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Wed, 15 August 07
24dash.com

SEVEN SHORTLISTED FOR ENGLAND'S 'FIRST ECO-VILLAGE'

Competition is strong to deliver English Partnerships’ first eco-village achieving Level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes, as the national regeneration agency, reveals the seven developers shortlisted to build a 150 home site in Bristol...

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Wed, 15 August 07
Guardian Unlimited

HOMES NEED TO BE BUILT ON GREEN BELT, REPORT CLAIMS

Hundreds of thousands of new homes will need to be built on green belt land in order to meet Gordon's Brown housing targets, a thinktank said today. The prime minister has pledged £10bn to tackle housing shortages...

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Wed, 15 August 07
BBC News

GREEN LIGHT FOR CITY REGENERATION

A £300m redevelopment for part of a Devon city has been given the go-ahead by planners. The plans for Millbay are the biggest since Plymouth city centre had to be rebuilt after it was devastated...

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Mon, 13 August 07
Hull Daily Mail

QUICK PROFITS ON DEMOLITION ROW

Property investors are cashing in on a Government- funded multi-million pound housing regeneration scheme in Hull. Plans to tackle run-down areas of privately-owned housing...

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Mon, 6 August 07
Manchester.com

SACRED GEOMETRY APPLIED TO EAST MANCHESTER DEVELOPMENT

 
Proposals to build a new housing development in east Manchester have been given the green light. Manchester City Council has approved plans for Gorton Monastery Village, a 4.7 acre site next to the famous monastery...

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Mon, 6 August 07
The Guardian

AVERAGE ENGLISH HOUSE PRICE WILL TOP £300,000 IN FIVE YEARS, SAYS STUDY

More parents will have to pay children's mortgages. 40% rise to bring more grief for first-time buyers. The average house price in England will rise by 40% in five years to break the £300,000 barrier, according to research published today by the National Housing Federation...

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Thu, 2 August 07
Cambridge Evening News

RECORD GRANT TO SAVE FENS' NATURAL ASSETS

ANCIENT Cambridgeshire fenland has been saved thanks to a record-breaking grant of almost £9 million. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant, the largest such grant, will be used to restore a huge site to its former glory. The Wildlife Trust will...

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Tue, 31 July 07
The Argus (Brighton)

EXPERTS WARN SUSSEX CANNOT COPE WITH NEW HOMES

More than £2.5 billion of infrastructure is to cope with the 17,000 new homes planned for the Sussex coast, new research has revealed.

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Mon, 30 July 07
This is Cornwall

DEVON'S FIRST GREEN TOWN

A Devon community of thousands of new homes will be a prototype for the "eco towns" proposed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Mr Brown has ordered the biggest housebuilding programme since the 1940s - and Government officials believe Cranbrook...

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Sun, 29 July 07
Guardian Unlimited

MOVE TO CREATE AFFORDABLE HOMES IS 'BLOCKED BY HOUSEBUILDERS'

Britain's leading developers have been accused of blocking government plans to force them to build more affordable housing. Channel 4's Dispatches will tomorrow say that housebuilders and lobbyists working for them are boasting of having used 'overt political pressure'...

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