Gordon Brown yesterday made his clearest pledge yet that he will lift restrictions preventing councils from building more homes, possibly by allowing more of them to set up construction companies or providing short term finance for stalled public-private building programmes. Downing Street policymakers regard councils as one of the quickest ways to keep a house building programme alive because the...
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Guardian on 30th Jan 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
European building societies are launching a pre-emptive strike against any fresh rules on mortgage finance, claiming that the financial crisis should not be "misused as a pretext for uniform EU-wide regulation of housing finance".
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FT on 2nd Sep 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Hah! On the stump, Obama liked to joke that a building in the Cayman Islands that was the registered home of 12,000 plus US companies was "either the biggest building in the world or the biggest tax scam on record." But the Cayman Islands is dinging back, a press release has just dropped in my inbox from them pointing out that 1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington Delaware, Joe Biden’s home sta...
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ObnoxioTheClown on 15th May 2009 (via obotheclown.blogspot.com)
An environment campaigner tried to glue himself to Gordon Brown during a reception at 10 Downing Street yesterday. Dan Glass, 24, was protesting on behalf of the group Plane Stupid, which opposes the building of a third runway at Heathrow. After smuggling a small quantity of adhesive through security, Mr Glass applied it to his hands during the ceremony, at which his work as an activist was being ...
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TheIndependent on 23rd Jul 2008 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
Mike Rouse sets out his view on the decision to build the new Number 10 Downing Street website on Wordpress.
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TheWardmanWire on 15th Aug 2008 (via mattwardman.com)
I missed the story about the new prayer room at Downing Street. Apparently, it's the Cabinet Office's second one. There is another at the building on Great Smith Street. A spokesman said that the "reflection and multi-faith room" had been set up to give staff a place to pray. In a written Parliamentary answer, Cabinet Office minister Ed Miliband explained that the prayer room has been establish...
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PubPhilosopher on 23rd Sep 2008 (via pubphilosopher.blogs.com)
A rat has been photographed outside 10 Downing Street. Presumably the only thing that makes this news worthy is it was not exiting the building and getting into an official chauffeured government vehicle on its way to Parliament....
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Samizdata on 25th Jan 2011 (via samizdata.net)
Good morning, and welcome to Daily View on the day which sees New York’s Chrysler Building celebrate its 80th birthday. Completed in 1930, it was the tallest building in the world for all of 11 months, before being replaced by the Empire State Building. After 9/11, it is once again the second tallest building
I’ve been trying to discover the name and purpose of the building circled in red in the following map. It’s in London surrounded by Watermans Walk, Allhallows Lane and Angel passage. This is a photograph of mine taken from the opposite bank near Clink Street. Anyone any ideas?
What I’d be interested to know is whether this is in fact true? Centrica and other energy companies last week told DECC that, if Britain is to spend £100 billion on building thousands of wind turbines, it will require the building of 17 new gas-fired power stations simply to provide back-up for all those times
If you visit Blackpool and look up Victoria Street from the seafront (just to the left of the Tower building) you can see a large white semi-circular building with the words TER GARDENS aranged in an arc. If you approach it, it becomes apparent that this is the Winter Gardens and a bit of thoughtless
