All Archive Titles articles – Page 701
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Forestry Commission plans land sale for rural homes
The Forestry Commission Scotland is reviewing its 660,000 ha land portfolio to see how much of it could be sold for affordable housing.
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Archive TitlesComfort food
Can a free cup of soup from well-wishers really be bad for you? Some groups who work with the homeless think so. Chloe Stothart finds out what their beef is with soup runs
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Come on, let’s work together
Unitary management is good for tenants, for RSLs and for achieving the holy grail of efficiency.
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Clean sweep
Staff from Midland Area Housing Association, including neighbourhood housing officer Ron Anderson, gave up their weekend to help clean up Birmingham’s streets.
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Bullseye
The ODPM has given Dartford council £3m to acquire land for its town-centre regeneration.
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Lib Dem peer blasts ‘unrealistic’ Tory strategy on Traveller sites
The Conservatives’ action plan to protect towns and villages against illegal Gypsy and Traveller sites has been lambasted as “unrealistic” and “unnecessary” by Liberal Democrat peer Lord Avebury.
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North-east plan calls for big increase in housebuilding
Housebuilding in theNorth-east needs to climb by more than 50% a year and demolitions must also increase, according to the draft regional spatial strategy published last week.
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Sector will probably not hit Barker target, says property expert
A leading property consultant has warned that private developers and registered social landlords will struggle to build the extra homes demanded by the Barker report.
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Back with a bulletproof vest
Before your readers run away with the idea that all London & Quadrant staff need bulletproof vests (“London housing officers to get bulletproof vests”, 19 November, page 7) , I think I need to set the record straight.
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Prince Charles attempts to revive rural housing initiative
The Prince of Wales has reiterated a call for landowners and businesses to do more to tackle the “acute lack of housing” in rural areas.
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Associations relieved as corporation revamps ‘creaking’ grant software
The much-derided computer system used by the Housing Corporation to process its investment programme is to be rewritten to make it more user-friendly, write Stuart Macdonald and Eleanor Snow.
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GLA asks landlords to try ‘social engineering’ on new estates
Corporation echoes call for London councils and RSLs to reserve homes for people in work
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What is an... ASB Tenancy enforcement officer?
Andrea O’Callaghan tells Vikki Miller about teaching people to tolerate different lifestyles
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Councils concerned at area boards plan
Scottish councils have claimed that their worst fears have been realised following the publication of the Scottish executive’s draft plan for housing market area boards.
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Archive TitlesArchitect and timber specialis
A new off-site manufacturing system for affordable housing has been launched.
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A breath of fresh air
At Rockingham Forest, we fully endorse the suggestion that associations should be open to job applicants from outside the sector (“No way in”, 15 October, page 28).
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Survival in the age of merger mania
Staff wanting job security may think they have the law on their side when RSLs merge. But if they don’t stand up for themselves, their new employer could make life hard
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Inspectors give Acton one star
Acton Housing Association’s tenancy and estate management service has been rated “fair” by Audit Commission inspectors.