All UK articles – Page 159
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NewsNew building safety regulator to hire 700 staff
Body set up following 2018 Hackitt report into Grenfell fire
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NewsRIBA launches consultation on mandatory safety, ethical and green competences
Architects have until June to give feedback
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NewsRetrofit could cut CO2 emissions from old buildings by 80%, says Historic England
More than a fifth of buildings in England are over a century old
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NewsKingspan boss denies private dinner with MPs was bid to ‘access political power’ to stop combustible insulation ban
Senior staff attended Westminster dinner months after fire, Grenfell Inquiry hears
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NewsConsented RSHP hotel being redesigned as student flats because of covid
Pandemic has hit viability of tourism businesses, admits developer
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NewsArchitecture Initiative wins planning for cinema at old Beatles record plant
Gramophone building is ‘last piece in puzzle’ of regeneration project
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NewsGovernment to take control of Liverpool planning and regeneration departments amid fraud probe
Damning reports finds ‘deeply concerning picture of mismanagement’
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FeaturesOur suburbs are a messy, quirky patchwork. This makes radical thinking all the more important
Turn Nimbys into Yimbys by giving them a stake in the development process, argues Ben Derbyshire
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NewsKingspan director denies misleading Grenfell Inquiry by ‘forgetting’ to mention rigged fire test
Adrian Pargeter admits ‘powers of recollection… deserted me’ when giving evidence last December
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FeaturesIs this what you mean by transparency on viability, RBKC?
There is a desperate shortage of affordable housing in Kensington and the council is planning to build some beside Trellick Tower. But Emma Dent Coad has some unanswered questions
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NewsHaworth Tompkins flats ‘would block view of Trellick Tower’, say opponents
Goldfinger estate would be damaged for sake of 20 social rented homes, claims local councillor and historian
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NewsGovernment’s £562m housing retrofit programme ‘simply not enough’, RIBA warns
Policy to improve 50,000 homes branded ’not enough’ to tackle problem
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NewsMPs vote down proposal to protect residents from fire safety bills
House of Commons rejected ‘unworkable’ Lords amendment to the Fire Safety Bill
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NewsBBA procedures not designed to counter ‘deliberate misrepresentation’, Grenfell Inquiry hears
‘Maybe we were naive,’ admits chief scientific officer as inquiry hears Arconic ignored 11 requests for information
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NewsDeveloper pulls £1bn Simpson Haugh hotel rather than face inquiry
Controversial hotel and resi scheme would have replaced Seifert’s Kensington Forum hotel in west London
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NewsScrapping Green Homes Grant had ‘devastating consequences’, MPs say
Environmental audit committee and RIBA call on government to launch national retrofit strategy
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NewsRoad project seen as central to Ox-Cam arc is axed
£3.5bn Expressway project seen as vital to building of one million homes in the Oxford-Cambridge arc
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NewsDevelopers can’t pay for affordable housing, says British Land chief
Canada Water boss Roger Madelin said general taxation should fund submarket housing
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NewsProfit halves as Aecom takes axe to staff numbers
Multidisciplinary blames profit slump on cost of streamlining business
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NewsLegal challenge mounted to stop end of ’virtual planning’
Local government bodies seek judgment designed to prevent planning system ’grinding to a halt’ in May