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UK homes not equipped to tackle climate change, warns CCC

21st February 201921st February 2019 Chris Ogden

The environmental standards of homes must be improved to help the UK reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reach its climate

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National Trust joins forces with housing association to revive nature trail

20th February 201920th February 2019 Thomas Barrett

The National Trust and housing association, Your Housing Group, have joined forces to revive a nature trail on the outskirts

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UK’s largest modular council housing scheme proposed for Leeds

19th February 2019 Thomas Barrett

The UK’s largest fully modular council housing and apartment scheme in the UK could be built in Leeds, following a planning

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Energy generating ‘smart bricks’ on display in London gallery

19th February 201919th February 2019 Thomas Barrett

Innovative ‘smart brick’ technology capable of recycling wastewater and generating electricity from sunlight is on display at a renowned London

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Transport should be better integrated within housing developments, says report

18th February 201918th February 2019 Thomas Barrett

Economic and social benefits are being lost in new housing developments due to a lack of sustainable transport funding, according

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Government commits further £9m for new garden towns

13th February 201913th February 2019 Chris Ogden

The government has committed an extra £9m of funding to speed up the building of new garden towns and villages

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Thousands of ‘illegal’ landlords breaking the law on energy certificates

13th February 201914th February 2019 Thomas Barrett

A million rental properties across England and Wales have no Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), with tens of thousands of landlords breaking

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Why the government has a ‘lazy and populist’ approach towards unauthorised traveller sites

8th February 20198th February 2019 Helen Jones

Helen Jones, chief executive of Gypsy and Traveller charity Leeds Gate, responds to the Home Secretary’s plans to give police ‘tough

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Planning departments understaffed and underskilled, warns report

8th February 20197th February 2019 Thomas Barrett

A report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has painted a bleak picture of understaffed and underskilled local authority planning

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Sustainable housing should have more ‘built-in’ environmental features, report finds

5th February 20195th February 2019 Chris Ogden

Sustainable housing developments should have more environmentally-friendly features ‘built-in’ rather than them relying on good resident behaviour, a new report

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Air quality appeal over 4000-home development thrown out

1st February 2019 Thomas Barrett

The Communities Secretary did not have a duty to call in a planning application for a major housing development that

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Homes to be winched onto London’s rooftops to tackle housing shortage

30th January 201931st January 2019 Thomas Barrett

Homes will be winched onto rooftops to help tackle London’s housing shortage, after Homes England agreed a £9m funding deal

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Why hasn’t modular housing taken off yet?

28th January 201928th January 2019 Lydia Smith

Modular has long been hailed as a solution to a housing crisis that has left workers in England and Wales

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Step inside Britain’s greenest Victorian house

17th January 201917th January 2019 Jamie Hailstone

A pair of Victorian townhouses in Manchester have become the first homes in Europe to achieve the toughest standards set

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Research brings traditional sustainable building material into 21st century

11th December 2018 Thomas Barrett

An international research project led by the University of Plymouth has succeeded in bringing the ancient and sustainable building material

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UK universities celebrate housing and energy innovations

7th December 2018 Thomas Barrett

Building houses with plastic bottles, developing innovative ways to save on household energy bills and leading research into the digitisation of

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Government calls for greener developments

3rd December 20183rd December 2018 Jamie Hailstone

Developers will have to demonstrate how they are improving biodiversity when building new housing or commercial developments, under new government

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How UAVs can help mitigate flood damage to properties

21st November 20186th December 2018 Monica Rivas Casaldo

Dr Monica Rivas Casaldo, senior lecturer in Integrated Environmental Monitoring at Cranfield University, discusses how Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can

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