All Archive Titles articles – Page 519
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Archive TitlesA rotten place to live
Our inner cities are uninviting wastelands that people are quitting in droves. To get them back, we have to combat the root causes of criminality – and we can start, says John Callcutt, by making nurseries and schools the centre of our regenerated communities
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Legal
Regeneration partners need to think carefully before entering into joint ownership of an organisation
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Legal
Landlords have a legal duty to check the safety of their gas appliances. But what if the tenant won’t let them in?
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Archive TitlesLegless in Leeds
Later this month new licensing laws will come into force that will allow bars to open longer. Great news for them, but what will it do for regeneration? Our reporter went to the UK’s first 24-hour city, Leeds, to ask a few of the regulars. Photographs by Tim Foster
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Archive TitlesLatest thinking on … family
Demographic studies show that we need more apartments for single people, so why is family housing an issue?
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Environment
Landowners and developers now have retrospective responsibility for contaminated land. So take extreme care
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Archive TitlesA darker shade of green
At the heart of Slateford Green’s claims to be an environmentally sustainable housing development is its car-free status. But how green is it really – and how successful has it been with its mixed-tenure residents? Photographs by Julian Anderson
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Communities
Developer Linden Homes set up a community trust to do what the council wouldn’t do – look after its mixed scheme
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Archive TitlesThe car driver hates the cyclist who hates the pedestrian who hates the car driver…
… but they all hate the man who takes the bus. Peter Brett Associates asks what this tells us about attitudes to public transport and how we can overcome resistance and get people to use greener modes of getting about in regeneration areas
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Archive TitlesThe faces behind the system
Planning officers are musty bureaucrats hell bent on applying rules and procedures. Elected members are people of whimsical mind and an excessive interest in car movements, whose prime concern is keeping the electorate sweet. Local people are nimbys who don’t want development of any kind.
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All mixed up
It’s the ideal that’s meant to ensure social harmony: mixed-tenure developments. So why are the for-sale properties full of homeless families?
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Archive TitlesCalling time on alcohol-fuelled regeneration
Let’s raise a glass to the developers of pubs and bars for all they’ve done for regeneration.
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Archive TitlesDiane Abbott
As MP for Hackney, one of the poorest and most crime-ridden boroughs in the UK, Diane Abbott is all for regeneration. But it has to start with people not buildings – people like the youth gangs hanging about her street. Photographs by Julian Anderson
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5 Questions
The Highways Agency explains its attitude to supporting development and justifies those Article 14 notices
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Archive TitlesAppointments
Security Management Today keeps you up-to-date with all the latest people moves in the security sector
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Archive TitlesSadev Spider supports
A new range of lightweight Sadev spider supports for holding up large panels of glass connected on point fixings, has been launched in the UK by Prefit.
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Strata proves shipshape
Architects working on the new Butlins Shoreline Hotel at Bognor Regis required a very specific look for their client’s brief. Incorporating round ends and porthole windows, this landlocked ship faces out towards the English Channel.