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The first ever garden villages, which have the potential to deliver more than 48,000 homes across England, have been given government backing. Three new garden towns have also been given the go ahead.

This follows a request for expressions of interest from local areas with ambitious and innovative proposals to deliver 1,500 homes and above.

CITB chief executive Adrian Belton has resigned after three years in the job. He stepped down at the end of December, with chief financial officer and corporate performance director, Sarah Beale, becoming acting chief executive. When Mr Belton became chief executive of the CITB in January 2014, his brief was to, “deliver change that will equip the organisation for the next 50 years”.

Are you a builder or architect in Yorkshire? We're hosting 'Innovation in Construction' an event for small to medium enterprises. 

Hear from industry experts and have your questions answered by local building control teams. We'll be talking about supported routes to compliance and you'll hear from Jewson, Rogers Geotech,  Uretek, LABC Warranty and Automist, Yorkon about the latest design and building solutions.

The seminar will run from 9.00am-3.00pm on:

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Congratulations to Richard Scott who succeeded Jayne Hall as President of LABC for 2016-2017.

Every year a local authority building control member is elected as Junior Vice President, who then in turn becomes President after two years. Richard has 26 years' of experience in building control and is Building Control Manager at Ashfield District Council. Previously, Richard has worked as a Building Control Surveyor and then Building Control Team Leader at Mansfield District Council.

The British construction industry could lose out on 215,000 EU workers if there’s a ‘hard’ Brexit.

According to research carried out for Arcadis by the Centre for Economics and Business Research, the reduction in the British construction work force could be equal to the entire population of Luton.

Jewson Live, the UK's biggest trade show for construction industry professionals, takes place on Thursday 15th December 2016 at the NEC in Birmingham, and LABC's own Martin Taylor will be there to talk about building regulation compliance.

The event will have:

AHCHP Prescot Road in Liverpool, was awarded the title of Best Public Service Building at the Grand Final of the LABC Building Excellence Awards – one of the most recognised events on the building industry’s calendar.

A report by the Scape Group looks at the current school building challenge across England, by analysing primary and secondary pupil projection numbers from the Department of Education and local authorities. 

A new report written by Mark Farmer, CEO of Cast Consultancy on behalf of the Construction Leadership Council provides a stark review of the problems within the construction industry.