All Building Design articles in June 2024 – Page 2
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Barking and Dagenham council leader Darren Rodwell in the clear following allegations about behaviour
Rodwell dropped out of standing for parliament in Labour safe seat last month after complaint about his conduct
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Fosters unveils first images of redesigned Fulham Gas Works scheme
Revised plans to include two towers up to 38 storeys after second staircase rejig resulted in loss of third tower
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Labour removes ‘levelling up’ from department and ministerial titles
DLUHC to be return to former name MHCLG as Angela Rayner describes phrase as a “gimmick”
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In pictures: Stanton Williams' new student facilities at Cambridge college
Scheme includes mix of new-build and refurbishment work
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Apt’s plans to demolish care home and replace with 90-room resi scheme get approval
Scheme will deliver new co-living building
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Opinion
What’s stopping us from losing our skills?
Has the centrality of two-dimensional representation in the built envirionment professions had its day, asks Anna Beckett
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Labour scraps onshore wind ban and restores mandatory housing targets
New chancellor Rachel Reeves sets out plans to get Britain building new infrastructure and housing
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Corstorphine & Wright boosts south coast presence with local practice acquisition
Hampshire firm Brightspace the latest to be snapped up in expansion drive
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Matthew Pennycook appointed housing minister
Greenwich and Woolwich MP with a track record of campaigning on low pay, renter rights and placemaking takes key DLUHC brief
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Features
Does Roger De Haan’s Folkestone housing scheme deserve so much criticism?
Former Saga owner’s luxury Shoreline Crescent scheme has been completed following a string of headlines about its lack of affordable housing. Tom Lowe tours the building and is impressed by what he finds
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Medieval meets modern sustainability at ARC Painswick
Parti’s latest project transforms a rundown B&B into a sunlit retreat in the English countryside
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Angela Rayner confirmed as housing secretary
Appointment follows landslide victory for Keir Starmer’s Labour party
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Labour landslide a ‘monumental’ event for the UK – industry leaders react to election victory
Sector reacts to Keir Starmer’s 400-plus seat victory
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New towns, 1.5million homes and renewing the UK’s infrastructure…. what the new government has promised for the built environment
Keir Starmer’s party has won a large majority as many expected. As we gear up for the first Labour government for 14 years, here is a reminder of what they have pledged for the built environment
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Opinion
What makes a successful new town?
Samuel Hughes explores the key elements of successful new towns through history and how these lessons might inform the new government’s housing strategy
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Bell Phillips founding director to step down
Hari Phillips to leave towards the end of this year to “explore different opportunities”
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Create Streets calls on next government to build homes on industrial parks
Think tank sets out 16 key proposals for densifying towns and cities including new tram lines and converting dual carriage ways into tree-lined streets
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Stanton Williams submits plans for student resi scheme at Magdalen College, Oxford
Proposals would replace 1960s building with six new blocks on historic riverside site
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Call out for London firms to provide new-look apprenticeship route
Plan BEE needs companies to provide six-week placements
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Features
The making of Egham: how AHMM helped to pull a town centre up by its bootstraps
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Runnymede council have delivered a mixed-use scheme that aims to reverse the slow decline of this busy Surrey town. Thomas Lane reports