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• Barratt contracted to build UK's first eco-village

  Dec 14 2007:

  Britain's biggest housebuilder is to build England's first eco-village, the housing and planning minister, Yvette Cooper, has announced

• Hips extended to all properties

  Dec 14 2007:

  Critics warn home information packs will damage an already sluggish market

• Q&A: Home information packs

  Dec 14 2007:

  Home information packs finally become compulsory on all homes today. So what does that mean for buyers and sellers?

• £50m lottery grant goes to new Sustrans network

  Dec 13 2007:

  Almost 30 years after the money ran out, leaving Glasgow's Bridge to Nowhere abandoned in mid-air, it will become part of a network of cycling and walking tracks which already wriggles across 12,000 miles of Britain

• Trump triumphs in golf course battle

  Dec 12 2007: Scottish council gives US property developer's £2bn golf complex in Scotland its 'full support'

• Housing affordability at worst level for 15 years

  Dec 12 2007:

  Housing affordability has fallen to its worst level in more than 15 years the Council of Mortgage Lenders said yesterday, with buyers struggling with high interest rates, sluggish earnings growth and soaring house prices

• Good grief

  Dec 10 2007: Must Britain's cemeteries and crematoriums be so drab and dreary? Steve Rose reports on moves to shake up the architecture of death

• Aldershot sheds pubs and paras image to lead the rise of the mini-city

  Dec 10 2007: · Oxford, York and Reading also popular, survey shows
  · Urban giants fare worse on social indicators

• Looking for a great place to bring up the kids? Try Leeds

  Dec 9 2007: Cambridge and Leeds are two of the best places for children to grow up, while Northampton is one of the worst, according to a report out today

• Government gives £50m boost to Tate Modern expansion

  Dec 6 2007: · Project expected to be ready in time for Olympics
  · Private funding sought for rest of £215m budget

• Alms race

  Dec 5 2007:

  Peter Hetherington charts the history of housing associations

• Housing policy should be based on needs, not predictions

  Dec 5 2007: Response: We need a robust planning system that prioritises the use of brownfield sites, says Neil Sinden

• Weaving some business magic

  Dec 5 2007:

  A special vocational course has given a group of Northern Ireland women the confidence and skills to sell their own products. By Alison Clarke

• HomeBuy opens another door for first-time buyers

  Dec 2 2007:

  A new scheme could cut mortgage costs by a third, writes Lisa Bachelor

• Brick Lane losing its flavour as corporates squeeze out curry

  Dec 2 2007: Brick Lane, the east London road symbolic of Britain's Bangladeshi community, could be under threat. Many of the restaurants that line the long, narrow street immortalised in Monica Ali's best-selling book face closure because of soaring rents

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