All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 759
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Bromford Carinthia borrows £20m to build
One of the West Midlands’ largest registered social landlords has signed the first in a series of loans to finance development.
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2nd opinion: Let the people decide
Barbara Thorndick asks: shouldn’t we let tenants choose whether or not they want a new kitchen?
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Barclays lends £110m to four associations
Barclays has agreed more than £110m of social housing loans.The deals, with Shepherds Bush, Havelok, Thames Valley and Midsummer housing associations, are largely to fund development. Midsummer’s facility includes £75m from Nationwide as well as £35m from Barclays. This will refinance old debt and provide for new build and business ...
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Archive TitlesNottingham tenants say ‘yes’ to ALMO after £200,000 campaign
Nottingham council tenants have voted overwhelmingly in favour of transferring their homes to an arm’s-length management organisation.
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Employers and union agree three-year wage deal for electricians
The ECA, Select and Amicus have struck a deal that will see electricians’ pay rise 14% over three years.
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Archive TitlesYou’re nicked, sunshine
No, not because of that yoghurt you swiped from the office fridge. But you and your employer may be accidentally committing crimes that could land you in jail. Kate Freeman looks at some easy ways to fall foul of the law and how to avoid them.
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Whats missing?
Mike Gaskell’s column on the Audit Commission’s publication Housing – Improving Services through Resident Involvement covered the issues pretty well, but both the column and the report are missing something (9 July, page 36). The word disability appears only once in the 55-page publication. The reference is in a quote ...
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Archive TitlesTeeny kinks
Teeny kinks: The highlight of the Octavia Housing & Care Trust and Kensington Housing Trust’s sixth annual fun day was a football tournament involving more than 20 local teams. Pictured is Actual Soccer, an under-eights team from west London. They are (top row, from left): Beth Couples, Elliot Gordon, Connor ...
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Archive TitlesPeace in his time
GHA’s chief executive says he’s willing to work with campaigners who tried to derail the RSL
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Heres an idea
Create a rent arrears board game to grab tenants’ interest and remind them to pay up
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Help others to help yourself
Last week, you highlighted an excellent idea – a repairs service for elderly or vulnerable tenants (16 July, page 33). For the past three years my wife and I have run a company, Small Jobs, based on the same idea.We did not have a large budget to subsidise the service. ...
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Kids from hell or just scapegoats?
Teenagers hanging around on street corners is a pretty unremarkable phenomenon, and by no means new. Were I to ask which of you hadn’t undertaken at least some kerbside loafing in your teens, I wouldn’t expect a bulging post bag.
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It’s time to make a move on gypsy and traveller issues
I know that the tabloid newspapers are not the place to search for consistency but even I, with my low expectations, was taken aback to see one such newspaper managing simultaneously to deplore the inflammatory words of Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi while hailing the recent decision not to prosecute in ...
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Archive TitlesA rough guide to inspections
Or how the audit commission will transform scrutiny of housing providers. By Martin Palmer, the commission's head of housing for the central region
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Run on right-to-acquire forces redundancies at South Liverpool
£1m savings must be made after sale of 150 homes slashes income
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Archive TitlesIn the flow
Planning consent was last week upheld on this development, Hopton Street, next to the Tate Modern art gallery in London’s Bankside district. The Court of Appeal rejected claims by local people that the building would infringe their human rights and dismissed an application to the House of Lords. The 20-storey, ...
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Fighting for scraps
The comprehensive spending review dished up £20bn for housing and only allocated £12bn of it. A few vital parts of the sector are scrambling for the rest – and they want much more than the £8bn that’s left over for the next three years. Stuart Macdonald and Chloe Stothart do ...
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Archive TitlesLandlords face snap inspections on nuisance
Local Communities could demand probes if they feel antisocial behaviour isn’t tackled
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Enough is enough
Antisocial behaviour makes people’s lives a misery and blights communities. It isn’t fair that the selfish few – the louts and the nuisance neighbours – should be allowed to ride roughshod over everyone else.Graffiti, litter and abandoned cars foster an environment where crime and antisocial behaviour can thrive. But in ...