All Archive Titles articles – Page 762
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South-east ‘needs more roads or building target won’t be met’
Planners urge more infrastructure as A34 congestion stalls Oxfordshire developments
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Castle Vale cuts Birminghams jobless total
Castle Vale Housing Action Trust has helped to slash unemployment in parts of east Birmingham, according to a study of the organisation.
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Archive TitlesShark attack
Loan sharks are preying on your tenants – but help is at hand. Chloe Stothart reports on the community finance projects freeing people from the jaws of doorstep lenders.
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Help us rehouse asylum seekers, says NASS
The Home Office is seeking urgent help to rehouse an estimated 5000 asylum seekers affected by the termination of its contracts with two accommodation providers (HT 6 August, page 9).
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Unity out of supervision after improving governance
Unity Housing Association has been released from Housing Corporation supervision.
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Actually, I think youll find we won
Our senior management team and board members would like to congratulate Sunderland Housing for expecting to become the first RSL to achieve 100% decent homes standard by Christmas (30 July, page 13 and Letters, 6 August, page 21). We would also like to welcome them to the club. Tower Hamlets ...
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EP demands threaten to delay 3500 London homes
Rules on height and construction may make schemes too expensive, say developers
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Pathmeads in talks on managing 2000 homes in capital for Asset Trust
The Asset Trust is discussing its biggest social housing deal yet with a registered social landlord.
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2nd opinion: The forgotten people
Foisting change on traditional communities caused many of today’s problems with immigration.
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London RSLs set up £1m project to help benefit claimants open bank accounts
Ten London housing associations are to start a £1m project to encourage tenants to set up bank accounts so they can receive direct benefit payments.
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Winchester councillors try to get out of £511,000 buy-back deal
A winchester HOUSING association MAY be lumbered with two near-useless sites after councillors disagreed over a buy-back clause in the sale agreement.
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Travellers tales
Re: “Corporation will pay RSLs to build and manage Gypsy sites” (HT 30 July, page 9).The ODPM review of Gypsy and Traveller accommodation policy is ongoing, therefore no decisions have been taken about whether a statutory duty should be implemented, contrary to claims in last week’s magazine.It is true we ...
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Archive TitlesUse your sensors
Michael Rack continues Security Management Today’s ‘design primer’ series for end users looking to procure a suitable perimeter intrusion detection system by evaluating the remaining sensor systems available.
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Archive TitlesSafe to talk?
Security measures can cover everything from access control and intruder alarms through to computer firewalls and data encryption. Surprisingly, speech – perhaps the most common form of communication – is often overlooked. We argue why it’s every security manager’s duty to address the threat posed by covert electronic listening devices.
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Smooth operators
The Treasury has told social landlords to save £1.5bn in the next three years, but some organisations have already slashed their costs. Five of these super-efficient teams tell Eleanor Snow and Joey Gardiner how they overhauled finance, development, repairs and procurement.
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Archive TitlesNew play space
New play space: Alexandra Bruton, aged 8, enjoys the new Harvey Park play area on the Longwood estate in Slough, Berkshire. The play area is part of the £30m regeneration of the estate being conducted by Countryside Properties with Parkside Housing Group. The project includes the refurbishment of 192 flats ...