All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 829
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What DLOs can do for rsls
A properly set up and organised direct labour organisation with adequate management and staff is a great asset to any housing maintenance service (“The unsung heroes of repairs and maintenance”, 26 March, page 22). Advice on DLOs can be obtained from publications of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and ...
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Didn’t they do well?
Ever wondered how the innovative schemes covered by Housing Today work in practice – or even if they’re still going at all? In the first of a new series, Kate Freeman revisits five projects to find out … ...
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Three PFIs signed as next round is delayed
Three housing and care private finance initiative deals, backed by £61m of government cash, have been signed this week.
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Ombudsman fines three councils
four rulings this week by the Local Government Ombudsman landed three councils with fines worth a total £3850.
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Archive TitlesCruickshank moves in Corporation shake-up
The Housing Corporation has reshuffled its southern senior team in preparation for the departure of director of investment Clive Turner, at the end of this month.
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Archive TitlesEntente cordiale
Entente cordiale: Octavia Housing and Care has won planning permission for its innovative White City housing development in west London.An Anglo-French collaboration, the scheme is a demonstration project for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and the Housing Corporation. It is being developed in parallel with a housing ...
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Key worker cash not to be sniffed at
“Spot the Key Workers” (26 March, page 28) trotted out the usual list of grumbles about key worker housing schemes. No such scheme will satisfy everybody’s definition of a key worker and no such scheme will satisfy everybody’s funding demands. However, £690m is not to be sniffed at. Key Worker ...
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Lenders should help first-time buyers – CML
Mortgage lenders should subsidise first-time buyers to buy low-cost homes in the private sector, according to the chair of financiers’ body the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
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Liverpool in bid for new funding option
one of the country’s biggest councils has said it would consider abandoning its plans for stock transfer if it were allowed to invest in its homes directly.
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Archive TitlesYorkshire & the Humber: Beauty contest
The government's strategy to tackle Yorkshire and the Humber's overheating north and low-demand south hinges on economic growth and jobs but, as Joey Gardiner found out, it could be more important to create places that people actually want to live in
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If you can't beat them, join together
Does size matter above all else? It appears that it does for the ODPM and the Housing Corporation, in their overwhelming desire to get more for their money: 80% of the development funding pot has been given to 71 registered social landlords who, by a happy accident, happen to be ...
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Archive TitlesLondon B&B prices fall as councils meet deadline
A fall in the cost of bed and breakfast rooms is set to save London's councils more than £1m this year.
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Archive TitlesDeath of Ruth Bagnall 'a huge loss to local government'
Sector mourns chair of the Local Government Association's housing executive
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Corporation backs call for 'less intrusive' regulation of best RSLs
The Housing Corporation has agreed to give lighter-touch regulation to high-performing housing associations.
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MPs back call for decent homes mark two
a proposed change to the Housing Bill that would mean the introduction of a second decent homes target has been backed by 77 MPs.
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I got you, Babe
Housing Corporation chair Peter Dixon compares the ODPM select committee's inquiry into the corporation with the weighing of a pig (19 March, page 25). In the film Babe, the porcine protagonist responds to being weighed by urinating on the farmer's boots. Did Dixon have this scene in mind? If so, ...
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Archive TitlesTelford: ageing badly
The new town isn't looking its best, but it is using pathfinder-style tactics to revive estates
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NASS looks to cut cost of asylum seeker accommodation
New contracts will try to 'reduce unit costs' as well as improve cohesion
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First-round ALMOs get £61m
First-round arm's-length management organisations are to get £61m more than was anticipated when they submitted their initial funding bids in 2001.