Timber-frame construction, in which a traditional-looking block is erected around a wooden skeleton, now accounts for 60% of all new social housing. Once reserved primarily for individual houses, the ...

A blaze at City Wall Avenue in Canterbury on 3 July left five apartments destroyed, the front of the building collapsed and a further 25 homes severely affected. The incident follows a fire at ...

The fire ripped through the apartment block just inside Canterbury’s Roman city walls. It started at about 2pm on 4 July as a small blaze in an airing cupboard, likely from a boiler. But it quickly ...

Review will focus on residential buildings after blaze at south London site last month The London Assembly Planning and Housing Committee is conducting a review of fire safety in timber framed ...

Using timber to build houses is relatively new here, so you may be in trouble if the man on the site putting timber-frame kits… Using timber to build houses is relatively new here, so you may be in ...

When the production of high-quality leather ceased on the centuries-old tannery site in the cathedral city of Canterbury, it became the site of the largest housing development inside the city walls ...