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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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4 October 2011
Contractor Masonry Frame Systems completed the aircrete inner shell of 39 new build houses and flats two weeks ahead of schedule at the Pinefields development in Addlestone, despite last winter being the coldest for decades. This was made possible by using the H+H Rå Build method of construction with thin-jointed aircrete block-work.
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09/09/2011
A year ago this week the collapse of social housing contractor Connaught caused panic, leaving landlords struggling to maintain services. Here, Carl Brown asks whether landlords and contractors have learned their lesson
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5 October 2011
Stondonfield is a contractor led social housing scheme whereby Collins and Beckett found the site and put together a complete package for the end client. It took a couple of years to get the project through planning due to objections by the local parish council that the land was outside allowed development areas. Permission was finally granted due to the existence of a local housing shortage.
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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.
