All Archive Titles articles – Page 936
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we don't deserve a bad image
I agree with most of your editorial on governance ("Conduct unbecoming", 10 October, page 5). Comments like those of Richard Kemp (10 October, page 17) should be taken seriously as they are the perception, but the reality is often different. Keynote has recently openly recruited six very experienced people to ...
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Landlords to escape legal duty to deal with bad neighbours
Law Commission recommends toothless law to prevent excessive litigation
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Two appointed to board of UK's largest association
A leadership specialist and the chief executive of the Anchor Trust have been appointed to the board of troubled housing association Places for People.
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Archive TitlesAnchor, Metropolitan, Northern Counties and Places for People to pay boards
four of the UK's 20 biggest registered social landlords plan to pay their board members and another is running a pilot scheme.
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Archive TitlesSunderland Housing Group offers aid to struggling North-eastern councils
Sunderland Housing Group is to help struggling North-eastern councils to improve their housing services.
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Archive TitlesMore experts join editorial advisory board
Eight key figures have joined Housing Today's editorial advisory board. They are:Keith Jackson, head of housing policy at the Treasury. He is responsible for housing market issues and for the department's interests in ODPM's housing policy and programme deliveryRichard McCarthy, the ODPM's new director general of sustainable communities. The former ...
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Tony Shoults on how Metropolitan Housing became more transparent and accountable
We felt we were just getting too complicated. We had incorporated Rushcliffe Homes and Refugee Housing Association, and the three regional divisions also had committees. We thought the MHT board should be taking strategic decisions for the group.So we got replaced the three regional committees with direct links between the ...
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ODPM probes Supporting People as it gives extra £400m
Investigation into why support service costs vary by up to 1200% between councils
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Regional strategies signed off as bidding opens for £3.3bn
Three strategies altered to put more emphasis on key worker homes
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2nd opinion: The fine art of involvement
Mark Burns on getting the most out of tenant reps
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Archive TitlesFirst BME transfers get green light after 10 months of delays
Plans for four pilot stock transfers involving black and minority-ethnic housing associations are finally set for ODPM approval after months of delay.
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Government to probe Supporting People costs as it hands over an extra £400m
ODPM investigates why support service costs vary by up to 13 times between councils
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School for scandal
School for scandal: A row has broken out after the deputy prime minister turned down an application to build 215 houses, including 65 affordable homes, in Bishop's Stortford (pictured).The development's designer, S&P Architects, said the plan for the former John Dyde Training College in the Essex town went along exactly ...
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Archive TitlesSaving private properties
It's not just social housing that must meet the decent homes standard: councils have to make sure private homes in their area are up to scratch too. Many have failed to come to terms with the new responsibilities.
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Archive TitlesPlaces for People put under supervision
Chairman hits back at critics as Corporation acts on governance troubles at top association
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Archive TitlesNew order
Home Housing Association wasn't satisfied with government guidelines on repairs, so it tore up the rulebook. In the final part of her series on maintenance, Katie Puckett reports on Home's radical approach.
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Archive TitlesMonitoring performance
Monitors include LCD and flat screen models, colour and mono ...