January
  • 5: Deadline for BME associations to bid for cash to help them with rent restructuring
  • 12: Launch of Coventry and Teignbridge housing benefit pathfinders
  • 15: Olympic masterplanners submit designs for Lower Lea Valley in east London
  • Results of the Supporting People review
  • Government verdict on Crossrail for the Thames Gateway
  • Audit Commission to circulate its study of RSL management efficiency within Whitehall
  • More information on government campaign against antisocial behaviour, including details of the role of "trailblazers" and crack team of prosecutors

    February

  • 2: Launch of Brighton and Hove housing benefit pathfinder
  • 9: Edinburgh, North East Lincolnshire, Conwy and Leeds housing benefit pathfinders launch
  • John Egan's report into construction skills shortages due
  • Wrexham stock transfer ballot – the second wholesale transfer in Wales

    March

  • The Budget, and with it the Barker and Miles reviews
  • 24: deadline for home secretary's asylum amnesty
  • 28: Housing Corporation review result, and departure of chief executive Norman Perry
  • End of the month: Birmingham's target for completing backlog of 45,000 repairs

    April

  • 1: Government bed-and-breakfast deadline
  • 1: Council prudential borrowing allowed
  • Housing Corporation's new development approach begins in earnest
  • Eight of nine market renewal pathfinders due to start spending
  • Places for People review released, two new board members appointed

    May

  • Genie Turton, the ODPM's director general of housing, planning and homelessness, steps down
  • 1.5 million homes must meet the decent homes standard

    June

  • London urban development corporation established

    July/August

  • Chancellor unveils comprehensive spending review for 2005-2008

    September

  • Humberside pathfinder strategy finally due

    October

  • Vote on whether to set up regional assemblies in the north-east, north-west and Yorkshire and Humberside

    November

  • Urban summit

    December

  • Joseph Rowntree report on code of governance for the sector