All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 607
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Voice of youth
Young people got the chance to fire questions at the three main political parties in Swindon last month. The event, organised by the Swindon Foyer, was called “Why Vote?” and aimed to encourage active citizenship among the foyer’s young residents and to find out how they engage with the issues ...
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Richmonds response
I welcome the debate that Richmond council’s homelessness statistics have started (4 March, page 12). In her letter, published in your 18 March issue on page 24, Anita Tsetselis suggests Richmond should also be addressing under-occupation.
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Plays the thing
This new play area was at the top of a wishlist drawn up by tenants of one of Newbury’s more deprived estates. Now, a £35,000 makeover for the Dickens Walk estate has fulfilled that desire. The facelift of the 1970s estate was carried out by Sovereign Housing Association, Thames Valley ...
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Park and ride
Jamie Baker, 10 (left); Ross Baker, 8; and Connor Patterson, 11 were among the 400 skater boys and girls who headed to Rochester’s new skate park during the recent Easter holidays. MHS Homes opened the park on Laker Road in February to engage with youngsters in Medway.
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Way out
At the risk of being thought sanctimonious, I found your heading I Am the Way trite, irritating and irrelevant (cover, 1 April).
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Archive TitlesSchool's out
A Peak District community has tackled its affordable housing problems by selling a rundown school house on a brownfield site. Three family houses for rent at rates local people can afford are being built on the site in Parwich. Half the purchase price of the site has been given to ...
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Archive TitlesA smart move
Getting a job with your own landlord could turn your life around, says Victoria Madine
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Archive TitlesOn the move
Pam DaishPam Daish (pictured) is now executive services officer at Hundred Houses and responsible for supporting the board and management team. She joins from the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge.Jasone AndoneguiJasone Andonegui has been appointed community regeneration manager of Black Country Housing Group. Originally from Spain, ...
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Archive TitlesLetter of the week
Well said Richard Kemp! The chattering classes have to understand that when we talk about terraced houses, we are not talking the Royal Crescent in Bath or similar in Regent’s Park or even Islington (8 April, page 18).
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Archive TitlesThatcher's legacy
Twenty-five years after the Conservatives gave tenants the right to buy their homes, Labour wants to extend the scheme. But how has it worked out so far? Victoria Madine asks four people whose lives have been changed by the policy.
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Archive TitlesWhere will the paths lead?
The three areas chosen in January to join the nine housing market renewal pathfinders have ambitious plans. But have they been given enough cash to realise them?
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Mind your language
The debate over antisocial behaviour has descended into stereotypes and name-calling, says
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Keyed up
Only key workers need apply for homes at the Wells Farm Heights development in Whyteleafe, Surrey. The first phase of the £22m estate, which will provider 208 one- and two-bedroom homes, will be finished in August this year. Optimum Housing Group will sell 136 of the homes at a discount, ...
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Heres an idea
Pass the cornflakes: breakfast meetings allow staff to talk in a relaxed atmosphere
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Gypsy leader to report Howard for inciting race hate
The head of a national group representing Gypsies is planning to report Conservative leader Michael Howard to the police for inciting racial hatred.
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Tees Valley Regeneration urged to improve governance
Urban regeneration company Tees Valley Regeneration has been advised to improve its system of governance following complaints from a local MP.
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These foolish things
I was surprised by your article by “Tim Blueline” – until I noticed the dateline (1 April, page 13). Extremely “suspect”!George Stapleton, Comment via Housing Today website
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RSLs fear Rover workers ‘may end up homeless’
West Midlands landlords offer tenants debt advice as Longbridge car plant faces closure
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Archive TitlesLeading edge
A housing manager recently asked me how best to plan and implement a programme of change.
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The Dubliners
A £130m project to build 594 homes in Dublin has been announced by developer Durkan Group. The public-private partnership deal comprises 122 homes for rent from South Dublin County Council, 149 homes for rent from Circle Voluntary Housing Assocation, the Irish arm of London-based Circle 33 Housing Group, 120 shared-ownership ...