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Homes comfort
Whenever housebuilders meet nowadays, they can be seen staring intently at one another and muttering, "this is going to be an interesting year". Never ones to talk down business, what they are really saying is: life is pretty damn difficult. The industry is facing more demands than ever before, with ...
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Lost clauses
An architect can't just put the RIBA adjudication provisions into a contract with a homeowner and hope for the best. If he doesn't draw attention to them, they may be worthless
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Middle classes welcome
In the first of a new series, Brian Moone accuses columnist John Smith of inverted snobbery
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Why don't we build more houses?
Despite record growth in house prices, the number of new homes we build continues to decline. Housing output per head of population in the UK is lower than in any other major western economy. This trend is unlikely to reverse in the next few years. It is the ...
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Let's be Bold
Britain is full of boring-looking, traditionally built houses, so what's so bad about an equally boring-looking house that has been built in a factory?
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An appealing offer
This was an appeal and cross appeal from the first instance judge's order in respect of costs. The case itself related to physical and sexual abuse at the defendant's children's home, but the point in this appeal relates to costs and Part 36 offers. Royal & Sun Alliance was the ...
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Alphabet soup
If you want to be sure your scheme doesn't get into trouble, make sure the wording of any planning agreement is clear
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It's still all to play for
I want to respond to Steve Elkin's letter (14 March, page 34), which criticised the Construction Industry Training Board for "pulling the funding" of Regional Construction Careers Groups.
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We鈥檙e all key workers now
The good news is that the government's communities plan announced an overall increase in investment in affordable housing for 2003/4 and beyond, with at least 拢1bn set aside for key worker housing over three years.
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Waiting for Woodrow
I refer to your financial news article in which Taylor Woodrow's chief executive, Iain Napier, indicates that the government should be listening to housebuilders in order to meet housebuilding targets (7 March, page 21).
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The road to recovery
The appellant, Mrs Lampert, had compromised proceedings brought against her and her husband in the Chancery Division for possession of a property over which the respondents had a charge. The Tomlin Order provided for a split of the proceeds of sale 50/50 between the respondents and the appellant in the ...
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A paradise for parasites
To shut out small firms, the Treasury made the PFI process so adversarial that it got captured by lawyers, who are now eating us out of schools and hospitals
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We need vocal locals
Council planners generally put the interests of the community first, but if things don't work out that way, there's not a lot the community can do about it
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Knowing the form
As a project manager associated with a 拢50m building project administered under option F of the ECC, I was fascinated (and at times a little horrified) by Rachel Barnes' recent article on the Society of Construction Law's Delay and Disruption Protocol (28 February, page 49).
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You're forgetting someone
Your editorial on the Congestion Charge (7 March, page 3) came as something of a surprise to the manufacturers and distributors in the construction industry.
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Health and efficiency
I refer to your article "Jarvis under pressure to halve rail profits" (28 February, page 10). It was disappointing to read such a misinformed piece in what is otherwise an excellent and respected trade publication.
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Never trust a copper
Mr and Mrs Venables found that the water pipes in their new home were ruined, so they sued their plumber. What followed illustrated an important legal point
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Chop the campaign
Having read and enjoyed your magazine for more than five years, and particularly appreciated the role it has played in promoting change and sustainability in the construction industry, I am astounded that you should embark on some thing as "builder's bum" as a Chop the Charge campaign.
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Brief encounter: When can you kill people?
Are the US and Britain be within their legal rights to invade Iraq? The second in our series of chatrooms tackles their motives and the nature of the UN debate