All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 854
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Here's an idea
A few simple design changes can help prevent children developing asthma
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Archive TitlesWish they were here
Not many British politicians would actively encourage immigrants to come to their country. But Scotland's ageing, declining population means the Scottish Executive has advertised the country as a desirable destination for migrants. Mark Beveridge reports on how Scotland is battling to overcome its image problem
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Archive TitlesGreen and interesting
Green and interesting: This development is among those made possible by the £250,000 saved by registered social landlord Silbury Group in a refinancing deal.The 17 homes will not use fossil fuel and will emulate the ecological standards of Peabody's BedZED development. Silbury has taken out an extra £30m loan with ...
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Archive TitlesGet together
Get together: Joan Sharpe is one of the tenants to benefit from the William Sutton Trust and Manningham Housing Association's work to improve community links between people of different ethnic backgrounds in Bradford.The scheme scooped the best partnership prize at the Federation of Black Housing Organisations' annual awards in London ...
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Go get 'em
This year's salary survey of housing associations confirms the worst: the sector is in the grip of a recruitment crisis. Demand is outstripping supply in many key posts and this is leading to double-digit pay rises (see pages 7 and 26-29). Across associations as a whole, the average pay rise ...
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Muggers, pickpockets and other great educationalists
Somebody or other recently attacked parents who move house in order to put themselves in the catchment area of a favoured school. The subtext was that it is more honest simply to pay for a child's education.
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From democracy to dictatorship
When the board of a tenant management organisation began acting more like a ruler than a servant, tenants were aggrieved. So what did the council do?
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How to … get young people decorating
They need a brighter self-image before they brighten their homes.
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Archive TitlesTickell leaves NHF to set up consultancy
National Housing Federation deputy chief executive James Tickell is to resign in May after 10 years at the body.
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CIH Scotland demands end to judicial reviews
The Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland is to publish a major report on the settlement of tenant-landlord disputes.
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'Let us offer child trust funds', say credit unions
Community-based finance organisations are calling for the right to offer the government's child trust fund to their members.
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… while Northern consortium gets tough on capital receipts
The government should strengthen the restrictions on the right to buy and allow councils to use capital receipts to replace homes, the Northern Housing Consortium is to tell ministers.
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CPRE: Building more homes will not make them cheaper
The government's drive to lower the cost of housing by building more homes will not work, according to the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
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Archive TitlesBrendan Nevin quits as head of North Staffordshire market renewal pathfinder
The head of North Staffordshire's £2.3bn market renewal pathfinder has resigned just days after the body released its strategy for regenerating more than 60,000 houses.
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Archive TitlesNo room to breathe
We've known about the link between poor housing and health for 150 years. So why is the government still so unwilling to tackle the problem of overcrowding in Britain's homes?
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London boroughs slam inflation-busting rent rise
Whitehall restructuring policy forces council to increase rents by more than 5%
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Power revisits Birmingham to track progress
Academic Anne Power has begun a series of visits to Birmingham to assess the council’s moves to devolve control of its housing service.
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Housing managers are big winners on pay
Soaring wages are down to skills shortages and competition with private sector, says survey
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Newham beginnings
Newham beginnings: Work begins on the demolition of 13 derelict homes in Newham, east London. The £4.1m scheme will turn the site into 42 homes for key workers for Newham NHS Trust. Designed by Calford Seaden and built by Denne Construction, the scheme for Presentation Housing Association will be completed ...
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Archive TitlesOn the ball
On the ball: Castle Vale Community Housing Association youth worker Rocky Regent keeps Reece Rickus (left) and Michael Halloran (right) off the streets as part of Castle Vale’s expanded youth project to tackle antisocial behaviour in Birmingham. The association claims to be one of the country’s few housing associations to ...