All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 718
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School plans threaten social h
Family and Guinness housing associations have called for guarantees from Manchester council to protect their tenants after plans were announced to demolish more than 40 social housing properties.
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Paint the town green
Among 50 young people who brightened up their area with a mural depicting their feelings about living on on the Ernesford Grange Estate in Coventry were Alicia Pollard (8) and Lucy Wyatt (7).
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Green light
London mayor Ken Livingstone has given the go-ahead for a £3.5bn Stratford City development in east London
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Who got that job?
Eleanor Snow meets Christopher Malone, the first point of contact for Crawley’s homeless
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Where do we go from here?
What are the legal implications of the Housing Corporation’s new index, regulation for private developers and the ODPM decision on Euro procurement?
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South-east towns to get the pathfinder treatment
Regional development agency in talks about adopting schemes successful elsewhere in UK
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Regeneration ‘gap-funding’ plan for London
London councils are considering proposals by the London Regional Housing Board to provide ‘gap-funding’ for regeneration projects that will help meet the decent home standard.
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Three into four wont go
Transfer, ALMOs, PFI … and what? Chloe Stothart analyses the council stock options review
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...and here’s our excuse
Newlon Housing Trust would like to say sorry to John Walsh (who visited us in a wheelchair in September) and to anyone else who has had difficulty getting into our head office in Hoxton Street in the past
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Archive TitlesThe quirk ethic
Barry Quirk is the new ‘efficiency czar’, picked to spearhead the campaign for streamlining local government. But, as a council chief executive himself, whose side is he really on?
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Turn up, tune in... kick ’em out
Pirate radio isn’t a harmless world of rebels and underground culture: it damages property, chokes the signals used by emergency services, interferes with television pictures and its operators are violent. Roxane McMeeken spoke to the people on the front line of the battle for the airwaves. Illustration by Paul Willoughby
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Successful pilot paves way for more use of credit unions
Credit unions have slashed loan non-repayment rates in a pilot project that has raised hopes such unions could be used more widely
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Study says half of councils think homelessness strategies useless
Only half of local authorities believe their homelessness strategy will be effective in the future, a recent report from the Local Government Association has found
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Continuity counts
Alun Hughes of Wirral Methodist Housing Association rightly applauds the 40 years’ service of board member Constance Harvey (1 October, page 24).
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Councils voice confusion over fourth funding option muddle
Uncertainty over how to proceed with options appraisal as spectre of review looms
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How To... organise a community
Lynn Charman tells Kate Freeman how locals helped to tidy up a problem city estate
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Clear as mud
Normally by this time of the year, in the immediate aftermath of the three main political party conferences, the dust would have begun to settle and definite policies would begin to emerge from the gloom.
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Cooperate to cut costs, Circle
The chief executive of a major housing association has denounced the Housing Corporation’s “operating cost index” as misleading and called for housing associations to cooperate more to meet efficiency targets.
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Hard cash
Charity money boxes that police in South Yorkshire had been poised to hand out to children so they could do some fund-raising have had to be withdrawn – for being too phallic-looking. But the suggestive shaping doesn’t seem to have hindered their popularity at Irwell Valley Housing Association. According to ...
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Bromford eyes major role in Telford scheme
Bromford Housing Group has announced that it will bid for a major role in the English Partnerships-led urban extension project at Lawley, Telford.