Developing in a more challenging environment

Developing in a more challenging environment

One thing about the property business is that it’s never boring. We like to think that we are pretty good at innovating new ways of creating space and having ideas that make a project happen. Then something comes along which makes us think again. Right down at...
What’s that light at the end of the tunnel?

What’s that light at the end of the tunnel?

This article was originally written by Tony for the Hull  & Humber Chamber of Commerce in Summer 2013. There’s no denying that construction has been hit harder than most industries by the downturn, and our region has certainly had it worse than most. The health of...
Hyde Park Flats Sheffield 1988

Hyde Park Flats Sheffield 1988

While rooting through the image library this photograph turned up. It’s of the Hyde Park Flats complex in Sheffield in about 1988, taken for a long forgotten college assignment. It’s a dramatic (if grainy) image that shows how aspirations for public...
An alternative Moor

An alternative Moor

Sheffield has developed over the years to reach out from the confluence of the River’s Don and Sheaf next to the long gone Sheffield Castle. While this in itself isn’t unusual in British town morphology, what is different in Sheffield when compared to most...

Housebuilding showing some signs of life

Along with the improved weather, April saw some encouraging indicators that life some is being breathed back into the new homes market from the unprecedented lows seen over the last two years. During the first quarter of 2010 a total of 31,038 new homes were...