All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 647
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Pathfinder boss: we cant get the staff
The growth in regeneration schemes is stretching the ability of councils and consultants to cope, a key player in the market renewal initiative has claimed.
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Stage set for new NHF boss to come from outside housing sector
The National Housing Federation is to interview candidates to replace chief executive Jim Coulter next week at its headquarters in London
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Welsh council could borrow money to upgrade stock
Carmarthenshire able to save money from housing revenue to help repay £60m loan
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Rent delays deter landlords from building homes for BME groups
Housing associations that serve black and minority-ethnic communities have said they will not be able to build the larger homes needed by their tenants unless the ODPM brings forward changes to the rent restructuring regime.
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‘Vote for us, not transfer,’ Blackpool council tells tenants
Labour-controlled authority says it can afford the £9.4m needed to meet decent homes
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You've been warned
St Pancras & Humanist Housing Association is getting tough with tenants who fail to arrange an annual gas inspection by placing emergency hazard tape across their front doors with a notice telling them and their neighbours that their home is a potential hazard. St Pancras’ planned maintenance gas administrator, Debo ...
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Bam-Boo!
Landscape architecture students from Manchester Metropolitan University designed two green spaces that were unveiled on Monday outside Manchester town hall. At the ceremony, from left to right, were councillor Richard Leese, leader of Manchester council; Louise Casey, director of the Antisocial Behaviour Unit; councillor Paul Murphy, executive member for direct ...
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Bids for latest-round PFI top available pot
The latest round of applications for housing private finance initiatives in 2005/6 will exceed the total cash made available by the ODPM.
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Audit Commission seeks efficiency ideas
The Audit Commission has launched a project to identify management and maintenance savings.
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Audit Commission: pathfinders must try harder
The government’s housing market renewal pathfinders must “raise their game” if they are to create communities that people want to live in, an Audit Commission report has said.
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Brighton halts consultation amid disarray
The future of Brighton & Hove council’s housing stock took another twist this week as the council’s new cabinet member for housing said there would be no more tenant consultation.
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Join us in the fight against crime, Clarke orders housing professionals
The Home secretary has urged housing professionals to take responsibility for tackling antisocial behaviour
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Kings Cross homes saved after go-ahead for ticket hall
Thousands of new homes planned as part of the redevelopment of King’s Cross station and London’s Olympic bid have been saved after a last-minute intervention by transport minister Tony McNulty
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RSLs up in arms after Treasury snub on financial inclusion taskforce
Housing Associations have protested to the Treasury at their exclusion from its £120m financial inclusion taskforce
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We really need to talk about this
Changes to the law mean companies will soon be legally bound to inform or consult with staff if requested by them to do so. But what will this mean for your organisation?
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Londons 50% affordable homes
The London mayor’s target of making 50% of homes on each development affordable could be preventing 8 million ft2 of empty office space from being developed into 12,000 new homes.
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Welsh supported housing set to pay price for 3m budget error
Hostels and refuges may close, as cuts follow closely on slashed Supporting People funding
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ODPM plots ‘slimmed down’ section 106
Civil servants manoeuvre to introduce Barker proposals for planning gain supplement