All Archive Titles articles – Page 915
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Archive Titles'I want us to be seen as serious players'
If Lucy de Groot gets her way, 2008 will be a great year for councils. The new head of the Improvement and Development Agency has a five-year plan to boost councils' standing in their communities and in public service as a whole. She shared her ideas with Stuart Macdonald.
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Opinion: Opportunity knocks
A new property tax could help affordable housing, says David Walker, but is the sector willing to push for it?
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Archive TitlesOur plan for inspection
The Audit Commission's new, tougher approach to inspections is shaking up the sector. Now the body wants to take an even more active role in boosting standards – and here, chief inspector Roy Irwin and commissioner Gerard Lemos describe how its three-year strategic plan will deliver better services
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Archive TitlesHowlett takes top job at Peabody
Stephen Howlett, chief executive of Amicus Housing Association, is to be the new chief executive of the Peabody Trust.
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A new hope
I have just read your 21 November issue, and I am writing to tell you how much I enjoyed your piece on tenant activists ("Real-life heroines", page 37). Having grown up on a housing association estate where my elderly father was the constant victim of nuisance behaviour, it was refreshing ...
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Archive TitlesLive-in history
Live-in history: English Heritage is calling for more attention to be paid to old houses, such as this 17th-century timber-framed Newark townhouse restored by Peter Jennison, that give character to the areas we live. The heritage organisation says one in five households live in a pre-1919 property, and that reuse ...
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History repeats itself
The shortlisted design for the Brookes Road estate in east London (21 November, page 7) reminds me of a 1960s council estate in my constituency, Birmingham Selly Oak. It, too, won an award, but today’s illustration would have to include the overflowing rubbish, graffiti and unauthorised car repair businesses. Do ...
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Off the ground
Off the ground: The Peabody Trust is to invest £3m in building 31 flats for shared ownership on a derelict site on the Pembury Estate in east London. The housing association has gained planning permission for the single block, which will be on a derelict site in Hackney. The scheme ...
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Future shock
What is the role of housing associations? We all know that they are independent social businesses and 310 are "in business for neighbourhoods", but how many have narrowed this down to a business plan that secures a long-term future and direction? In retail terms, is your organisation aspiring to be ...
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Quality, not a quick fix
Property ownership is the biggest single asset for most of the families that can afford it. This is why I believe the government's anti-competitive stance towards an unproven method of housing construction is both damaging and unwise.While of course the housing shortage in the South-east is in need of a ...
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Muslims 'excluded from shared-ownership'
Muslims in the South-east are being denied the chance to get on the property ladder because of the Housing Corporation's shared ownership policy.
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Archive TitlesTolerance isn't enough
A new law on religious discrimination hits the statute books next Tuesday. Dilip Kavi and Steve Lorber of BME specialist Asra explain what you will need to do to comply
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Archive TitlesEast Lancashire's last hope
It's the toughest market renewal challenge of them all. One in 10 homes is empty. One in four children leave school with no qualifications. Half the private housing stock is in disrepair. Ellen Bennett asks: can Max Steinberg save the day?
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Job doctor
Want to launch a career in housing and study at the same time? Pete Jeffery can help
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Places for People left off development partner list
Supervision means England's largest RSL will not be among Corporation's favoured few
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Archive TitlesLeave Christmas soup kitchens to us, charities tell do-gooders
Homelessness groups say well-meaning food distribution harms those it aims to help
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Archive TitlesGrab that cash
The European Social Fund is essential to the UK's regeneration, but it won't be around for much longer. Associations should grab the money while they can, says Katie Puckett – with more EU finance reforms on the way, they'll need all they can get.
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Scramble for bids as development grant deadline looms
Housing associations have been scrambling to put together bids for the next round of Housing Corporation social housing grant ahead of the 5 December deadline.
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Devon & Cornwall loan boosts development bid
devon & cornwall association has borrowed £20m to support building work it hopes to do as one of the Housing Corporation's development partners.