Think Tank Report Examines Government Plans
Gordon Brown’s Government has promised three million new homes, 60% of them on brownfield land. But according to a report from the respected think tank, Social Market Foundation (SMF), there’s just not enough brownfield to go around. SMF has done its sums, and reckons that at normal housing densities, only [continued]

Scala Land Group support the Gala celebration at the Hilton hotel, Park Lane.
The highly regarded Asian Achievers Awards this year was supported by Scala Land Group in recognition for the long-standing goodwill between Scala and the Asian community.
This year’s Chief Guest was the Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP and the distinguished guest list included Lord [continued]

The British economy is being stifled by antiquated planning laws and “nimby” attitudes that hinder the construction of offices, shops and roads, a government report will say today.
The British economy is being stifled by antiquated planning laws and “nimby” attitudes that hinder the construction of offices, shops and roads, a government report will say today. [continued]

Five million new homes will be needed in England over the next 20 years, 1.5 million of them because of record levels of immigration, according to Government figures published yesterday.
The Telegraph (15/03/2006)
Five million new homes will be needed in England over the next 20 years, 1.5 million of them because of record levels of immigration, [continued]

WILY Mark Guard has sold a plot of land for 3.5million pounds – after paying a measly 1,000 pounds for it.
Mark, 41, scraped together the cash for the land 11 years ago when he was on the dole. Now he has made a 350,000 per cent profit after it was snapped up by a house-building [continued]

In 2005 the Tories said that they would oppose all of John Prescott’s homebuilding plans in the South East and establish more green belts with even tighter planning regulations.
The Conservatives abandoned their traditional defence of the green belt yesterday and promised a programme of house building for first-time buyers.
In a speech that ignored much of [continued]

Despite the Government’s pledge to regenerate urban brownfield sites, developments have sprung up on land which has been redesignated from Green Belt status.
Green belt Land given Planning Permission Sprawling estates of ‘executive’ homes invade the Green Belt
Despite the Government’s pledge to regenerate urban brownfield sites, developments have sprung up on land which has been redesignated [continued]

The key to Scala’s success is identifying and acquiring greenfield land that’s likely to win planning permission for ’sustainable’ housing development. But what exactly are the criteria that define ’sustainable’?
There are several key factors we take into account. There’s the question of location. Nobody, least of all Scala, wants to see the countryside covered in [continued]

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