All Archive Titles articles – Page 978
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Best practice requires integration
Construction firms and architects that are not receptive to collaborative working and make no effort to assemble fully integrated project teams are failing to deliver best practice.
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Carbon Trust links up with Bath
The Carbon Trust has announced a major energy efficiency partnership with the University of Bath.
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Second round of UK wind farms announced
Renewables industry receives timely boost as the government announces proposals for the world's largest offshore power generation projects.
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Appointments
Security Management Today keeps you up-to-date with all the latest people moves in the security sector
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Supermarket sweeping
Trevor Phillips thinks "banal" conversations at supermarkets could lead to social cohesion (18 July, page 10). Presumably he believes that if there had been more conversations, the riots in Northern towns would never have happened. He obviously has never heard of Northern Ireland.Phillips does not tell us if such conversations ...
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What the papers say
Housing associations are increasingly finding their organisations cast in the role of villain. "Billions are squandered in Prescott homes farce," screamed one headline in the Daily Mail last Thursday. It was referring to the Public Accounts Committee report, which claimed that the government's transfer policy was bad value for money ...
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Northern sky
Northern sky: London Eye architect Marks Barfield has been scouring the North for a site for its futuristic Skyhouse development. The three towers, up to 50 storeys high, would house key workers in an update of the 1960s high rise. The scheme was designed for the South-east but Marks Barfield ...
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Archive TitlesOut of mine
OUT OF MINE: Property consultant NAI Fuller Peiser has published its masterplan for this 295 ha lakeside community on the site of a former colliery in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The project, built on behalf of UK Coal Mining, will have about 3500 homes. It is not yet known what proportion ...
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Middlesbrough shelves stock transfer plan
Middlesbrough council has postponed its plan for stock transfer after concerns arose about the financial viability of the proposal.
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Archive TitlesMallon a mission
Ray Mallon used to be a copper; now he's mayor of Middlesbrough and overseeing a radical regeneration drive that focuses almost entirely on cutting crime. Mark Beveridge asked him to explain himself.
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Less is more
In the first of a new series of antisocial behaviour case studies, Adam Greenwood looks at how neglecting the 'less serious' cases, such as noise nuisance, can mean more time is spent on them in the long run
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I won't miss you when you're gone
I was underwhelmed by Darshan Singh Matharoo's letter on the benefits of Chartered Institute of Housing membership (Letters, 25 July, page 20). It was hardly the most dynamic of defences. For me, the benefit of membership is ascertained by this simple test: would I miss it if I didn't have ...
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Archive TitlesQuick getaway
Rehousing victims of crime to encourage them to speak out in court can be a slow and frustrating business. Katie Puckett reports on the national launch of a scheme that offers witnesses a place of safety within days
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Archive TitlesOur grey future
We all know that Britain's population is getting older. But does anyone know where the 14.8 million pensioners expected in 2031 are going to live? In the first of a two-part series, Elaine Knutt reports on the struggle faced by social landlords trying to plan ahead.
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Follow the paper trail
The DTI's gone consultation-crazy. It wants your views on consulting staff, age discrimination and dispute resolution
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Treasury to probe RSL efficiency
Government may demand lower costs and better use of assets as spending squeeze begins
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Working party to ditch PSA Plus proposals
An influential working party looking at reforms to the financing of stock transfer is to ditch government proposals it was mandated to consider.
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Evicted from Diego Garcia
Did I detect the swallowing of government misinformation in last week's Housing Today (page 10)? The 5000 inhabitants of Diego Garcia were not "evacuated" from their island, but were subject to a compulsory and illegal eviction. This was one of the most callous and racist events in modern British history, ...