All Archive Titles articles – Page 941
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Lion's share of pathfinder pot goes to Manchester Salford
The government has awarded the Manchester Salford market renewal pathfinder £125m to tackle low demand in the cities.
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Archive Titles'There's far too much regulation'
Audit Commission chair James Strachan plans to overhaul the way the watchdog inspects housing. Mark Beveridge meets the man who wants to rein in regulation, ease off on targets and reward the best performers
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Woodberry Down is go
The article "Hackney drops £440m Woodberry Down scheme" (3 October, page 12) implies that Hackney council is abandoning the Woodberry Down regeneration scheme. This was misleading and could have caused unecessary alarm.Hackney Council is 100% committed to the regeneration of the Woodberry Down estate. The sale of the disused school ...
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How seriously can we take the prophets of doom?
For the past six months, I have been ploughing through the Old Testament book of Jeremiah, the prophet who told the Israelites repeatedly that they were terrible sinners and that exile beckoned unless they repented. Every chapter offers the same message, although a different analogy is used to emphasise the ...
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Staff to pay more to cover pension fund shortfall
Employee contributions rise 1.1% to help plug £117m gap in Social Housing Pension Scheme
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Countdown to zero
Countdown to zero: The Housing Corporation has thrown its weight behind an adapted version of the BedZed home design. Architect Bill Dunster has spent two years adapting his acclaimed zero-energy development – built for the Peabody Trust in Beddington, south London – for use on a larger scale, and is ...
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Redland under Corporation supervision
Redland Housing Association has been placed under Housing Corporation supervision because of concerns over "governance and management".
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Peterborough confident of tenants' thumbs-up in record transfer vote
The east of England's biggest-ever stock transfer is set to go to ballot next month and looks set to be very close-run.
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Conduct unbecoming
The very public row in the boardroom of Places for People is, as some commentators have remarked, bringing the sector into disrepute. But it could also be doing it a service.
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ODPM proposes swingeing reforms to councils' pay and conditions
The long-running battle between councils and their staff is set to come to a head with the publication of government proposals for dramatic reforms to local government pay and working practices.
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Comment
The Places for People rumpus can teach us some valuable lessons, but aping the private sector is not one of them.
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Archive TitlesDonny's comeback
Doncaster council has had its share of woes, from Donnygate to a no-star repairs rating, but now it's sorting itself out. In the second part of her series on maintenance.
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Housebuilders split over change to planning gain funding rules
Controversy over plan to reserve cash for projects that involve associations from the start
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Archive TitlesNew NHF chair ready for spending 'dogfight'
The new chair of the National Housing Federation has warned that the sector faces a "dogfight" over funding ahead of the 2006 government spending review.
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Corporation figures cast doubt on RSLs' cost effectiveness
Repairs and maintenance costs escalate under weight of new initiatives
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Supported housing or residential care?
R-B v Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust
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Call to ease charities' insurance crisis
The government should set up an insurance scheme for charities struggling to pay rocketing premiums, a consultant for the Home Office has said.
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Archive TitlesTories threaten to undo Prescott's restrictions to the right to buy
The Conservatives have announced plans to reverse John Prescott's controversial move to restrict right-to-buy discounts in some South-east councils.
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Archive TitlesKicking their butts
Landlords are encouraging staff to quit smoking by offering £100 inducements. High-minded altruism or unwanted intrusion into their private lives, asks William Wiles (trying to give up).