All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 619
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Jim Coulter to join board of the Audit Commission
The outgoing chief executive of the National Housing Federation is to join the board of the Audit Commission on 1 April.
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Welsh assembly will move to keep homeless out of B&Bs
The Welsh government is likely to introduce tough new laws to keep more than half of Wales’ homeless people out of bed and breakfast hotels – but there is little funding to help councils implement the change.
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Tax relief change will ramp up cost of building in poor areas
Building homes in poor areas could cost housing associations hundreds of thousands of pounds more after a rule change announced in last Wednesday’s Budget.
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Tories promise more homes in rural areas
The Conservative party has pledged to change planning rules to boost the number of affordable homes in the countryside – but would still open up the right to buy to rural housing association tenants.
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Archive TitlesBroken windows: Guiliani’s ‘zero tolerence’ policy has business applications
Nick Dutton, Sales & Marketing Director of Synseal Extrusions, explains how getting the little things right really counts in business
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Screening must not be diluted in any way
SIR – I write with reference to The Security Watchdog managing director Terry O’Neil’s recent Opinion article in Security Management Today (‘Raising the bar beyond BS 7858’, SMT, December 2004, p11), Securiplan chief executive Phillip Ullmann’s Guarding Watch column (‘Keep screening in Securi-Check’, ...
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Archive TitlesKEB announes purchase of JAG
KEB Fabrications Limited has announced the acquisition of fellow Profile 22 commercial fabricator, JAG Glazing Limited from its owners, the MacDougal family. Based in Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, JAG Glazing has a strong reputation in the Public Sector and a history of cooperation with KEB, including undertaking sub-contract production for the ...
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Corporations toughest critic Andrew Bennett MP to retire
Andrew Bennett MP, chair of the ODPM select committee and outspoken critic of the Housing Corporation, is to retire at the next general election
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Calling all clients: don’t be so Microsoft
SIR – Battening down the hatches. Configuring firewalls, anti-virus software, anti-spam and web content filtering software. Installing security patch after security patch until they're coming out of your ears.
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Archive TitlesWhat’s all this then? RSL to help police with their enquiries
Keystone Housing Association to pilot scheme to let social landlords police tough estates
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Shelter: all parties are failing the homeless
The director of Shelter has criticised the three main political parties for “giving away” taxpayers’ money to promote homeownership in the midst of a growing temporary accommodation crisis.
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BalticPine aligned with loans group
BalticPine, arguably the largest timber conservatory manufacturer in the UK, has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Tony Murtagh through his investment company, West Country Investments.
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Archive TitlesReform aims to increase compliance & prevention: proposed legislation signals a seismic shift in responsibility
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2004 will introduce fundamental change in individual responsibilities for fire safety. Pilkington’s Mike Wood, Chair of the Fire Safety Development Group, looks at the implications of this legislation, which could come into force by the end of 2005
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No details on Homebuy until after election
Details of the government’s plan to let tenants buy a stake in their home will not be published until after the general election, it has emerged.
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Leeds PFI scheme goes ahead after six years of talks
The multimillion-POUND regeneration of a Leeds housing estate is finally set to go ahead after six years of negotiations.
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Archive TitlesEbor restructures to advance
Ebor Equipment, supplier of machinery, tools and consumables for the glass and stone industries since 1981, has undertaken major strategic and organisational changes.
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Archive TitlesCBI chief welcomes clampdown on animal rights activists
CONFEDERATION OF BRITISH Industry (CBI) leader Sir Digby Jones has publicly backed the Government’s proposals to protect firms from campaigns of intimidation orchestrated by animal rights protestors.
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Actions often speak louder than words
SIR – The powers-that-be at Group 4 Securicor should listen to the advice offered by their former immigration director and current British Security Industry Association chief executive David Dickinson (‘Value not price, careers not jobs’, Manned Security Solutions Supplement, SMT, February 2005, pp24-25).
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SIA updates ACS criteria
THE SECURITY INDUSTRY AUTHORITY (SIA) is nearing the conclusion of its formal consultation period with private sector practitioners concerning the Approved Contractor Scheme (ACS). The comments made are now apparently undergoing “detailed consideration and review”.