stuart Crisp, UK manager at Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS). The publication of the Plan for Water by the Department for E ...

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    Unlocking deliverability

    Simon Coop, senior director, Lichfields, reports on how viability is the key ensuring that new housing ca ...

    Simon Coop, senior director, Lichfields, reports on how viability is the key ensuring that new housing can be delivered.Recently published data has revealed that the UK housebuilding activity has fall ...

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    Vector reveals sustainable prototype at Energy House 2.0

    Cleantech company Vector Homes has unveiled its prototype flatpack home built using sustainable and advan ...

    Cleantech company Vector Homes has unveiled its prototype flatpack home built using sustainable and advanced materials after undergoing testing at a g research facility in Manchester. Vector is workin ...

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    Spitfire celebrates 1,000th home milestone

    Spitfire Homes has handed over the keys to its 1,000th home, a landmark for the Midlands-based builder. S ...

    Spitfire Homes has handed over the keys to its 1,000th home, a landmark for the Midlands-based builder. Spitfire was first established more than a decade ago and this milestone signifies the businesse ...

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    Saxon finds at Orbit site

    Haddenham residents were recently given the chance to view historical artefacts after excavations at an O ...

    Haddenham residents were recently given the chance to view historical artefacts after excavations at an Orbit Homes site in Cambridgeshire unearthed archaeological finds dating from the Bronze Age, th ...

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    Gove’s watery fate

    You have to feel sorry for Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Ac ...

    You have to feel sorry for Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Actually, you don’t – but it’s difficult, for once, not to have sympathy for the Government in it ...

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    Q2 value sales up +7.6% on Q1, with volume up +11.3% and prices down -3.3%

    The latest figures from the Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI), published in August, show that quart ...

    The latest figures from the Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI), published in August, show that quarter-on-quarter sales climbed +7.6% in Q2 2023 compared to January to March 2023. Growth came fro ...

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    Resi starts show faint revival

    Glenigan’s September 2023 edition of its Construction Review suggests that the resi sector is showing wea ...

    Glenigan’s September 2023 edition of its Construction Review suggests that the resi sector is showing weak signs of recovery: against a backdrop of bad news for the rest of the construction industry. ...

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    No grumbles at Harron from the Old Goats

    Harron Homes employees and family at the Old Goats Grumble 2023: Kelly Booth, John Booth, Adam Pickering, ...

    Harron Homes employees and family at the Old Goats Grumble 2023: Kelly Booth, John Booth, Adam Pickering, Sarah Weir, Lee Kilby, Nicola Ward, Diane Weir. For the third consecutive year, Harron Homes h ...

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