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Archive TitlesBirthday party
Birthday party: Liz Sherwood, project manager for Camden council’s renewals team, and Peter Matthew, divisional manager of the ODPM’s liveable and sustainable communities division, join Catherine Andrews and Robin Mabey of Groundwork Camden & Islington (left to right) for a tour of the Denton Estate in north London to celebrate ...
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Scheme to get refugees onto benefits to go nationwide
The government is to go nationwide with a scheme that aims to speed up the transition of successful asylum seekers into the mainstream benefits system.
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Archive TitlesIt's easy being green
It takes just a few changes to make new and existing homes environment-friendly – and one Wiltshire RSL is showing the way..
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New plan for Woodberry Down ‘barmy’
Tenants in Hackney have branded the council’s new plan for the regeneration of the 2000-home Woodberry Down Estate as “unworkable” and “plain barmy”.
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SEERA slates 'politically unwise' Barker review growth targets
Regional assembly's letter says interim report grossly overestimates UK housing need
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From baked beans to social housing
Retail co-operatives could teach housing associations a thing or two about good governance and why employees should be welcomed as members
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Archive TitlesPeter Redman back in business as FCH managing director
Peter Redman has been appointed interim managing director of Birmingham-based landlord FCH Housing & Care, less than three months after he resigned from one of London's largest registered social landlords.
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Don’t ask me to pay more for police
So Michael Shwartz would pay extra for more local police (Letters, 30 January, page 21)? Good for him. The police in London are crassly incompetent and hugely expensive. They catch less than 8% of all criminals and spend 60% of their time form-filling. What I want is more efficient policing ...
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Places for People hopes for end to supervision by April
New chairman and non-executive directors should be in place within three months
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Scottish decency standard to cover all homes
Scottish housing providers have been given 11 years to meet the country's new decent homes standard.
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Archive TitlesLords has 'appetite for a fight' against planning tariffs
proposals to overhaul the planning system look set to be scuppered in the House of Lords, after regeneration minister Lord Jeff Rooker admitted he did not know how the supply of affordable housing would be protected.
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RIBA calls on clients to pay competition costs after Newham rejects winning design
Councils and housing associations would have to pay architects' costs in design competitions under a radical code of conduct being drawn up by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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Barnet threatens landlord after contract competition row
Barnet Council has threatened to report a registered social landlord to the Housing Corporation, alleging that it refused to accept losing a competition to regenerate an estate.
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… as Prescott backs use of tax in affordable homes project
The deputy prime minister has raised the possibility of using cash raised from extra council tax on second homes to fund an affordable homeownership scheme in the Yorkshire Dales.
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Adjudication ... made simple
Mark London explains what it is and what you should do if you're threatened with it
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Warm Front scheme comes under fire from Public Accounts Committee
One of the Communities Plan's objectives came under fire this week in a report from an influential group of MPs.
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Let's have a debate about the code
I thank the Rt Rev David Walker for expressing his views on the revised National Housing Federation code of governance ("Experience is golden", 30 January, page 21) so publicly. I hope they will act as a catalyst for a full and frank debate.The consultation document takes account of the deliberations ...
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GHA 'may have unlawfully evicted up to 69 tenants'
Mistake has already allowed one tenant to challenge eviction by Glasgow Housing Association
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Revalued homes help social landlord borrow extra £5m
A housing association has extended its borrowing by £5m without extra security.