All Kickstart articles
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NewsBD's Come Clean on Kickstart wins Freedom of Information victory
Housebuilders Kier and Miller Homes named and shamed after information commisioner forces data release
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NewsThe full list of Kickstart scores
View the Building for Life scores of all Kickstart round 1 and 2 projects
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NewsHCA admits BD's Kickstart housing campaign has raised standards
Final tranche of 44 schemes bailed out by the government backs quality developers and knocks out Persimmon.
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NewsDoubts grow over future of Kickstart
Only one fifth of the half-a-billion pound budget earmarked for the second round of Kickstart has been committed amid growing doubts over the future of the controversial stimulus programme.
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NewsUse architects to drive up housing standards, Cabe argues
Every publicly funded housing project should involve a competition or interview to select an architect, Cabe’s chief executive has argued in a new report on how to drive up design quality.
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NewsHousebuilding hit as government cuts £50m from Kickstart
The Homes & Communities Agency’s Kickstart programme will bear the brunt of the £230 million of cuts the government has imposed on the agency.
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NewsScotland’s Kickstart ‘will waste public cash’
Scotland’s answer to Kickstart, the £130 million National Housing Trust initiative, is set to pay for more poor quality homes on the taxpayer, one of the country’s leading architects has predicted
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OpinionIs Scotland set to repeat the mistakes of Kickstart?
Yes, says Malcolm Fraser of Malcolm Fraser Architects; no, argues housing minister Alex Neil, it’s vital for the nation
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Scotland takes up Kickstart idea
The Scottish government has set up its version of the Kickstart programme to get work going again on mothballed housing sites.
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NewsMPs quiz minister over Kickstart
Housing minister John Healey has come under fire from fellow MPs for the first time over the Kickstart programme and its funding for “grotty” homes
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NewsParliament to grill HCA boss over Kickstart
BD’s Come Clean on Kickstart campaign scored a political coup this week as the communities & local government select committee announced it would grill the government and the Homes & Communities Agency on the matter, while the shadow housing minister tabled 10 new parliamentary questions
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NewsHCA and Cabe close ranks over Kickstart – but chairman admits shock over standards
Cabe and the Homes & Communities Agency have insisted they still have a well functioning relationship amid the row over Kickstart design standards.
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NewsPersimmon the big winner in first tranche of Kickstart 2
The Homes & Communities Agency has announced details of the first schemes it will fund under round two of its controversial Kickstart programme, with Persimmon Homes winning public money for the most number of schemes.
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NewsHCA sees scores for Kickstart rocket
Kickstart-funded housing developments given low Building for Life scores by Cabe were reassessed for the Homes & Communities Agency and subsequently scored far higher
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Cabe told assessors to destroy scores
Kickstart ‘enablers’ reveal more evidence of secrecy culture at architecture watchdog
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OpinionWhat a difference a year makes…
Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons on why “nothing poor” must be built with public money – one year ago
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OpinionCabe’s paranoid tendencies
Our quest to uncover the Kickstart scores has growing parallels with the MPs’ expenses scandal
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Prasad backs Come Clean on Kickstart campaign
Sunand Prasad has become the latest past president of the RIBA to lend his weight to BD’s Come Clean on Kickstart campaign.
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NewsHCA cuts Cabe’s role in Kickstart round 2
Fears over squeezing of design quality under the government’s £1 billion Kickstart programme intensified this week as details emerged of a substantial reduction in Cabe’s scrutiny of the initiative