All Archive Titles articles – Page 938
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Rural exceptions: no longer the rule
Proposed changes to planning guidance will abolish the rural exceptions policy. This could deal quite a blow to affordable housing levels in the countryside
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Archive TitlesDouble vision
Double vision: These flats in Hastings were among the 934 homes built by the Hyde Group this year – double its normal annual expectation. A £24.1m grant from the Capital Challenge Fund and £26.4m approved development programme funding were behind the numbers. The group's capital and reserves went up by ...
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Swift solution to football disorder
British Transport Police used Petards' Swift wireless mobile camera system to monitor crowds at the showpiece Community Shield football match between Arsenal and Manchester United at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.
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Archive TitlesDigital mozart
Digital mozart: A website has been launched for a digital arts project on a west London housing estate. Queens Park New Media Centre, on the Mozart estate in west London, offers courses to the local community in a range of subjects including animated web design and music visualisation. The project ...
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Government push on development grant to private firms
Clearest signal yet private developers will get a slice of next year's funding
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Thanet deserves its rating
With regard to David Eden’s letter (“Under siege in Thanet”, 3 October, page 25), the inspection of Thanet District Council’s housing services looked at a number of functions, including homelessness services, leasehold management, estate management, allocations, housing strategy as well as responsive repairs. Overall, the service was rated as fair, ...
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Northern pilot to throw out target culture
Eight northern housing bodies are to participate in a radical pilot project aimed at improving housing service delivery across the country without regard to government targets.
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We’re not like councils
I challenge Richard Kemp’s assertion that housing associations are public bodies that fail in their duty to be open and transparent (Comment, 10 October, page 15). ¶Housing associations are not public bodies. They are independent social businesses, with clear and long-established systems for governance, regulation and accountability. In each of ...
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Not much cop
Re: "Tenants to choose cops to tackle those 'who don't give a damn'" (3 October, page 8). Lower-ranking police officers tend to view antisocial behaviour as a very low priority.Senior officers make promises on the issue but it does not trickle down the chain of command. Tenants are fed up ...
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MPs demand reinstatement of outline planning consent
MPs began this week to challenge government proposals to scrap outline planning consent amid fears that if the move fails, the number of homes built will be restricted.
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Disabled teams operate Herefordshire CCTV scheme
The UK's largest provider of employment opportunities for the disabled, Remploy, has won a contract to monitor the newly upgraded CCTV network covering the town centres of Hereford, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
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Opinion: Can't we just get on with it?
The amount of regulation surrounding Supporting People is getting ridiculous.
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Call to fix house prices in Welsh hotspots
The Welsh Assembly has been told it should intervene to ensure that housing remains affordable for local people in rural house price hotspots.
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Mortgage lenders call for more quality control on prefab homes
The national body for mortgage lenders is calling for homes manufactured off-site to meet three quality standards, in order to satisfy its members they are a safe .
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We save money by group buying
Clare Miller points to the “increasing trend in expenditure on repairs and management” (“Corporation figures cast doubt on RSLs’ cost effectiveness”, 10 October, page 9).¶The solution is simple: joint procurement partnerships with the private sector to allow registered social landlords to take control of the supply process. Since launching last ...
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Car thief nabbed at B&Q
A state-of-the-art digital security management system – operated for the DIY and garden centre retailer B&Q by SSS Management Services – helped ensure the conviction of a serial car thief in South Wales.
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Archive TitlesTraining boost
Mark Openshaw, a former training manager at the Royal Naval Regulating School has joined Video Controls Ltd as training manager.
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BME housing to ‘lose out’ on grant change
Black and minority-ethnic housing associations have claimed that the Housing Corporation’s approach to allocating housing grant will see them excluded from developing new houses.