All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 791
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This isn't the place for a family reunion
The law forbids RSL staff or their 'close relations' from benefiting from their position, but it is painfully vague. Fixing it might be a job for the Housing Bill
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Archive TitlesRising in the east
Rising in the east: This development, Horizon in Stratford, east London, is an example of the type Boleyn & Forest Housing Society will fund with a £15m loan from Bradford & Bingley. The project is a mix of affordable rent, shared-ownership and outright-sale homes with commercial units at street level.
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Archive TitlesAt cross roads
At cross roads: Developer Argent St George has submitted its delayed application for the regeneration of King's Cross. Up to 2500 homes, half of which will be affordable, are proposed as well as 500,000 m2 of business space, the refurbishment of listed buildings and the construction of three bridges. Bob ...
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Insurers: 'deal with flood risk or we won't cover new homes'
Insurance 'would not be readily available' for Thames Gateway and other flood-prone areas
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Corporation may get new powers to enforce charity law
Charitable housing associations could be hit by extra regulation if proposed changes to charity law are adopted.
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How to … enlist 'recycling champions'
Door-to-door chats can persuade people to separate glass and paper.
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A priority case
Kensington & Chelsea council did not place Ali Hassan in unsuitable accommodation in 1992 (14 May, page 24). A neighbouring council housed him and as soon as we became fully aware of Hassan’s circumstances, he was assessed by social services and placed on the common housing register. The council has ...
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London mayor calls for Thames Gateway target to be doubled
ODPM plans 59,000 new homes but Livingstone says area has potential for 120,000
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Bus fuss
I'm not denying the need for mobile services for drug users, but am I the only reader to have wondered at the logic of Kaleidoscope's mobile drugs support unit (14 May, page 30)?A "huge, American-style motor home" is hardly "low-key publicity to avoid attracting opposition from local residents". It might ...
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Stop this bureaucratic nonsense
I can’t believe that, not content with the bureaucratic mess it has already created from sheltered housing’s perspective, the ODPM’s latest Supporting People gem seems to be a requirement to convert communal window cleaning costs into an “hourly rate” for cost comparison. What about the zero hourly rates paid to ...
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Archive TitlesMy first boss
Joe Chambers tells Ellen Bennett what a formidable director taught him about leadership
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Government set to lose fight on whether RSLs are public bodies
The government stands to lose a court case that could force housing associations to obey onerous European procurement rules.
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Blunkett plans to force refugees to stay in North
They could only apply for homes in area they were dispersed, under secret Home Office idea
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Don’t blame the ramblers
Why are you blaming a charity for possible delays to the Manchester Grove Village project (28 May, page 12)? The blame quite clearly lies with either the local authority or the private finance initiative consortium.Local government has a statutory duty to keep open rights of way, so Manchester should have ...
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Archive TitlesBlackburn: hope springs
Blackburn with Darwen is forging a multicultural future despite high levels of deprivation
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Corporation lags behind on BME transfers
Up to 3000 homes are waiting to be transferred to black and minority-ethnic housing providers from larger landlords despite this having been Housing Corporation policy for 18 years.
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This is our best behaviour
At the start of the year the prime minister's policy adviser, Martin Hurst, summoned a number of housing professionals to Number 10. The prime minister, said Hurst, was very keen on the Dundee Families antisocial behaviour project, in which families or individuals are housed in a centre with 24-hour support ...
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Staff poaching set to stop RSLs becoming Corporation partners
Associations that have been left off the Housing Corporation's elite list of 71 long-term development partners are worried about a trend for poaching of employees.
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Council housing staff roped in to hand-deliver ballot forms
Officers' local knowledge comes in handy for authorities in postal voting pilots