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8 June 2011
A pilot scheme to demonstrate how energy-efficient design will play a role in social housing for the future has opened its doors in Glasgow with protection from Glidevale.
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5 October 2011
28 new affordable homes consisting of both separate semi-detached houses and one, three-storey block of flats. There will be two one-bed flats, four two-bed flats, 13 two-bed houses and nine three-bed houses, one of which will be made suitable for a wheelchair bound resident. The site is completed with 51 parking spaces and makes use of micro-renewable technology in the shape of solar roof tiles.
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14 October 2011
Changes to government funding structures for social housing allow Councils, for the first time in nearly thirty years, to build directly-owned houses for rent. Capitalising on these changes, Ashford Council embarked on a programme of building that is likely to see some 20 units per year added to the council-owned portfolio using private sector finance to fund the development.
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24 January 2012
The £4.5m project Grödians Housing project, at Quoys, Lerwick on the Scottish islands of Shetland is the most northerly project leading supplier NorDan has ever provided windows to, in the United Kingdom.
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5 October 2011
The four-storey development comprises 50 one and two-bedroom apartments for residents with special care needs, where the on-site amenities include consultancy rooms, activity rooms, communal lounges, a hairdressers, café restaurant, landscaped garden and a waterfall in the reception area.
