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Rochdale News | News Headlines | Planning application could see demolition of dilapidated bungalow overlooking Hollingworth Lake


The bungalow on Lake Side
Planning permission is being sought to demolish a dilapidated bungalow overlooking Hollingworth Lake and replace it with two detached houses.
Construction work began on 15 Lake Side in 1998, but it has stood unfinished for years whilst being the subject of lengthy legal disputes.
The bungalow has been deemed to be ‘a blight on this attractive area of the borough’ by the council, which authorised a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) on the house in 2018.
 
As previously reported by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, 15 Lake Side had been intended to be the dream retirement home for Dr Stephen Watkins and his wife Elizabeth. They had their hearts set on a new-build bungalow on the shores of Hollingworth Lake – complete with its own library for the hundreds of books Dr Watkins had collected over the years.

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Builders 'set to construct more detached and semi-detached homes'


Builders ‘set to construct more detached and semi-detached homes’
Demand for detached and semi-detached houses has grown, according to the NHBC (Yui Mok/PA)
More detached and semi-detached homes are in the housebuilding pipeline, as the demand for properties with space to work from home has grown, according to an industry body.
The National House Building Council (NHBC), a warranty and insurance provider, said the number of new home build registrations generally was up by 10% in the first quarter of 2021 compared with a year earlier.
It said the figures are evidence that the sector has “bounced back” following the disruption previously caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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UK Builders to Construct Bigger Homes as More People Work From Home


UK Builders to Construct Bigger Homes as More People Work From Home
British house builders are set to construct more detached and semi-detached homes, as the demand grows for properties with space to work from home, an industry body has said.
The National House Building Council (NHBC), a warranty and insurance provider, said the housing sector has “bounced back” following the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the number of new home build registrations up by 10 percent in the first quarter of 2021 compared with a year earlier.
Across the UK, 36,863 new homes were registered with NHBC in the first quarter of 2021 compared with 33,388 in the same period last year.

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Taylor Wimpey targets nature net-gain under new sustainability strategy

Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has published an updated environment strategy, with headline targets including science-based emissions reductions and a commitment to increase habitat at all new sites.

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Builders 'set to construct more detached and semi-detached homes'


Demand for detached and semi-detached houses has grown, according to the NHBC (Yui Mok/PA)
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More detached and semi-detached homes are in the housebuilding pipeline, as the demand for properties with space to work from home has grown, according to an industry body.
The National House Building Council (NHBC), a warranty and insurance provider, said the number of new home build registrations generally was up by 10% in the first quarter of 2021 compared with a year earlier.

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Grenfell is still giving up its secrets and they retain the power to shock | Kenan Malik


The government’s obstinacy is unfathomable. It is also unsurprising. For, as the Grenfell Tower inquiry has exposed, the state – at local and national level – has continually colluded with business to the detriment of ordinary people. Private companies continued to sell materials they knew could kill. Governments and regulators refused to act. Locals who spoke up were damned as “troublemakers”. Arconic, the company that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, knew it to be a firetrap. The firm created more fire-resistant cladding to use in countries with tighter regulations, such as Germany, but pushed the dangerous version in Britain. It allowed it to be used in a form called a “cassette” (in which panels are bent into a box shape to hide the fixings) even though it recognised as far back as 2004 that this could be lethal in a fire. The cassette system was used on Grenfell Tower. An internal memo from 2007 forecast that a fire in buildings with such cladding could result in “60 to 70” deaths; 72 people were killed in Grenfell. Arconic misled the certification body, the British Board of Agrément (BBA), which passed it as safe.

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Grenfell is still giving up its secrets and they retain the power to shock


Grenfell is still giving up its secrets and they retain the power to shock
Kenan Malik
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Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
It is not just the broken promise, it is also the pitilessness of it. In February, Boris Johnson told parliament, in the wake of the cladding scandal, that “no leaseholder should have to pay for the unaffordable costs of fixing defects that they didn’t cause”.
The fire safety bill became law last week, but only after MPs five times rejected attempts to provide financial support for leaseholders facing ruinous costs for the replacement of inflammable cladding. There is a fund of £5bn to support leaseholders in taller tower blocks, although the real cost of replacing the cladding could be three times that amount. For leaseholders in blocks under 18 metres high there is not even inadequate support.

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Housebuilders heart hedgehogs: Taylor Wimpey debuts new environmental strategy, as industry publishes biodiversity guide


Housebuilders heart hedgehogs: Taylor Wimpey debuts new environmental strategy, as industry publishes biodiversity guide
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Jessica Rawnsley
Taylor Wimpey, one of the UK's largest residential homebuilders, has announced a string of "ambitious" climate targets as part of its new environmental strategy.
The strategy, titled 'Building a Better World', sets a series of targets to curb its direct environmental impacts, alongside specific pledges to enhance nature on new developments, achieve science-based carbon reduction goals,;and make it easier for customers to live in a more sustainable way.

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Future of Modular Construction | Promoting the benefits of offsite construction in housing


Future of Modular Construction | Promoting the benefits of offsite construction in housing
Research into the benefits and challenges of using modern methods of construction in the housing sector could help the wider construction industry gain greater insight.
Five years after Mark Farmer’s industry review told the UK construction sector to “modernise or die”, Homes England-funded research is very much aimed at making sure the housing sector consciously chooses to modernise. Homes England is the agency charged with the task of supporting developers to deliver on government’s aims around new homes.
The research is being carried out by the MMC Research Commission, a team led by Atkins and its subsidiary Faithful & Gould. It is one year into a six year study that is analysing the benefits and challenges to the housing market presented by modern methods of construction (MMC) such as modular units manufactured offsite. 

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