All Archive Titles articles – Page 876
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Archive TitlesThe case of the missing millions
When the cost of Supporting People soared £400m over budget, the ODPM got curious. There was nothing for it but to hire a special investigator – and last week, he revealed what he'd found. Chloe Stothart reopens the case
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Archive TitlesOn the case
Installations of which the installers are proud … from Birmingham to Brighton
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CBI and developers join sector's planning charge campaign
The CBI and housebuilders have joined social housing's campaign to urge the government to drop its proposal for an optional planning charge.
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Northern business plans in peril as tenants snap up homes
Annual right to buy sales double to 24,000 in three Northern regions
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Archive TitlesInstallers urged to get building site safety card
A Fire and Security Systems card for work on construction sites has been agreed by leading industry bodies.
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Wellcome Trust may be Britain's first REIT
Medical charity the Wellcome Trust could become the first residential property owner in Britain to form a real estate investment trust.
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More electric blues
Not more rules and regs, you may moan ... but this one could save you from a future behind bars
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Reap the benefits
By the end of 2005 a total of 750,000 small to medium sized businesses will be relying on broadband communication. Here Chris Carter Brennan of WebWayOne explains how installers can reap the benefits from this take-up …
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SEERA supports Barker
The South-east England Regional Assembly has, in fact, taken a positive overall view of the interim Barker Report (“SEERA slates ‘politically unwise’ Barker review growth targets”, 6 February, page 14). As one of some 10 points we made, we did question the basis and value of the levels of housebuilding ...
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Bring back joined-up planning laws
A century ago, planners and housing providers were knit together by joint laws. Today, planners have no duty to care about housing need. This must change
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Audit survey contributors needed
The Housing Corporation has commissioned RSM Robson Rhodes to research what makes an effective audit committee that really adds value to the governance of a housing association. The guidance should be published this autumn. We’re looking for examples of good practice from within and outside the sector. Could any chairs, ...
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Glasgow Housing Association faces court challenges by evicted tenants
Glasgow Housing Association is facing a spate of legal challenges from tenants it may have evicted unlawfully.
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Midlands and South-west launch rival growth area
'Heart of Opportunity' will forge links between regions to counter pull of the South-east
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BSIA calls for apprentice nominations
The BSIA is inviting nominations from electronic security companies and colleges for its 2004 Apprentice Security Systems Installer Awards, which are being sponsored for the second year running by Jobcentre Plus.
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GardTec appoints an export expert
Graham Bolton has been appointed to the newly created role of Export Director at UK intruder alarm equipment specialist, GardTec Ltd, and has been tasked with overhauling all aspects of the company's export business.
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Macclesfield anti-transfer lobby steps up campaign
Opponents of stock transfer in Macclesfield have formed a lobbying group to boost their campaign, writes Mark Lupton.
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The answer's still no
Nothing seems to have united housebuilders and housing associations more in recent years than their opposition to the 11th-hour proposal in the planning bill to give developers the option of paying a tariff rather than negotiating a section 106 agreement.
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Archive TitlesAre tariffs the answer?
Two years after abandoning the idea of planning tariffs, the government is again mooting it as the way to revive the sluggish system. Elaine Knutt asks councils, RSLs and developers if it will work