Government’s ‘Green’ Watchdog
The Sustainable Development Commission is due to lose its funding next year. Currently it acts as an advisory watchdog on Green issues for the Coalition Government. Continue Reading
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Posted on January 16, 2011 by Professor Benfield
The Sustainable Development Commission is due to lose its funding next year. Currently it acts as an advisory watchdog on Green issues for the Coalition Government. Continue Reading
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Posted on January 11, 2011 by Professor Benfield
The Home Builders Federation’s latest report ‘Building a Recovery – Reconstructing our Regions’, highlights the ways in which tackling the housing crisis and delivering the homes needed by the UK can deliver real economic benefits Continue Reading
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Posted on January 11, 2011 by Professor Benfield
Dramatic Fall in Planning Permissions
Published last Friday, Glenigan’s report to the Home Builders Federation shows planning permissions for new homes dropping at an alarming rate. They are now at one of the lowest levels in the last five years, and the second lowest of the past 19 quarters. Continue Reading
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Posted on January 7, 2011 by Professor Benfield
So, BBC soap’s Eastender’s latest story about baby snatching draws over 6,000 protests in 24 hours. Meanwhile, an unemployed single teenage mum complains on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that she can’t leave her single bedroom flat, or afford to put her child in care so that she can train as a carer. Continue Reading
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Posted on November 10, 2010 by admin
New UK building regulations came into force in October 2010, replacing the previous 2006 version, which apply to non-residential and residential buildings, including those for which planning permission has been granted, but work not yet started. Continue Reading
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Posted on September 15, 2010 by admin
These days, innovations in timber frame are a bit thin on the ground. I-beam walls, SIP panels, Filled cell walls, Twin walls, Icynene and Warmcell insulaion, Metal Web or I-beam joists and roofs, Glulam, Douglas Fir and Green Oak post and beam structures and so on are all fairly well understood. But now BATT has added “Tradical® Hemcrete®” to its range of timber frame options Continue Reading
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Posted on September 15, 2010 by admin
Your favourite On-line Superstore - the Home and Garden Centre (www.hgc.uk.com) has just launched a special landing page for its popular new Log Pod timber tent camping product. Continue Reading
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