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Bristol contest for 100% affordable housing reveals five-strong shortlist
The Bristol Housing Festival has named the five local architects competing to redevelop a site on Midland Road in the city’s Old Market Quarter
Tag: Housing
Council orders demolition of new housing blocks that violated planning
Greenwich Council has ordered the complete demolition of what one councillor describes as a ‘mutant development’ in the south London borough
Hyde Housing Association framework 2024-28
Hyde Housing Association has announced a new £2 billion design services framework [Deadline: 20 October 2023]
Wessex House, Eastleigh
Eastleigh Borough Council (EBC) is seeking a design team to refurbish its Wessex House office block [Deadline: 30 October 2023]
Take the party politics out of planning and housing policies
We need to think more strategically and de-politicise planning itself to cure the UK of its seeming inability to plan effectively for long-term growth
Govt’s ‘haphazard’ approach fails both housing and environment, says Lords report
House-building targets should be put on an equal footing to environmental goals, a House of Lords committee has urged in the week the prime minister diluted green targets
Sheppard Robson unveils 2,830-home masterplan for former IKEA site
Sheppard Robson is planning a 2,830-home residential-led scheme for Tottenham’s former IKEA store
When it comes to town centres, failing to plan is planning to fail
By expanding Permitted Development Rights in high streets and town centres, the government would usher in a new era of dingy, bargain basement homes, says Holly Lewis
Government defeated over bid to scrap water-pollution rules for housing
Government plans to tear up water quality rules - which it says will lead to 100,000 new homes - have been scuppered by Labour
Schindler’s Ark, Brněnec
An open international student contest is seeking concepts for a new memorial to Holocaust survivors at Oskar Schindler’s former factory in Brněnec, Czechia [Deadline: 14 July 2024]