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NewsGove signals end of 300,000-homes-a-year commitment
Housing secretary says aiming for one target risks “making an enemy of the common good”
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News
Queen’s Speech 2022: architects question feasibility of ‘street votes’ policy
Councils will need to have sufficient funding to make the government’s local design code plan work, architects warn
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Opinion
What can we expect from the Queen’s Speech?
Ben Derbyshire is optimistic that Gove will propose a range of innovative proposals
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News
Gove confirms plans for local design codes
Housing secretary takes aim at ”modernist architects who sneer at what the rest of us actually like”
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News
Clarity on regs ‘could reverse decline in London tower schemes’
Expert says new regime offers more certainty as Building Safety Bill receives royal assent
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News
Ben Derbyshire blasts lack of architects on New Homes Quality Board
Former RIBA president slams “inexplicable” absence of design expertise on body to police house-building industry
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Spring Statement: RIBA applauds energy-efficiency tax breaks
But institue warns ministers need a nationwide retrofit strategy to meet decarbonisation goals
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Features
Let’s open our institute to architects fleeing from eastern Europe
We have an opportunity to stand with our Ukrainian counterparts and to offer collective support, writes Ben Derbyshire
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News
Profession rallies to support Ukrainian architects
Practice calls for work-visa waiver as past RIBA president flags institute’s 1930s efforts
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News
Allford urges consistency after 11th housing minister announced
Reshuffle leaves us in ‘extraordinary situation’, says RIBA president
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Features
This is not how to level up the country
Gove’s 12-point plan is hardly the Roosevelt New Deal we were promised, writes Ben Derbyshire
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News
Ministers ‘distracted from net zero goals by lockdown parties row’
Backbench MP set to propose bill on reducing embodied carbon in construction projects
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News
Industry should not have been trusted to build high-rise blocks, government tells Grenfell inquiry
Housing department lawyer said public trust in construction firms had been “misplaced and abused”
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Concealment of cladding dangers ‘one of the major scandals of our time’, Grenfell Inquiry hears
Inquiry told that coalition government allowed itself to become the “junior partner” to the construction industry in a drive to cut red tape
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Multimedia
Interview: Maria Smith on the rising tide of greenwash
Post-COP26: ‘I’m just as angry, just as hopeful, just as pessimistic’
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Architects accuse chancellor of being ‘out of sync’ with climate crisis
Profession unconvinced by Sunak’s ‘higher wages, higher skills and rising productivity’ pledge
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News
Gove replaces Jenrick as housing secretary in reshuffle
Jenrick said it had been a ‘huge privilege’ to serve in the role
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News
Government bows to pressure and extends deadline for post-Brexit certification rules
Industry raised concerns about capacity to test products before CE replacement introduced – and warned of 'devastating' consequences
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News
Building Safety Bill will give residents more time to pursue shoddy firms
Long-awaited legislation published today will also give Arb power to strike off architects who fail competence tests
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Planning bill to be centrepiece of today’s Queen’s Speech
Planning deregulatation said to be key Conservative electoral strategy
