All Archive Titles articles – Page 847
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Clarification on car mileage
In reply to the letter from M Harrison ("Board payment is tax on car mileage" 26 March, page 26), I can confirm that the National Housing Federation is working with a small group of registered social landlords to clarify and resolve problems surrounding board member payment. In particular, we will ...
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Archive TitlesCABE paper calls on quangos to merge
The prospect of a merger between the Housing Corporation and regeneration quango English Partnerships has been raised again.
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Build more homes for sale, please
Re: “North Country and council to build homes for sale to tenants” (19 March, page 19). I hope other councils will follow what appears to be a very good initiative. The overcrowding issue in London and other parts of the country needs to be looked at properly.
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Archive TitlesRace riot towns bring in Northern Irish mediators
East Lancashire pathfinder and Home Office call on specialists to tackle community divisions
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Borderline case
Borderline case: Developer Circadian has pledged to fight for the development of this scheme even though planning permission has been refused.The £500m, mixed-use scheme with 382 affordable homes was designed by Sir Terry Farrell for a site on the bank of the Thames. It includes a 25-storey tower in Kensington ...
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Housing Bill changes to mean more intervention powers
Late changes to the Housing Bill will make it easier for the Housing Corporation to intervene in the running of associations.
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Hexagon, Hyde and L&Q vie for Beaver's homes
Three major housing associations are in the race to take over the 3420 homes of troubled south London registered social landlord Beaver Housing.
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Near miss for Birmingham on repairs backlog target
Council aimed to clear 48,000 jobs by end of March and has just 1400 remaining
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Archive TitlesNorthern associations face prospect of shotgun weddings
Housing Corporation's Northern supremo sets out 10-year vision of rationalisation
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Places for People appoints new chair
Supervised housing association Places for People has a new chair.
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Walsall gets another inspection drubbing
Walsall council continued its run of poor inspection reports on 30 March when it was awarded no stars for strategic housing services by the Audit Commission.
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Question mark remains over North-west cash allocations
The North West Development Agency has backtracked on claims that it had decided which schemes would face cuts after a reassessment of its budget.
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Barker: the aftermath
It's great that the government accepted the Barker Report's call for more affordable homes. But there are still questions to be answered if we are to see the end of the housing crisis
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Are agency workers employees after all?
A recent Court of Appeal decision means employers should carefully review their use of long-term temporary workers
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Desperately seeking accountants
Finance people appear to be in demand, which is one reason why there is a shortage of good people to recruit ("Counting house", 19 March, page 38). I wouldn't like to comment on whether this is because of more housing associations coming into the market.At Metropolitan, we don't offer cars ...
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7000 energy-efficient homes for Oldham and Rochdale
oldham and rochdale are to get 7000 new homes built to the highest levels of energy efficiency and adaptability for the disabled.
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Scottish Executive to spend £284m
The Scottish Executive is to invest £284m in affordable housing in 2004/5.
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We could have built 2000 homes, says snubbed Notting Hill
Notting Hill Housing Group would have doubled its £180m development programme for 2004/6 if it had become one of the Housing Corporation's exclusive list of development partners.