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DTZ research: UK sheds market take up dips but incentives harden
Hot off the press DTZ's industrial times report for Q3 shows a market reaching new low levels of take up overall but with supply also in decline incentives are hardening. The researchers behind the report predict no further drop in...
Housing Plan Stuck, National Recovery In Hands of Real Estate Market : The Real Estate Bloggers
As the Treasury Department training company, Goldman Sachs, records incredible profits, the housing market is fighting a battle to save the economy. The 275 billion that the Federal Government allocated to infuse into the housing market is failing to get into the hand of the borrowers. It is
Nuclear plans under threat - from Cellophane?
Over at Angus Walker's blog at Bircham Dyson Bell there is an interesting piece on the news that a Cellophane manufacturing firm in Somerset [called Innovia] has put a judicial review shaped spanner in the works for EDF's plans to...
Super council - robbed of planning powers
Plans by an evil mastermind to combine services at Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea councils to create London's first
Shapps will need all the help he can get with his plans for social housing reform
Grant Shapps on Radio 4's Today programme this morning trailed his proposals for the
Parker-Boris and the end to hobbit homes (we hope)
I went along to NLA's 'London's Future Landscape' event last week, a half day event with speakers and a question and answer session in the morning followed by a routemaster tour to Canary Wharf and the Olympic site in the...
Milk and water localism served with meat and potatoes
Boris Johnson has chosen mid-August to slip out a couple of interesting housing policy documents. A Framework for Devolved Delivery is the Mayor of London's 17-page milk-and-water attempt at localism, which can be safely ignored. But the 108-page London...
Boris's Olympian summerhouse gaffe
This posting is so tangentially linked to the London 2012 Olympics that I hesitate to press the publish button. Nevertheless, as Boris has been as entertainingly off the wall as ever and it does vaguely have something to with...
Boris' design guide comes at a crucial time
The Mayor of London is to unveil his long-awaited design guide on Wednesday. This draft guide, which will make recommendations about internal space standards, environmental standards along with other health and safety standards, and has the potential to have a...
You cannot be serious!
With Wimbledon just around the corner a £4.6m legal dispute between the All England Lawn Tennis Club and top international design practice Building Design Partnership over alleged design flaws on the media centre is hotting up quite nicely. In...
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