All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 646
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Archive TitlesOn the move
Caroline SchofieldDane Housing has hired Caroline Schofield for the new role of tenancy support officer. She was previously a project worker at Adullam Homes. Bromford Housing Group Donna Loftus, Madalene Buchanan, Vicky Fleming and Brendan O’Malley have been appointed customer service advisers at Bromford Housing Group.Jillie SmithiesJillie Smithies is ...
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Archive TitlesOfficers of the law
When housing officers at Charter Housing Association realised they had a problem with antisocial behaviour, they took the law into their own hands. Rather than rack up legal fees hiring solicitors, they did the job themselves. By Ben Cook. Photographs Julian Anderson
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Put the kettle on
This 45-apartment extra care facility in Kettlethorpe, in Wakefield in West Yorkshire, is part of a new development that also features 55 affordable houses. Smith Smalley Architects designed the project and was appointed by Yorkshire Housing, which is developing the scheme in partnership with Wakefield council. The development is awaiting ...
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Your job and the law
Many housing associations are having to restructure or reorganise as they form or join a group structure, merge or grow through TUPE transfers.
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Archive TitlesYour turn in the hot seat?
Public speaking is nerve-racking. But don’t sweat it, just do some prep
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Shaftesbury hires new troubleshooter
Troubled Shaftesbury Housing Group has appointed a new chief executive in its efforts to be freed from Housing Corporation supervision.
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Gypsy queen
This photograph of Sarah Jones, taken by Lucy Smith, is part of an exhibition featuring artworks by Gypsy children from Bromley, south London. The show opened last Thursday at the Bromley Museum and runs for one month. It is the result of a project run by registered social landlord Novas ...
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Archive TitlesHopes and fears
Two years into John Prescott’s 15-year Communities Plan, Housing Today returns to three areas it visited in 2003 to find out what progress has been made so far – and what the setbacks have been.
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Last-minute planning rush expected as fees soar
Developers ‘going like the clappers’ to process applications before 400% rise
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Archive TitlesDIY litigation will end in tears
As a specialist social housing lawyer acting for a large number of RSLs across the South-east, it would, perhaps, be a little unsurprising if I were to be unconcerned by the Home Office’s plans to replace antisocial behaviour lawyers with housing staff.
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Degrees in engineering
It is pleasing to see that the government has identified the need to ensure that communities are diverse.
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Double your rates, report tell credit unions
Low-income earners should pay higher interest rates when borrowing from credit unions, according to a controversial report published this month.
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Housing Corporation urges economies of scale in off-site manufacturing
The Housing Corporation is to encourage housing associations to cut back on the number of off-site manufacturing systems they use
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Social Homebuy is a con trick
Shared ownership or, called by another name “Social Homebuy”, is an idea that is becoming more and more popular, and many see it as a way for first-time homebuyers to get on to the property ladder without really trying.
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Community gateway will fall by wayside without funding
The Chartered Institute of Housing is calling on the government to guarantee that funds are available to councils wanting to transfer their housing stock to community gateway associations.
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We ignore the plight of white communities at our peril
As election campaigning gathers pace, immigration is high on the political agenda and grabbing the headlines.
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Homelessness rockets in former coal-mining towns
Regeneration and rising house prices lead to increase in number of homeless families
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Wanted: chief snake-herder
Jim Coulter, the outgoing chief executive of the National Housing Federation, has been heard in more frustrated moments to refer to his job as “like herding snakes into a bag”.
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Route canal
Metropolitan Housing Trust is set to begin this £65m redevelopment of a Leicester bus depot. The development will include 731 flats, of which about 50% will be affordable.The 8.5-acre site is next to the Grand Union Canal and the River Soar. Plans include water-based recreation facilities.The project form part of ...