Builders

It’s The Land Stupid

Let’s talk about how to fix Britain’s housing crisis and boost its sluggish economy, only please ignore the elephant in the room – land reform […]

In the 1980s a Cambridgeshire farmer in a small rural community sold land for housing at the then current agricultural price. Despite meeting a great deal of resistance at the time this model could form […]

Britain’s Broken Housebuilding Sector

What housebuilders want from politicians is business as usual. What politicians want from housebuilders are political donations […]

Cambridge’s Latest Export – Biodiversity

In a world where anything we value has a price and is traded, hardly surprising a person’s access to biodiversity and clean water is determined by class. […]

Bye Bye Biodiversity

Is sacrificing biodiversity targets the only way to maintain Cambridge’s growth during a recession in the building industry. […]

Close to Sustainability? Don’t Bank On It

Why splash out on an expensive waste disposal service if toxic runoff from the site could be dumped on adjacent land. But what about that sustainability commitment on Close Brother’s website […]

Bryant and Maybe

On the 3rd of March 1994, Gordon Bell and Triston Frampton founded a company called Bell Frampton Ltd which specialised in refurbishing public houses and travel lodges: a large proportion of its work came from […]

The Day The Builders Came

There have probably been worse building sites in Cambridgeshire, a result of the county’s seemingly unstoppable growth, although I cannot recall one quite as bad this […]

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