All Archive Titles articles – Page 1017
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Empty homes consultation launched
The government has unveiled a consultation on giving councils the power to bring England and Wales' 300,000 empty homes back into use
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Editor's comment
It's no surprise that the government's long-awaited consultation paper on docking housing benefit for antisocial tenants has been greeted with universal condemnation. Charities and landlords have denounced the idea as unjust and unworkable ever since Frank Field MP first came up with it a year ago. One area of the ...
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Housing Forum starts campaign to double membership
The Housing Forum is launching a national drive to double its membership to 200 housebuilders and registered social landlords
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ODPM passes buck on gap funding for negative-value transfers
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is not going to provide gap funding for negative-value transfers, despite having promised a consultation on the issue
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Brighton & Hove in ODPM housing target row
A furious row over affordable housing targets has erupted between Brighton & Hove council and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
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Archive TitlesMore than bricks and water
Lancashire-based Places for People Group is to build 500 homes in Edinburgh, part of a £60m project. The homes, at least 15% of which will be affordable, will be built with developer Burrell Company. The deal is the first residential contract awarded byWaterfront Edinburgh, a regeneration joint venture set up ...
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Housing comes bottom in graduate careers poll
One in five would work in public sector – but just one in 50 would consider housing
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Archive Titles'Flesh and blood are the most important thing in life. Second is where you park your flesh and blood'
Fashion designer turned housing designer Wayne Hemingway once bemoaned the 'Barrattification' of British homes. 'All right,' said the builders, 'let's see you do it better' ...and made him chairman of design group Building for Life. So what are his social sector hits and misses?
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Birmingham challenges CPA rating
Birmingham council's moves to improve its housing services should be reflected in its comprehensive performance assessment rating, councillors claimed on Monday
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Hacas says it's business as usual while mystery bidder moves in
Housing consultant Hacas Chapman Hendy reassured clients that last Friday's mystery bid to buy it would not threaten its services
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Archive TitlesBarnsley's stormer
Staff were appalled when Barnsley council decided to hive off a third of its monolithic repairs and maintenance division to a private contractor. Eighteen months later, it's a different story
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Rooker: one bad project could scupper off-site sector
One bad scheme could set the fledgling off-site manufacturing industry back years, housing minister Lord Rooker has warned
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Audit Commission judges its first RSL
The Audit Commission has published its first inspection report for a housing association, a little more than a month after it took on the role of single housing inspectorate
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Four statutory appointments for New World board
The Housing Corporation has made four statutory appointments to the board of New World Housing Association
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Sector denounces plan to dock antisocial tenants' benefits
Private and social landlords set to clash with MPs over consultation released on Tuesday
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Antisocial Behaviour Bill would give landlords too much power, say lawyers
The Law Society has hit out at the Antisocial Behaviour Bill, saying it would grant housing associations too much power and give them the chance to abuse it
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ALMO third round to be biggest yet at £1.6bn
Bids for the third round of arm's-length management organisations totalled £1.6bn – an increase of £100m on the amount indicated in April when councils initially expressed an interest