All Archive Titles articles – Page 898
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Governance
Last year's scandals boil on while reviews of the sector's regulators could mean a fresh batch
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The year at a glance
January5: Deadline for BME associations to bid for cash to help them with rent restructuring12: Launch of Coventry and Teignbridge housing benefit pathfinders15: Olympic masterplanners submit designs for Lower Lea Valley in east LondonResults of the Supporting People reviewGovernment verdict on Crossrail for the Thames GatewayAudit Commission to circulate its ...
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Rosy future
Rosy future: This development, due for completion in March, will bring 445 more affordable homes to Stepney, east London. Designed by John Laing & Partners, it cost £37m to build. It will be run by Circle 33 and Bethnal Green & Victoria Park housing associations.
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We must tackle the vetting system's flaws
The Christmas break should not be allowed to obscure the shocking reality of what was revealed in December.
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Economic forecast
Find out how the property market and the cost of construction will affect your business
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The year of doing things differently
It's all change in 2004. This is the lowdown on new workers' rights and their employers' responsibilities
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Spot the difference
I read with interest your article "Planning charge will give councils the power to set number of affordable homes built" (19 December 2003, page 10).I am a town councillor, a member of the tenants' executive committee that comes under the umbrella of West Wiltshire Housing Society and I am also ...
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… while standardised designs promise economies of scale
The Housing Corporation has teamed up with PRP Architects to introduce off-the-shelf designs for the social housing sector, in a new bid to make off-site manufactured homes cheaper.
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Archive TitlesMcCarthy defends 'tough decisions'
It was almost four years ago today, in a meeting at the Housing Corporation's Maple House headquarters, that Richard McCarthy realised Peabody was going to have to make some tough decisions to get its stock up to the decency standard by 2010.
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Data protection ... made simple
Lately, data law has made the news for all the wrong reasons. Here's how it should work
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Flagship partnership to keep prefab costs down …
A Suffolk-based housing association plans to triple its off-site manufacture programme after developing a groundbreaking partnership that keeps costs down to traditional new-build levels.
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Archive TitlesHonours for chief executives, mandarins – and a gardener
New year's list recognises achievements in housing and civil service
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London calling
Please do not perpetuate the myth that the Peabody Trust’s BedZED scheme is in Surrey (19 December 2003, page 7). It is in Hackbridge in the London borough of Sutton. We should know – we let them have the land on the cheap in recognition of the scheme’s exceptional environmental ...
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Landlords call on government to fight 'onerous' new EU rules
UK may go to European Court of Justice over procurement regulations on major contracts
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Archive TitlesMy first boss
Mike Williams tells Ellen Bennett about a man who taught him to stand firm
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Archive TitlesEP and Milton Keynes council set up new-style planning body
Partnership will oversee development of 70,000 homes despite council's misgivings
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Leeds PFI in danger of missing deadline, says preferred bidder
The housing private finance initiative in Leeds is in danger of missing the March deadline for signing contracts after the preferred bidder accused the council of dragging its feet.
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Battle of the briefs: round three
I write in response to the letter from Jonathan Barrett (12 December 2003, page 20) concerning Jan Luba QC’s “Case of the week” on county court antisocial behaviour orders.The “principal proceedings” to which the ASBO applications were subsequently attached were, in fact, Section 152 Injunction Applications pursuant to the 1996 ...