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Archive TitlesRegeneration game
The 2004 Regeneration Awards feature social landlords more prominently than ever. Elaine Knutt looked at what makes a good renewal scheme great
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A lot of front
New key worker housing is at the forefront of a scheme to regenerate Deptford High Street, south-east London.
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Putting safety first
Offering Housing staff bulletproof VESTS appears a drastic, almost unbelievable step
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How do you justify this engineer lock-out?
Intruder alarm installers and others working within the industry are frequently talking about intruder alarm servicing and maintenance and, most importantly, how to retain customers.I am proud to admit that I have devised a (nearly) failsafe plan which ensures that installers retain their customers now and into the future. ...
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Editorial
At a trade show around the turn of the Millennium I heard a CCTV manufacturer confidently predicting the end of analogue “within five years”. If your only take on the CCTV industry was visiting trade shows and reading the trade magazines you might get the impression he was right and ...
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Editorial
Installation companies have been given a breathing space with the extension to the introduction of the Euro standards. Now that it’s been put back to October 2005 it will allow installers to work to either BS or Euro regs for a period of parallel running. This seems to be ...
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Simple way to eliminate ‘drive-offs’
I read with interest your articles over the past few months and especially “Big bother at the pumps” in November about the amount of crime on the forecourt – especially “drive-offs”.What amazes me is that we seem to be the only country in Europe and probably the world ...
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A plan to reduce the disappeared
Your article on “The Disappeared” reveals a state of affairs that, although legally correct, seems somewhat inequitable.
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Make disability a priority
The ODPM has published research findings that correlate with what we, at John Grooms Housing Association, have been saying for sometime now: There are not enough houses for disabled people in this country.
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Grant to developers won’t work: look at the history
If the government’s plan to pay grant to developers would result in an expansion of the social housing programme – or delivery at lower cost while maintaining quality – associations would support it. But previous initiatives demonstrate this will not happen
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Detective stories
PIR detectors are more focused than ever on cutting false alarms and making installation easier
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London tenants demand inquiry into rent variations
A group of tenants has called on the government to investigate high property valuations in London.
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Womens nightmare prolonged by council
Two women’s suffering at the hands of a problem neighbour went on for a year longer than it need have done – because the local council botched their complaints
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Contracts will keep grants to developers fair, says ODPM
Government aims to appease RSLs and regulate builders with tough accreditation deals
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Sustainable communities in Thames Gateway under threat
Report says high service charges may stop would-be tenants moving to high-density estates
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Sensationalist spying comment
I read with interest the editor’s Comment (“Rules of the new spying game”, HT 12 November).
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Poverty's child
Youth group Kids Company launched an exhibition of artwork at the Tate Modern in London yesterday.
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Archive TitlesGardiner girls go starkers for charity
The girls of Gardiner Security have stripped off – to help raise money for the Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Fund of the Manchester Children’s Hospitals Charity.
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First CHAR director
There was an error in your profile of Chris Holmes (“Stately Holmes”, HT, 5 November).