All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 884
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Archive TitlesRight to buy caps should be relaxed, says academic
The government should allow bigger discounts to tenants who want to buy their council homes, a leading housing academic has said.
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Planning fees should rise by up to 40%, says ODPM report
New research shows grants and fees leave councils £60m short of their costs
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Difficult choices must be made 3
Peta Waters-Dewhurst missed the point about antisocial behaviour. The reason for retaining eviction as a tool is that, without it, suffering neighbours (including those with their own problems) are conscripted into being unpaid, unprotected members of the social care services.Without the option of eviction for the troublesome tenant, their neighbours ...
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2nd opinion: Let's be more creative
Barbara Thorndick asks: why are we so obsessed with low-cost homeownership for key workers?
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Difficult choices must be made 2
The debate highlighted the disparity between working "on the ground" and research and policy-making. Peta Waters-Dewhurst raised some interesting points, but I would imagine she has never worked as a housing officer or had first-hand experience of dealing with an antisocial tenant.If all other measures have been exhausted and a ...
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Blunkett wants public to pay for extra local police
The public could have the option to pay for extra police for their local areas, under a plan proposed today by the home secretary.
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Archive TitlesPick of the plans
Pick of the plans: Hackney council and residents have chosen this PRP Architects-designed scheme for the redevelopment of the Haggerston and West Kingsland Estates in Hackney, north London. London & Quadrant housing association will manage the affordable new-build homes. A total of 723 dwellings in an equal mix of affordable ...
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Rent restructuring must be relaxed
I was surprised to read that Home Group is involved in "secret talks" with the Housing Corporation about "waiving some of its rent restructuring obligations" (9 January, page 8). The truth is quite the opposite.I have been publicly arguing since rent control was introduced that a rigid system of rent ...
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Archive TitlesLandlord profile
William Sutton Group hopes its metamorphosis into a group will mean more funding
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How To … make sure your services are working well
Good 'outcome management' is the secret to success, say Sally Culpitt and Kevin Ireland
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Archive TitlesWho would live in a house like this?
Who would live in a house like this? Students from the Academia di Architettura, in Mendrisio, Switzerland, submitted this entry to the 2003 Design Competition for an Ecohouse. The brief was to design a family home that avoided reliance on fossil fuel, was comfortable and had areas of “thermal delight”.
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Here's an idea
Set up a multi-agency complaints scheme to nip petty nuisance in the bud
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Funding pot for new safety ratings system
The government is to pay up to £5m to train environmental health officers as a result of the new system for assessing housing conditions.
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Finally, help for those who want partners
New consultation regulations will make it easier to work in partnership when procuring major works. But many landlords can still expect challenges in the short term
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Job doctor
A changing industry requires new standards of training: UCL has stepped into the breach
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Cruel to be kind?
Last spring, a junkie prostitute was evicted for antisocial behaviour. When consultant Adam Greenwood wrote about her case in Housing Today as an example of how such a situation should be handled, student Peta Waters-Dewhurst was outraged. She challenged him to a public debate on how nuisance tenants should be ...
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The CPA is flawed
It is outrageous and unacceptable that Brighton & Hove council should lose ground in the comprehensive performance assessment ratings on the basis of its performance on best value performance indicator 183 ("Brighton & Hove slams 'flawed' CPA", 19 December 2003, page 8).The indicator measures time spent in B&Bs and hostels ...
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Archive TitlesMinister for controversy
Chris Pond is the man in charge of two very thorny issues: the direct payment of housing benefit and the consultation on docking benefit from antisocial tenants. He told Chloe Stothart why he firmly supports both ideas.
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Archive TitlesCoach party
Coach party: Justin Holis, 14, is one of 15 teenagers who have started football coaching classes at Southampton FC as part of the Outer Shirley regeneration programme. The group was given a tour of Southampton’s stadium and met some of the club’s professional coaches. The initiative is part of the ...