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\"Plymouth<\/a>\n

New fire safety regulations challenged<\/a><\/h4>\n
A prominent construction industry figure has raised concerns over proposed fire safety legislation, warning that it may not adequately protect residents in high-rise apartment buildings ...
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\"London<\/a>\n

London’s housing shortage drags down national economic growth<\/a><\/h4>\n
London is experiencing a residential property crisis that extends far beyond its boundaries, undermining productivity nationwide and forcing workers to abandon one of the world's ...
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\"builders<\/a>\n

Stealth tax increase could cost of house building<\/a><\/h4>\n
A controversial treasury proposal to dramatically increase landfill taxes on construction waste threatens to derail the government's ambitious housebuilding targets and add tens of thousands ...
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\"new<\/a>\n

Government to get tough on developers who don’t build \u00a0houses fast enough<\/a><\/h4>\n
The government is introducing tough new rules to stop property developers from sitting on empty land for years without building homes. Under the new system, ...
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\"brick<\/a>\n

Home owner frustrations over NHBC process<\/a><\/h4>\n
The National House Building Council (NHBC) is the leading provider of ten year warranties (or insurance) for new build homes in the UK. The warranty ...
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\"modern<\/a>\n

Millions of homes granted planning permission never built<\/a><\/h4>\n
The UK's largest house builder, Barratt Developments, completed just 14,000 homes in the year to June compared to 17,000 in the previous twelve months. The ...
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\"You<\/a>\n

The great indoors – children need to get back to nature to break “grass ceiling”<\/a><\/h4>\n
A recent survey has found that children are more likely to watch television or play video games than than they are to play outdoors.\u00a0The \"Breaking ...
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\"You<\/a>\n

Home purchasers willing to move miles to get on the property ladder<\/a><\/h4>\n
Even in the current economic climate,\u00a0 the desire to own your own home is so strong that people are willing to make sacrifices to fulfil ...
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\"New<\/a>\n

New affordable homes built but left empty<\/a><\/h4>\n
Families were expecting to move into newly built social housing homes in St Ann's Chapel, near Kingsbridge in Devon, around Christmas 2023, but have been ...
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\"new<\/a>\n

House builders under investigation for secretly sharing prices<\/a><\/h4>\n
Several large house building firms are being investigated by the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) after a report revealed evidence that suggested that \"information sharing\" ...
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\"West<\/a>\n

Somerset seaside town set to double<\/a><\/h4>\n
Housing developers have applied to build so many new houses at a coastal town in Somerset, that the town could nearly double in size. The ...
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\"house<\/a>\n

88 new homes demolished due to issues with foundations<\/a><\/h4>\n
Barratt Developments PLC owns three consumer brands: Barratt Homes, David Wilson Homes and Barratt London, making it one of the nation\u2019s largest house builders. The ...
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\"\"<\/a>\n

Redrow renews call for stamp duty changes<\/a><\/h4>\n
House builder, Redrow, estimates that completions will be reduced by as much as 20% in the next financial year, causing the company to renew its ...
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\"cracks<\/a>\n

New properties so awful they should be demolished<\/a><\/h4>\n
The residents of 53 Agar Grove in Camden, London are enduring a \"daily living nightmare\", as surveyors have deemed their newly built block of flats ...
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\"Levelling<\/a>\n

Gove threatens to ban housing developers<\/a><\/h4>\n
The 2017 Grenfell fire was the deadliest UK fire in 30 years, killing 72 people. The subsequent inquiry\u00a0 prompted 49 developers to pledge publicly that ...
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\"build<\/a>\n

Where you can buy a home for peanuts<\/a><\/h4>\n
Sales of new residential properties in China have fallen for eleven consecutive months. As in the UK, one of the obstacles to buying a home ...
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\"building<\/a>\n

Costs skyrocket due to shortage of building materials<\/a><\/h4>\n
Building materials supplier, Travis Perkins, has warned of price increases to the cost of building materials as a result of supply chain problems with several ...
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\"self<\/a>\n

Self Build Wales new way to self build your own home<\/a><\/h4>\n
The Welsh Government has introduced a new scheme to encourage self-builders by helping to \"remove the barriers and uncertainty that prevent people in Wales from ...
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Persimmon Homes has no minimum house building standard<\/a><\/h4>\n
An independent review into the effectiveness of Persimmon Homes that was led by its chairman, Roger Devlin, has been published. The review's purpose was to ...
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Cladding concerns still rife two years after Grenfell disaster<\/a><\/h4>\n
Two years after the 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy, in which 72 people tragically died, there are still many buildings with dangerous aluminium composite material (ACM) ...
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Building up under permitted development rights has hidden impacts<\/a><\/h4>\n
Five properties in London will house 38 new rooftop homes later this year. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has confirmed the modular ...
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Raynsford Review: Planning system creating ‘slums of the future’<\/a><\/h4>\n
In its landmark assessment of the English planning system, the newly-published Raynsford Review\u00c2\u00a0suggests that, while the planning system has the potential to make people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives ...
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Nimby councils vs big home builders; isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it time for some common sense?<\/a><\/h4>\n
The government has threatened local councils\u00c2\u00a0 with the loss of planning powers, unless they meet house building targets. Yet local councils are approving planning applications ...
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Affordable housing and where it should be built<\/a><\/h4>\n
The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has introduced a plan to rewrite a controversial housing strategy that identified potential sites for 225,000 new homes ...
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Build-to-rent housing scheme proposed for Belfast<\/a><\/h4>\n
In 1991, the population of Belfast city centre was half what it was in 1926 but, since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement of ...
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