All Archive Titles articles – Page 1013
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Archive TitlesHurry up on prefab, Prescott tells sector
Deputy prime minister slams slow delivery of OSM homes promised in Communities Plan
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Housing's premier league
Am I the only person who follows the Housing Corporation's latest Performance Indicators for Housing Associations 2002 as keenly as the football results? One of my many hobby horses has been the issue of what the "right" size is for a housing association? Any organisation needs to be large enough ...
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Solihull to use three housing strategies
Solihull council is to press ahead with three different stock options in an attempt to get its 12,000 homes up to the decent homes standard.
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Ground rules
Despite an uncertain market, some RSLs are still buying land. But it's a risky business
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Tesco gives shelter
Regarding the story "Tesco to build up to 4000 homes in next five years" (16 May, page 14): Tesco also has a track record of working in partnership with local authorities in terms of sheltered housing provision. In Weston-super-Mare, a successful leasehold sheltered scheme provides town-centre accommodation for many local ...
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Yorkshire housing providers need more funds to support refugees
Councils in Yorkshire and Humberside could face a huge shortfall in Supporting People funds because refugees are choosing to settle there after dispersal.
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Archive TitlesPrescott: 'We've set targets and I'm going to damn well deliver on them'
The seeds of John Prescott's outburst about the slow progress on off-site manufactured housing were sown almost a year ago.
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George's Cross
George's Cross: Lambeth council has insisted that it may still decline developer St George’s latest application to build Vauxhall Tower in south London – despite pressure from the London mayor to grant permission. The mayor backed the plan after St George raised the amount of affordable housing from 25% to ...
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Complaints and complications
When a supported housing tenant complained to his housing association, things went from bad to worse …
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Commission urged to focus CPA tests on value for money
Comprehensive performance assessment for councils will be of limited use unless the Audit Commission puts greater emphasis on value for money, the Housing Quality Network has warned.
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Editor's comment
In Hong Kong, housing directors sit pretty high up the job league. There are always more applicants than positions, so membership of the Chartered Institute of Housing is highly prized; to get in, people study five nights a week and Saturday afternoons for four years. In the UK, it's a ...
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We get what's coming to us
It was with great interest that I read "Get what's coming to you" (9 May, page 28), the article about how to improve rent collection in which large, well-resourced housing associations featured heavily but their smaller brothers and sisters were hardly mentioned at all. As senior housing officer of a ...
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Archive TitlesCathy and me
You've probably seen Cathy Come Home but if you weren't old enough to watch TV when it was first shown, you might not realise what an impact it had. Chris Holmes pays tribute to the influential drama and its creator Jeremy Sandford, who died earlier this month
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Government plans fixed-rate subsidy to boost housing PFI
PFI allowance would increase financial certainty for councils
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Archive TitlesBold Street
Bold Street: M3 Architects' design for the Old Street Interchange in north London will feature in this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, from 2 June to 10 August. The 40- and 60-storey towers would include 500 homes, of which up to 35% would be social housing.
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Perks and benefits
Regarding payments to tenant board members and the potential impact on their benefits ("Benefit issues may drive tenants away from boards", 25 April, page 7). What is the situation if tenants are provided with a pool car, mobile phone, computer, internet access and other "perks" instead of payment?Will the perks ...
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Archive TitlesTory bastion to keep stock under council control
Wandsworth says right-to-buy revenue will finance work to meet decent homes target
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Five authorities may try CIH's tenant ownership plan
Five councils are considering using a tenant participation model to help meet the decent homes standard.
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Growth areas 'will fail', economist warns
Two of the government's key housing policies will fail to solve the housing crisis in the South-east, a leading property economist has warned.