All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 806
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ODPM removes limit on urban regeneration companies
The government has cleared the way for more urban regeneration companies to be created.
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… as Edinburgh residents vow to quash their city's transfer
Edinburgh tenants have vowed to scupper the council's plans for stock transfer and force a rethink of central government housing policy.
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MPs call for more decent homes cash
The decent homes target is unlikely to be met unless more money is committed to it, according to the ODPM select committee report on decent homes.
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Archive TitlesDrugs bussed
Need to know how to … support drug addicts in isolated areas? Kate Freeman reports on a Kaleidoscope Project mobile support unit that has hit the road in the Welsh valleys.
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Bringing down the crack house
The Antisocial Behaviour Act has given the police tough powers to close down drug dens. But what does that mean for the landlord whose property has been invaded?
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Archive TitlesChicks with bricks
Chicks with bricks: These students are using housebuilder Lovell as a case study for their A-levels in business studies. The 18 pupils from Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School in Barnet, north London, visited Lovell's housing sites and interviewed staff. They are pictured on a site where Lovell is building homes ...
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Archive TitlesNew type of prudential borrowing could net millions more for councils
English councils could borrow millions of extra pounds through a new type of prudential borrowing unveiled by the Northern Housing Consortium on Monday.
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Government set to boost legal status of design codes
ODPM to make codes a 'material consideration' for planners if pilots go well
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Hostility mounts to merger of planning and housing boards
OPposition to the government's plan to merge the regional planning and housing bodies is growing with new efforts in two regions to have the idea scrapped.
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Private tenants' deposits to get protection in Housing Bill
The government is set to include a new tenancy deposit scheme in the Housing Bill following a concerted campaign from housing charities and associations of private landlords.
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Hardy is biased
Jeremy Hardy is on the record as supporting the end of Israel. It therefore came as no surprise that he would eventually use his platform in Housing Today to peddle his distorted slur on the Jewish state (HT, 7 May, page 20). Knowing of his ridiculous traducement of this tragic ...
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Archive TitlesDon't believe the hype
Choice-based letting is supposed to let tenants browse estate agent-style details and give them more control over the homes they get. But so far, the scheme's greatest claim to fame is making people realise precisely what little choice they've got.
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I'm backing MHS
Well done to MHS Homes for sponsoring a football team, I say ("The Big Match", 7 May, page 26). I just wish I'd thought of it first. Considering the amount of coverage the sponsorship of Gillingham has brought, you know what your expert can do with his recommendation that "it's almost ...
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GHA sacks tenant board reps amid leak allegations …
Angry activists reject landlord's claim that pair breached its code of conduct
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Archive TitlesFor three years, Ali Hassan has been forced to crawl around his flat on his amputated legs.
Nearly 200,000 disabled people live in homes that are unsuitable for their needs. Yet they cannot be rehoused because there is nowhere better to go. Chloe Stothart tells one man's story and reports on what must be done to help people like him.
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Bexley to form development body after Gateway snub
London council to set up URC after being left out of Gateway development corporation
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Former asylum seekers lose new homes after misapplied legal advice
Former asylum seekers from new European Union states have lost alternative accommodation after they mistakenly acted on unofficial legal advice and refused to leave their homes.
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I was right about disabled aids
I'd like to reply to the letter last week saying we were wrong to say that the kinds of assistive technology we were describing in our article are only free if provided by a health authority and not if it provided by social services ("'Home help' was unhelpful", 7 May, ...
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2nd opinion: Let's not flog a dead horse
Tenant participation is a waste of money, says Tony Soares – it's meaningless and they don't want it anyway