All Housing articles – Page 171
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NewsHugill to chair HCA finance group
Former chairman of Lend Lease Nigel Hugill is to chair the new Housing Finance Group advising the Homes & Community Agency on private investment.
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NewsGo-ahead for massive Thames Gateway housing project
The first phase of Barking Riverside – the largest single housing development in the Thames Gateway – has won planning permission.
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NewsHCA reveals details of new housing cash
The Homes & Communities Agency has begun detailing how housebuilders can get a share of the £600 million lifeline thrown in last month’s Budget
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TechnicalUncorking the secrets of Dennis Sharp’s Bayford house
Cork insulation has been used in the Dennis Sharp Architects’ extension and refurbishment of this former Hertfordshire council house
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ReviewChilean architect finds a gap in the market
Alejandro Aravena of Elemental presented some inspiring ideas about social housing at a recent London School of Economics lecture
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Budget gives £600m boost to slump-hit housing sector
Homes & Communities Agency to bail out struggling schemes after chancellor’s windfall
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TechnicalNick Baker Architects’ Fallow Court housing
Nick Baker Architects’ part-buried Fallow Court in north London scheme could point the way to a new form of sustainable urban housing
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Building StudyHow it all stacks up for O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Timberyard
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Timberyard development hits upon a remarkable urban housing typology that goes some way to redress Dublin’s use of an ill-considered planning formula
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FeaturesA round-up of the latest housing projects
Cox Bulleid’s Shoreditch Prototype HouseWhen Tessa Cox and Oliver Bulleid bought a plot of land in Shoreditch, east London, the road outside hadn’t even been built. But, like many young architectural couples, they were willing to take a gamble on the site, which they acquired at auction without planning permission ...
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FeaturesThe latest products for housing projects
Marley EternitEcoLogic roof tilesMarley EternitWhen stimulated by sunshine these roof tiles absorb small amounts of nitrogen dioxide, found in traffic pollution and linked to asthma and respiratory diseases. Titanium dioxide within the tile converts nitrogen dioxide to nitric acid ions, in turn neutralised by the lime and calcium carbonate in ...
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OpinionWould a Tory government be good for housing?
Yes, if it abolished the current planning system, says the RIBA’s Jan Maciag; no says Peter Barber, the Tories’ green paper is too ideologically cautious
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FeaturesThe Ryde’s experiment in caring and sharing
Hatfield’s The Ryde was a groundbreaking cooperative where residents created the housing community that they wanted, but 40 years on is it the community or the privacy of the houses people want?
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FeaturesWhat type of housing do we need to provide for Britain’s rapidly growing elderly population?
This month our experts consider building housing for the elderly
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FeaturesBeyond BedZed: Pooran Desai on the importance of sustainable housing
Through his BioRegional Quintain venture, Pooran Desai is concerned with the sustainability not only of buildings but, more importantly, the communities who live and work in them
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Building StudySergison Bates approach to the cul-de-sac culture in Canning Town
Sergison Bates’ regeneration of Canning Town’s Crediton Road certainly provides solid housing that complements its surroundings, but the home zone concept of open, easily accessible areas has got lost along the way due to fears of misuse
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NewsHousing Fed backs Prasad’s retrofit call
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has joined forces with the National Housing Federation to call for a £3 billion pilot to retrofit social housing stock across the UK.
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RIBA president says Tory housing proposals ‘deeply flawed’
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has branded Tory proposals for the creation of local housing trusts – a key plank of the Conservative Party’s new housing strategy – as “deeply flawed”.
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NewsPrasad and NHF lobby government for £3bn housing retrofit pilot
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has joined forces with the National Housing Federation to call for a £3 billion pilot to retrofit social housing stock across the UK.
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Building StudyGeurst & Schulze's act of mediation at Le Medi
Geurst & Schulze’s Le Medi housing estate in Rotterdam fits comfortably with a career spent celebrating diverse architectural sources