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Archive TitlesBench Test 2: Nailing the analogue coffin
DX-NT400 digital video recorderPioneering Mitsubishi continues to innovate
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Archive TitlesGSL supplies 100 cameras to 'best designed' office
Accountancy software leaders, Sage, are to have one of the best designed and equipped office complexes in the UK at its Newcastle Great Park offices thanks to the combined expertise of leading contractors and a choice of one of the most advanced systems around.
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Archive TitlesBenchtest 1: Needle sharp
Concept Pro VCP501 colour camera from VideconIntegrated one-box model made us take notice!
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Owner-preoccupation
When the homeownership taskforce was launched in February its goal was to find ways to allow Labour to remain the party of homeownership without eroding the low-cost housing base. The taskforce's report (page 11) makes a good stab at reconciling these two demands: it recommends restricting the right to buy ...
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Uproar over proposal to ringfence sales receipts
RSLs resist low-cost homeownership group's proposal that would stop cross-subsidy
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MIx it up
MIx it up: This week, the foundations were finally laid at this long-delayed mixed-use development in Swiss Cottage, London.Funded with £2.5m of Housing Corporation grant, it will result in Acton Housing Association and Ujima Housing Association delivering 42 affordable homes plus a leisure centre, a doctors’ surgery and 128 luxury ...
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A manufacturer replies
With regard to the recent reviews of the Housing Corporation's layout templates, did anyone bother to talk to the manufacturers? Calford Seaden's brief from Space4 included integration with and adaptation of selected dwelling types in the Westbury private sector range. We worked closely with Space4 to understand the manufacturing, assembly ...
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North by North-east London
North by North-east London: One of Southern Housing’s most striking projects this year was its redevelopment of Gainsborough Studios in London. The site of the studios, where Alfred Hitchcock made a number of films, is now home to 32 flats for shared ownership. The development includes a canal and sculpture ...
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Do you know if your staff are stressed?
If an employee brings a claim against you for work-related stress, you may have to demonstrate that you tried to deal with the problem even if you weren't told about it.
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Archive TitlesReal-life heroines
All over the country, tenant activists are transforming neglected and crime-ridden estates. Saba Salman met five women who are leading the way.
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Here's an idea
An internet radio project helps young gay people build their self-esteem
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Sheltered housing is great value
The Emerging Role of Sheltered Housing consortium and the Centre for Sheltered Housing Studies welcome the government's announcement of an independent review of Supporting People costs (24 October, page 15). We anticipate that support services for older people will be deemed extremely good value for money.The comparative costs for different ...
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What women want – and how housing could give it to them
Housebuilding was never mentioned as a potential job by my teachers. In fact, largely because I went to a girls' private boarding school, no jobs were suggested that didn't involve good deportment.
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How to … get more women working in repairs
Katie Puckett reports on apprenticeships that fill skills gaps and lower unemployment
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A force to be reckoned with
Politicians, chief executives, civil servants and think tank brainiacs – the 40 women you'll meet over the next 12 pages are some of the most important people in housing. We got them together and asked them about life at the top, how they got there and what advice they'd give ...
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Archive TitlesHappy families
Happy families: This design by Piercy Conner architects has been shortlisted for the Brookes Road estate in Newham, east London.The scheme is part of the New Deal for Communities regeneration programme in association with Community Housing Association.It includes 176 homes, all of which are social housing.
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Archive TitlesWest Midlands housing groups told: work together or you'll fail
Industry stalwarts stress need for coherent approach at Housing Today meeting
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Some are still more equal than others
Three decades of equal opportunities law has failed to guarantee fair treatment for women in the workplace. Emma Burrows reports on new measures that aim to change this
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Row over new tax rule delays two stock transfers
NHF hits back at plans set to cost sector millions and jeopardise decent homes target