Sentences with phrase «house building schemes»

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Residential building groups need to admit that the «first home buyer» scheme was subjected to abuse and artificially increased house prices.

The council will be involved as an official partner, along with housing association Liverpool Mutual Homes, which will build new homes as part of the overall regeneration scheme.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

Dr Diana Montgomery, Chief Executive of the Association, said: «First, having highlighted the need for government clarity around its plans to support house building, we are pleased that the Help to Buy scheme has been extended to 2020.

Our campaign highlights that planning regulations don't make it easy for providers to build retirement housing, which is why so few schemes are being built.

He added that the scheme was «offering excellent value for money for taxpayers» and had helped drive up house building to its highest level since 2007.

David Cameron announced increased discounts to encourage council tenants to buy their homes, alongside a «build now, pay later» scheme to encourage developers to build on government land and only pay for it once a house is sold.

The Conservatives have expressed more scepticism that the country can build its way out of a housing crisis, while individual local councils have proved resistant to many housing schemes.

Cameron is, with a straight face, using the Help to Buy scheme on a debate on house building.

The scheme would require 90 % support among local people, but the Commission, which includes the Local Government Association and the Campaign To Protect Rural England, said it would bring conflict to village communities and become an obstacle to house - building.

Commenting on today's release of the Q3 Funding for Lending scheme data Paul Broadhead, Head of Mortgage Policy at the BSA said: «Building societies and other mutual lenders have consistently led the mortgage market this year, helping people to buy for the first time or move house.

Recommendations range from a need to build more affordable housing, through to proposals for a «Help to Rent» scheme which could help more young people negotiate the challenges of saving for a deposit and costly monthly rents, as well as better mental health support and incentives to encourage companies to take on more young apprentices.

Zac's passion and plans for house building - and emphasis on «ownership» not just rental schemes — earned support from a diverse group of voters, united in a desire for ownership to be a reality not a political pipe - dream.

As Aaron Carr, executive director of the Housing Rights Initiative, put it: «I've investigated hundreds of buildings, but never seen a scheme as egregious and systematic as this one.»

In doing so, he would reverse the seemingly endless progress of Morrison's scheme to «build the Tories out of London» and actually provide some Tory housing in Newham!

Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to extend shared - equity schemes to help people get on the housing ladder and plans to encourage more «affordable» homes to be built.

But this new «Buy now, Pay later» scheme addresses the commercial side of house building.

Labour's «Help to Build» scheme will attempt to address this through improving access to finance by guaranteeing a proportion of bank loans to small house builders.

In advance of the Budget, the opposition called for a cut in VAT and a one - off tax on bankers» bonuses to fund youth job schemes and affordable house building.

According to the architects, the scheme wouldn't just help residents stay above water level, it would also allow for more housing in coastal areas that might otherwise be considered unfit for building.

Ben Stiller is starring as the overworked manager of a luxury tower building, who, along with his staff, plots to get financial revenge on the crooked Wall Street fat cat (Alda) who swindled them out of their life savings with a Ponzi scheme, and now happens to be under house arrest in their building with his ill - gotten gains.

With a bouncy rhyme scheme reminiscent of This Is the House That Jack Built, Susan Meyers takes children on a delightful journey of a lost teddy bear in Bear in the Air.

You can invest a fixed amount of money (varies from fund house to fund house, but generally starts from $ 500 for monthly plan and $ 1500 for quarterly plan) in a mutual fund scheme of your choice on a regular interval (monthly or quarterly) and build your investment portfolio.

Originally built to house the people working on the Upper Waitaki Hydro Power Lakes scheme, Twizel is now a popular holiday spot for many.

With the start of the new module on alternative housing schemes, we have been looking at the document Building for Life 12 to assessment the housing area by using three colours, green, amber... Read more

The Main Street area of your town also accommodates new buildings, such as a Gardening Shop run by the happy sloth Leif, Club LOL which is a new nightclub hosted by Dr. Shrunk and DJ K.K., Brewster's Café which replaces The Roost from previous games, Tom Nook's new business scheme endeavor Nook's Homes — which works as a housing remodeling shop — and Kicks, the skunk, now has his own shoe shop appropriately called Kicks.

Other scenes and sources originate from architects and designers who created their own softened versions of modernism, such as The Sonneveld House, a family home built by architects Brinkman and Van der Vlugt in 1933 in Rotterdam, or Eric Lyons?s 1950s Parkleys, part of the Span Housing scheme at Ham Common in London.

English landscape gardeners attempted to create a similar mood in the parks of country houses by incorporating appropriate buildings in their schemes.

When a scheme to unite a number of government offices on the site of Somerset House in the Strand was projected, his position did not give him automatic authority over the construction; however when William Robinson, secretary to the board, who had been put in charge of the new building, died in 1775, Chambers became its architect.

Hank Dittmar, the American - born chief executive of the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, has an op - ed in today's Guardian on a scheme to accommodate England's 3 million planned housing units in walkable, mixed - use, low - carbon neighborhoods where residents benefit from connectedness to city and community life.

Building the third scheme to the passive house standard has only required a few tweaks to the design of phase two — including the selection of MVHR over DCV, an upgrade from double to triple glazing, and a 40 mm increase in external insulation to the walls, which are all built from single leaf nine inch hollow blocks.

A scheme of social housing in Dublin has become the first to achieve the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC)'s Home Performance Index (HPI) label.

Of course it doesn't always play out nice & neat being the government & all but hey, it's the government not a Swiss watch factory... In this case the alternative is for us all to join the ponzi scheme of building more power plants to power the non-subsidized energy pig houses.

Hastoe Housing, a trailblazer in the development of affordable passive housing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy effiHousing, a trailblazer in the development of affordable passive housing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy effihousing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy efficiency.

There's something very heartening to see these kids developing a deeper connection with their built environments — that housing is not something that magically appears or comes about without consideration about how it fits into a greater scheme of things.

«Our initial estimation is that by building to passive house the scheme could altogether save up to # 25,000 a year in energy costs, with some residents being able to save up to # 900 in a three - bedroom home.»

Political commitment, enthusiastic advocates and funding schemes rewarding energy efficiency measures made possible for Passive House to become the reference building standard in the Belgian Brussels Region.

While high performance building owes a great debt of gratitude to European pioneers like Dr. Wolfgang Feist of the Passivhaus Institut in Germany, standards like Passive House need to be aligned with the US market, US rating schemes, and US incentive programs to really take off here.

For a while now, schemes that aim to encourage the mass uptake of home energy upgrades — essential for cutting carbon emissions from our building stock — have tended to fall into two camps: those that focus on shallow measures like cavity wall insulation and new boilers, and deep retrofit like the Passive House Institute's Enerphit standard.

Achievement of the Passive House or EnerPHit Standard should also be aimed for and at least one building in the scheme must be certified.

Development: Five - unit sheltered housing scheme (54 — 63 sqm) Completed: February 2017 Location: Fairview, Dublin 3 Build method: Aerated concrete block with external insulation, foamed glass insulation to foundation Standard: A1 BER

Sustainable Energy Ireland's House of Tomorrow grant aid scheme has been successful in driving up standards in Irish residential building.

Not content with being Ireland's largest certified passive house scheme, Silken Park is also the first scheme by a commercial house builder to achieve the Irish Green Building Council's new Home Performance Index sustainability certification.

The third world is poor anyway and they can just build walls to keep the sea from rising like the did in the Neatherlands where as our economy is built on speculation and tax minisation schemes it's a finely balanced house of cards and the slightest call on GDP will bring the whole thing tumbling down.

A development of rapidly built, affordable, all electric passive houses set up to adapt easily to net zero energy, the scheme is also the first by a private developer to meet the Irish Green Building Council's promising new Home Performance Index sustainability certification scheme.

If there's one project that could break down mainstream resistance to sustainable building it's the 59 unit third phase of Durkan Residential's Silken Park housing scheme in Citywest — Ireland's largest certified passive house development to date.

The house building industry will also be keen to understand the government's longer term proposals for the popular scheme.

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