All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 659
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Home help
A 300-home development, which will provide affordable housing for first-time buyers, was announced by mayor of London Ken Livingstone and the London Development Agency on Tuesday.
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ODPM pilots project to help te
Prescott pledges to halve the 100,000 households in temporary accommodation by 2010
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Archive TitlesLet the lawyers handle it...
I’ve been dealing with antisocial behaviour for years and have seen quite a few changes for the good.
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Wheelchair-friendly Habinteg joins Places for People Group
Wheelchair-friendly housing specialist Habinteg Housing Association is joining the Places for People Group.
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Grains of wisdom
As Broadwater Farm shows, says Christian Wolmar, given the right attention even a problem estate can thrive
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Archive TitlesThe sound and the fury
This week, John Prescott compromised with Labour’s manifesto writers over giving the right to buy to housing association tenants.
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Need to lure staff from private sector may force pay hike
RSLs ‘increasingly turning to industry’ to recruit all levels of finance personnel
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Leading edge
Most of us are so busy running just to stand still at work that we rarely have any time to stand back and have a look at whether we’re really doing things in the most effective way.
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Renting from the private sector is money down the drain
Even as I write, millions of school children are revising for their mock GCSEs and practice SATs papers. In a spirit of helpfulness, I offer the following as diversionary sample questions.
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How to stop customs making a meal of it
No matter what HM Customs and Excise might like you to believe, new dwellings with limited cooking facilities do qualify as self-contained – and for a zero VAT rating
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Wrangle over Hertfordshire greenfield sites goes to High Court
A consortium behind plans for up to 5000 homes in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, has launched a High Court challenge to the council’s decision to delay giving planning permission for the scheme.
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Will it be more than cosmetic?
It’s about time that Newcastle had a facelift and constructed a regeneration template for other regions to emulate (“Newcastle plans to make its West End a ‘housing showcase’”, HT 14 January, page 11).
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Social homebuy could cost corporation millions
Chief executive tries to allay fears of runaway costs with hint that Treasury will help out
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Archive TitlesCorporation signals that top-performing RSLs may be rewarded with five-year funding
The Housing Corporation’s 70 housing association development partners could have their funding increased to cover five as opposed to two years
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Comply with surveillance law, RSLs told
Housing associations carrying out covert surveillance as part of their antisocial behaviour strategies should follow guidelines set out in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 despite not being directly covered by it, law firm Devonshires said this week.
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Childs play
Work has begun on a new children’s centre for south Kilburn in London, which will open next summer.
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Archive TitlesCommunity justice centres
The community justice centre for tackling anti-social behaviour in north Liverpool is the first of its kind. Readers ask two professionals who’ve used it how the government’s one-stop-shops will work
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New scheme gives first-time buyers foothold on property ladder
English Partnerships will use a portfolio of 100 redundant NHS sites to deliver 15,000 homes under the first-time buyers initiative.