House building: latest news

• Taylor Wimpey and Redrow report trading uplift
• Plans unveiled for £500m regeneration of Purfleet
• Stalled housing schemes get £450m kickstart
• Miller cracks the Code for Sustainable Homes
• Cuddy boss launches house-building business
• Redrow gets OK for £150m rights issue, makes acquisition
• IMAGES: Plans submitted for £5.5bn Battersea Power Station revamp
• Prince Charles plans 2,000 homes in Somerset countryside
• IMAGES: Kevin McCloud gets planning OK for Swindon project
• 40 firms shortlisted by HCA for housing delivery framework

Latest from the Brickonomics blog

• Optimism alive and kicking in construction
• Orders figures continue to point to a rougher road ahead
• Growing evidence of double dip collapse for construction
• Falling construction helps hold UK in recession
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