All Archive Titles articles – Page 957
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Archive TitlesPublic speaker
In a speech on Tuesday at the TUC annual conference, chancellor Gordon Brown ruled out scaling back the use of private companies – including transfer housing associations – to help deliver the government's public-sector targets.Meanwhile Dave Prentis, general secretary of public sector union Unison, warned that the government ...
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Archive TitlesA woman's place
London needs more specialist housing for vulnerable women but the money's not there. We look at three projects that show why such schemes deserve funding
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Archive TitlesTube map
A homeless London man is exhibiting his photographs of the capital's 321 underground and railway stations, including this picture of Liverpool Street station. John Colley, who lives in a hostel run by homelessness charity St Mungo's, is showing the pictures at the Bread and Roses pub in Clapham, ...
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What is a … strategic relations manager?
We meet the Egan-inspired professionals in charge of healing rifts
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A taste of its own medicine
The Housing Corporation review is more than an opportunity for a quick laugh at the regulator's expense. It's a chance for the government to look at the way it works with the corporation and for RSLs to say what they want from it.
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Archive TitlesNew Greenwich
Plans for the £50m transformation of a south-east London estate have been submitted for planning approval. If they win approval, 500 new homes – 250 of them social – a park and shops will be built on the New Haddo estate in Greenwich.Architect Stock Woolstencroft has designed the scheme for ...
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Archive TitlesGold Standard
Notting Hill Housing Group has increased its bank loans by £112m. The loans will part-fund new projects that also have approved development programme cash, such as this low-energy regeneration scheme at Gold Lane in Edgware, north London.The scheme, which won a 2002 Housing Design Award, will transform 45 ...
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Archive Titles'This is going to be the most serious thing to hit social housing in years'
Asbestos is a deadly substance – and it's about to get even more difficult to handle. We report on the new rules that will cost the sector £50m in the next six years and could scupper your chance of hitting the decent homes standard
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Archive TitlesThoroughly modern giving
The Home Office's backing for proposals to modernise charity law mean we will soon see a new legal form – the charitable incorporated organisation
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No more planning gain work for Peabody Trust
UK's leading developing association to focus on schemes where it has more control
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Archive TitlesLondon & Quadrant joins sector rush for more flexible loans
London & Quadrant has become the latest housing association to use an innovative finance product that allows it to change lenders and negotiate lower costs more easily.
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Archive TitlesPlaying the field
Maturing heart-throb George Best has been spotted moving his belongings into a council house. It's unlikely the former Manchester United star managed to jump the waiting list for houses as easily he did the one for liver transplants, though.Rumour has it that Best – off the wagon and out of ...
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Archive TitlesHappy Families
These women are tenants of Subira, part of Ekaya Housing Association. Subira provides six homes to mothers aged 16-25 in Wandsworth, south-west London. It is among projects featured in A Woman's Space, a London Housing Federation report on the work of specialist women's housing groups. For more details, see ...
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The cost of supporting people
I completely support the points made by Tony Lightfoot in his letter last week (5 September, page 20).
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Community court pilot to be in Liverpool
A USA-style community court is to be tried out in north Liverpool, home secretary David Blunkett announced on Wednesday.
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Archive TitlesCorporation hires two for Communities Plan
The Housing Corporation has created two jobs to bolster its efforts to deliver the Communities Plan.
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Archive TitlesPrime Focus chief to go for top job at NHF
Richard Clark enters running to replace McCarthy as Deborah Shackleton pulls out
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Cumbria hails boost for rural homes
Cumbria county council has welcomed moves to free up rural land for affordable homes.