All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 602
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Archive TitlesAtkins crowned Consultant of the Year at 2005 Building Awards
Multi-disciplinary giant Atkins triumphed as Consultant of the Year at this year’s Building Awards, held on Tuesday night at the Grosvenor House hotel in central London.
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Village strife
Snobs, fragile communities and anti-Traveller prejudice: it’s not easy in the countryside
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Archive TitlesOn the move
Paul BryanFinancial controller Paul Bryan (right), of the Signpost Housing Group, is to be promoted to the post of group finance and ITC director at the Dorset-based group. He has been in his present job since 2000. Susan Hickey Hastoe Housing Association, based in Middlesex, has appointed Susan Hickey as ...
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Letter of the week
For the workers at car maker MG Rover’s Birmingham plant, the fear of looming unemployment is now a reality (15 April, page 7).
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Inside job
Residents of Lewisham in south-east London have transformed the empty shell of a property into their own homes after six weeks’ training and five months on site. London & Quadrant Housing Trust and contractor John Laing organised the Phoenix self-build project, enabling residents to do all the carpentry, tiling and ...
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Nuisance and human rights
Andrews v Reading BCThe main bedroom of Mr Andrews’ house was on the ground floor at the front facing the road. Following a consultation exercise, Reading implemented a new traffic scheme in October 2000. This considerably increased the volume of traffic on that road. Andrews found the additional noise intolerable ...
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Performance index planned for social housing providers
Mooted investment ratings could ‘persuade institutional investors to buy into RSLs’
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Archive TitlesNew gun in town
Interim management’s the name, troubleshooting’s the game, as Victoria Madine explains
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Archive TitlesThe over long goodbye
The white, male 50-year-olds in the top jobs will have to move on before there is real diversity. But how long will this take?
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Archive TitlesFlat force
Residents in Coventry are taking a stand against antisocial behaviour by using their own security team. Whitefriars Housing Group balloted tenants in Falkener House, Foleshill, who voted to adopt the security team scheme last year. The scheme will now be extended to three other city blocks. Response team leader John ...
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Archive TitlesHardly a flash of inspiration
I should point out that local housing allowance is paid directly to tenants and not to private landlords (8 April, page 13).
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On the fast track
If you are going to progress in your career, ensuring that you develop your abilities is essential. And taking responsibility for your personal development is an important principle – you cannot rely on other people to do it for you. So even if your organisation has an excellent training programme ...
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Archive TitlesHeading for a fall
People still talk about the Ronan Point disaster. But too few housing organisations know how to prevent it happening again.
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Archive TitlesFeeling excluded?
Housing likes to think its staff are as diverse as the population it works for. But the results of Housing Today’s census show women and those from BME groups are all but excluded from the top jobs. Over the next 12 pages Kate Freeman, Katie Puckett and Sonia Soltani look ...
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Eggheads
Riverside Housing has given £5000 towards a learning pack for year-one children from Blueberry Park Primary School (pictured) in Dovecot, Liverpool. The pack, called Humpty’s New Wall and produced with the Construction Industry Training Board and Berrybridge Housing, comprises a story book about building a garden wall, which is intended ...
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Sectors election hopefuls take housing to the doorsteps
Housing is set to play a major role in an election campaign for the first time since the introduction of the right to buy, housing professionals who are standing as candidates have claimed.
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Job doctor
Telling people you’re pregnant should be a happy affair. But what if your boss isn’t so keen to hear it?
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Pirate DJ silenced in rooftop radio purge
A pirate radio DJ has been banned from rooftops over four storeys in a case that demonstrates how antisocial behaviour orders can help housing providers to outlaw illegal transmissions.
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Thats not very discriminating
The housing sector does a pretty cracking job of employing black and minority-ethnic staff.