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Stonewater retains SHIFT Gold award with highest-ever environmental score

|Date: 22 August, 2025

Stonewater retains SHIFT Gold award with highest-ever environmental score

Stonewater has once again achieved the prestigious SHIFT Gold accreditation in its latest annual environm ...

Stonewater has once again achieved the prestigious SHIFT Gold accreditation in its latest annual environmental assessment — securing 71.34%, its highest score yet. The SHIFT rating is the housing sect ...

22 August, 2025
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Tiny Forest planted in Haringey to provide miniature woodland for local community and wildlife

|Date: 8 August, 2025

Tiny Forest planted in Haringey to provide miniature woodland for local community and wildlife

A partnership between Tarmac Kier Joint Venture (TKJV), environmental charity Earthwatch Europe, Transpor ...

A partnership between Tarmac Kier Joint Venture (TKJV), environmental charity Earthwatch Europe, Transport for London (TfL) and Haringey Council has seen a Tiny Forest, the size of a tennis court, pla ...

8 August, 2025
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Key landmark demolished as innovation scheme enters new phase

|Date: 24 July, 2025

Key landmark demolished as innovation scheme enters new phase

Liverpool’s flagship £1bn Knowledge Quarter development is set to enter a new phase — following the compl ...

Liverpool’s flagship £1bn Knowledge Quarter development is set to enter a new phase — following the completion of the demolition of a key landmark. Removal of the former Smithdown Lane Police Station ...

24 July, 2025
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Redesigning the relationship between housing needs and housing delivery

|Date: 18 July, 2025

Redesigning the relationship between housing needs and housing delivery

Are we building homes for the sake of building? Dr Anna Pagani, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, ...

Are we building homes for the sake of building? Dr Anna Pagani, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, discusses how a housebuilding moratorium could provide the homes we actually need. The severit ...

18 July, 2025
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Power on at Flintshire County Council’s first net zero carbon school

|Date: 27 May, 2025

Power on at Flintshire County Council’s first net zero carbon school

With 1,080 solar panels on its roof, and a host of sustainable features, the new multi-million-pound camp ...

With 1,080 solar panels on its roof, and a host of sustainable features, the new multi-million-pound campus, delivered by Robertson Construction North West on behalf of WEPco, is now Flintshire County ...

27 May, 2025
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Two Years on: Progress continues with 112 affordable homes at Oxford North

|Date: 22 May, 2025

Two Years on: Progress continues with 112 affordable homes at Oxford North

Two years after announcing the delivery of affordable homes in Oxford, senior members of Oxford City Coun ...

Two years after announcing the delivery of affordable homes in Oxford, senior members of Oxford City Council met with The Hill Group, to celebrate a key construction milestone at Oxford North’s Canals ...

22 May, 2025
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Staying in the loop with water circularity

|Date: 4 June, 2024

Staying in the loop with water circularity

It is time to reconsider the ways in which we store, manage, and reuse water, says Martin Lambley, Global ...

It is time to reconsider the ways in which we store, manage, and reuse water, says Martin Lambley, Global Product Manager for Urban Climate Resilience at Wavin. The UK's water management infrastructur ...

4 June, 2024
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Planning approved for sustainable housing community in Cambourne

|Date: 19 January, 2024

Planning approved for sustainable housing community in Cambourne

The South Cambridgeshire Investment Partnership (SCIP), an equal partnership between South Cambridgeshire ...

The South Cambridgeshire Investment Partnership (SCIP), an equal partnership between South Cambridgeshire District Council and award-winning housebuilder The Hill Group, has received planning approval ...

19 January, 2024
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Plans submitted for mixed-tenure development at Fanshawe Road, Cambridge

|Date: 3 January, 2024

Plans submitted for mixed-tenure development at Fanshawe Road, Cambridge

The Cambridge Investment Partnership (CIP) has submitted plans for a new mixed-tenure development of 84 a ...

The Cambridge Investment Partnership (CIP) has submitted plans for a new mixed-tenure development of 84 affordable and market sale homes at Fanshawe Road in the Coleridge Ward of the city. The propose ...

3 January, 2024
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ForHousing marks milestone of planting 500 trees in Salford community

|Date: 28 December, 2023

ForHousing marks milestone of planting 500 trees in Salford community

Social housing landlord ForHousing has kicked off its annual winter tree planting programme by planting i ...

Social housing landlord ForHousing has kicked off its annual winter tree planting programme by planting its 500th tree in Moorfield Close, Swinton. The initiative, aimed at enhancing the local envir ...

28 December, 2023
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