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Gardon plot availability 22 Jun 2010 | 10:45 pm
The demise of garden plots may not be upon us On 9th June amid much fanfare the government announced it was ending ‘garden grabbing’. The media eagerly interpreted this as meaning there would be no ...
How to find and buy a building plot 15 Jun 2010 | 04:14 am
A new edition of the best-selling book on finding plots has been published by Ovolo Books. Priced at £15.95 the new edition is bang up to date and contains great advice on finding consented land or la...
OFT Investigation into Bid Rigging 18 Apr 2008 | 03:19 am
People may be shocked that 112 firms have been accused of bid rigging, but my guess is that the practice is so widespread, that it’s almost universal. It’s certainly just as common down at the smaller...
Planning Alerts.com 10 Mar 2008 | 05:37 am
Want to know what’s cooking, planning-wise, in your street? Visit Planning Alerts.com, key in your email address and the postcode you are interested in and you will receive email notification of any n...
GD Fever 21 Feb 2008 | 08:02 pm
What are these people watching? It’s a Wednesday night in Cambridge, there is European football on ITV and Sky, but no, they are not watching the footie. The Brit Awards are also on featuring Sharon O...
FIRST PASSIVHAUS IN UK? 21 Feb 2008 | 12:13 am
I have been lead to believe, and I think Mr Brinkley will confirm, that there are no house in the UK built to the German Passivhaus standard. I think Mr Brinkley was considering building one but I don...
Climbing on a Sustainable Bandwagon 20 Feb 2008 | 11:08 pm
I have just had the rare privilege of attending an RIBA accredited seminar on “Innovation in Natural Ventilation”. For a sustainable building guy like me that is hot stuff. In these days of passive ho...
Are these no heat homes? 7 Feb 2008 | 09:18 pm
“We are building homes with no heating systems already.” That was the bold claim made to me by Andy Porter of SIPS@CLAYS at the Harrogate Homebuilding & Renovating show back in November. “Well, if yo...
HIPS update 3 Jan 2008 | 10:08 pm
Whilst the housing market may be taking a bath, many people (OK… Kirstie Allsports) are tempted to blame the introduction of HIPS which are now required on all new homes in England & Wales. But the pr...
Sign of the Times 16 Dec 2007 | 12:48 am
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