All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 640
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James Butcher makes eight redundant to help save 75m
Eight employees at James Butcher Housing Association’s head office have been made redundant as part of a review of operating costs.
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Accord agrees £60m loan for BME housing in the Midlands
Deal includes £10m unsecured facility in bid for corporation partner status
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Scottish executive sets up £6m fund to buy social housing sites
Partnership with Highland council will build 500 homes a year to replace right to buy losses
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Westminster faces questions over Porter 6m
Westminster council has rebuffed questions about the whereabouts of £6m set aside for housing from its settlement with former leader Dame Shirley Porter over the long-running “homes for votes” scandal.
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What the 50 most influential people in regeneration really think about the government, its policies and each other (RDAs may want to look away now )
The six promises with which Tony Blair launched the Labour party’s unofficial general election campaign may have sounded strangely familiar to anyone who has ever signed up to the “high level objectives” of a regeneration scheme.
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Richmond council trumpets 50% drop in homelessness
Richmond council HAS reported a 50% cut in homelessness in the past five years
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Who looks out for you?
When it comes to antisocial behaviour, you need full back-up at work
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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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NHF appoints David Orr as chief executive
The National Housing Federation has appointed David Orr, currently chief executive of the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, its new chief executive.
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Not your territory
In your article entitled Battle Grounds, Vicky Ford, the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Birmingham Northfield, was holding forth about Northfield as an area covered by the government’s Urban Living housing renewal pathfinder for Birmingham and Sandwell.
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Tell us what you want
The Commission on London Governance is undertaking a major review of London’s political structures.
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The wrong Romans
Atul Patel has got his Roman emperors mixed up (HT 11 February, page 20).
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Archive TitlesPathfinder
Everyone agrees that if you are running a major regeneration programme, you need to consult the people who are affected. And that’s exactly what the Oldham-Rochdale market renewal pathfinder did. So how come the locals feel so alienated and angry?
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Opportunity NOMS
The launch of another Home Office acronym – one that sounds suspiciously like the much-derided NASS – will fill many in the sector with a sense of dread. However, NOMS – the National Offenders Management Service as opposed to the National Asylum Support Service – has the potential to be ...
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A silly missss-stake
I was surprised to see the headline on your leader in last week’s publication (“Wanted: chief snake-herder”, page 5).
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Very short-sited indeed
In a recent press release, Philip Hammond, Conservative shadow minister for local government affairs, has said regarding Traveller sites: “Time and again, local communities have been left powerless to act.
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Archive TitlesHome tweet home
I was interested to note your short mention of the “housing crisis” with which birds in the UK are afflicted in last week’s publication – and how the British Trust for Ornithology is encouraging people to provide first-time homes for fledglings (Social Animal, page 21).
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Plymouth ho
This scheme is at the heart of plans to regenerate Devonport, a district near Plymouth’s dockyard. The £7m Cannon Cornwall Street project includes 46 rented and 18 shared-ownership units for Devon & Cornwall Housing Association. Funded by the South-west regional development agency, the Housing Corporation and Plymouth council, the development’s ...