All Archive Titles articles – Page 1021
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Welcoming access!
Robin Rice, Managing Director of Abloy Security Ltd, consider the factors shaping the latest access control systems
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Archive TitlesHow to… Hold a community planting day
It makes the place look nice, gets tenants involved – and it's a laugh.
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Archive TitlesAsylum seeker centre proposal jeopardises plan for 500 homes
Plans for 500 homes in Hampshire could fall by the wayside if Home Office proposals for an asylum-seeker accommodation centre get the green light.
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Archive TitlesStrife begins at 50
London mayor Ken Livingstone won't budge an inch on his demand that 50% of all new housing in the capital is affordable. Councils say it just can't be done. Is there any way around this impasse?
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Tesco to build up to 4000 homes in next five years
Affordable housing will feature in up to 20 supermarket developments
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Archive Titles36 warden schemes at risk as ODPM cuts cash
Government's £68m start-up funding for programme runs out next March
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Biometrics Masterclass [Part3]: What customers want
A beginner's guide by Sean Taylor, Manager for Iris Recognition Products at Panasonic UK Ltd
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Into the 21st century!
This year is seeing a 25 per cent month-on-month increase in customers registering their accounts for business on-line, says Gardiner Security, which has re-launched an upgraded and expanded e-commerce site
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Kirklees ALMO 'may drop council services' by 2004
Audit Commission pressure leads to ALMOs looking to private sector for better deals
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The bench test 2: Wise move
Rokonet iWISE 815 DT dual technology movement sensorA new standard for the industry?
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Archive TitlesThe bench test 1: Silky smooth
Panasonic's WVCS320 dome cameraSuperbly-built mechanical components
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Career path
Ellen Bennett meets a man who swapped firefighting for housing and others on the move
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Archive TitlesTransformer
David Higgins is the Australian ex-property tycoon charged with turning English Partnerships from just another quango into a home-delivering juggernaut. A daunting task, but he's confident … Stuart Macdonald asked him why.
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Think tank
Can we get help with the cost of buying a home?We are looking to buy a house and move from our rented council house. Is it true that there is a payment awarded in this scenario?You are probably thinking of the Tenants' Incentive Scheme, which used to offer payments to ...
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Archive TitlesRoad works
ROAD WORKS: Radcliffe Road, Southampton, is among the developments to benefit from a £19.28m Housing Corporation grant to Swaythling Housing Society. Of its 12 flats and 19 houses, three will be for shared ownership and the rest will be general-needs rented. There will be two wheelchair units. The grant has ...
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Archive TitlesA place in the sun
Research has shown that rooms with direct sunlight provide much healthier environments, so should more be done to reconcile this with current Building Regulations?
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Pension protection
Regarding the William Sutton Trust's decision to raise its retirement age from 60 to 65 for employees who joined after April 2002 ("Southern switches to stakeholder pensions", 17 April, page 8): a retirement age of 65 is increasingly common in the housing world, particularly since the sector-leading social housing pensions ...
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Pay me please
The article "Benefit issues may drive tenants away from boards" (25 April, page 7) prompted me to answer some of the remarks recently made by people who, on the whole, know nothing about social housing from the point of view of a tenant.First, I want to point out to all ...
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Keep your pointless payments
We are tenant board members and we will be resigning if payment to board members goes ahead. Not just because of the effect it will have on benefits, but on principle.It will be tenants who suffer because the money that should be going on repairs and refurbishment will be used ...