All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 785
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Archive TitlesCorporation to crack down on executive pay
Tackling soaring salaries and severance packages among senior executives will be a priority for the Housing Corporation’s new chief executive.
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Consultation's what you need
The new rules on spending service charges will oblige you to consult more, but they also allow for long-term contracts. Here's how to stay on the right side of the law
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The noise conspiracy
Mediation is not a solution to domestic noise nuisance. Acoustic insulation is. How can Liam Jensen (Letters, 21 May, page 25) ask noise sufferers to tell neighbours not to laugh or cry, not to enjoy themselves, not to rush up and down stairs, not to use the television, without ending ...
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CIH tells Scottish executive to fund more homes
The Scottish Executive needs to increase funding for affordable rented housing by 50%, according to the Chartered Institute of Housing.
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Caught in a loop
Martin Marks has got the wrong end of the stick about Supporting People (Letters, 4 June, page 23). The reason we have the system is that the ODPM, or DETR as it was, was concerned that housing money, via housing benefit, was paying for care. It may seem a mite ...
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Archive TitlesRed cap gang
RED CAP GANG: Southampton council’s junior neighbourhood wardens joined a community safety orienteering event last Friday.Twenty-five youngsters used maps and clues to follow a course, answering community safety questions at each site they visited.The junior wardens help with local jobs such as picking up litter and cleaning up grafitti. In ...
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CABE names new chief executive
The government’s architecture watchdog has appointed a new chief executive and published a strategy focused on housing growth areas and market renewal.
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Archive TitlesBelieve in me
Poor old Housing Corporation – few people seem to know what it's for any more. But new chief executive Jon Rouse is convinced he can restore its credibility, and he's started by taking a £25,000 pay cut. Mark Beveridge found out why, and what else he's planning to do.
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Archive TitlesCouncillors look at postal votes before polls close
Housing Today investigation uncovers widespread abuse during postal voting pilots
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Archive TitlesBig Bang
BIG BANG: This Foster & Partners’ design for Pelham Square will form part of the regeneration of Hastings in East Sussex. It will include residential and commercial property and will complement the adjacent Millennium Community, which will include 700 affordable homes.
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Archive TitlesBad medicine
BAD MEDICINE: Housing could learn from the problems of private finance initiative school and hospital projects such as the redevelopment of Barts Hospital in London, a new report has said. The study, by Jeff Zitron, director of consultant Hacas Chapman Hendy, said the design of PFI schools and hospitals ...
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Archive TitlesPavement art
Pavement art: The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has launched a plan to encourage civic art like Milton Keynes' Paparazzi by Steven Gregory. CABE and cultural quango Art & Business are together putting £500,000 towards the initiative, which will target housing market renewal projects and regeneration schemes. It ...
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Apex and Airways plan sector's second-biggest merger
Move would create landlord with 11,000 homes across south of England
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Probe at Tamil Community after chief executive suspended
An investigation was launched at Tamil Community Housing Association on Tuesday after its chief executive was suspended from duty.
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Plan to keep refugees out of South is added to Blunkett's asylum bill
The Home Office plans to force more than 40,000 refugees to stay in the North and Midlands.
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Want new thinking about housing? The feeling's mutual
A few weeks ago I was at a presentation where CDS Housing outlined proposals for providing low-cost homeownership.
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Housing boards able to stop council cash
Regional housing boards will be able to stop all funding for specific councils if their needs do not fit with regional priorities.
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Barclays hedges £82m for two more associations
Barclays Bank has announced two hedging deals worth £82m after a bumper fortnight of signings.
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West Norfolk to save £4m in efficiency bid
West Norfolk council is to save almost £4m a year through greater efficiency.