HIGH-rise flats offer great views, but they also attract sky-high mortgage rates. Buyers might have to pay more than three times the average rate for a home loan - as much as 14%. And that is if they ...

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Good morning. The government has an ambitious housing target that would be easier to achieve if it could do two things: better support the construction of tower blocks, and dispel some of the fears ...

A vast number of UK housing tower blocks arose from often ignoble motives and shaky logic, writes LSE professor Patrick Dunleavy Between 1945 and 1975, the UK built 440,000 high-rise flats for public ...

THANK you for publishing Alistair Grant's article outlining the evidence given to Holyrood’s Local Government and Communities Committee last week on the knock-on effect for Scottish high rise homes ...

Last month, two children fell to their deaths from the upper floors of two blocks of flats. The cases are under review, but are already sparking questions about window safety and landlord ...

A severely delayed high-rise living accommodation development is believed to have suffered a further setback with construction staff appearing to be removing previously laid brickwork from the top ...

Birmingham residents have rallied in support of a dad-of-four who refuses to move from a city high rise - urging him to: "Stand his ground." Ezekiel Hermon is the only resident left to be rehoused ...

Strict new rules have been enforced stating repairs and inspection will not be marked as complete unless all smoke alarms in the property are tested. If the alarms do not work then whg will provide ...

I HAVE never lived in a high-rise home and will never want to (Letters, July 7). The thought of being shut away in a little box with a steel door sends shivers up my back. I would definitely feel ...