All Archive Titles articles – Page 1081
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Eaton buys Delta's electrical arm
US giant Eaton Corporation has snapped up names including MEM and Bill for £130 million.
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Think 2010 promises new agenda
Industry bodies unite to set a challenging new agenda for the future of the building service sector.
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Think tank
Who is responsible for tenants who won't go?I am a member of a very small housing cooperative. We used to have just three houses, but then the short-term let ended on one house. Most of the people in the house left when asked but two remained living there and other ...
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The queen and I
The queen and I: Catherine “Katie” Sullivan, of Hazelhurst Court in Bradford, celebrated her 100th birthday on January 15. Hazelhurst Court is owned by B&N Housing. A lifelong Bradford resident, Katie was visited by the mayor, Richard Wightman, and was guest of honour at a surprise party thrown by her ...
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Public & Private
Richard Murphy on the pros and cons of fixing interest rates – and your other options
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Transfer notes
One of the unnerving aspects of working in housing and regeneration is the extent to which legal custom and practice can be forced to change almost overnight by shifts in government policy and Housing Corporation regulation.
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Archive TitlesThe mix-master
Ted Cantle, the chairman of the government's community cohesion panel, took the job because it was a 'ridiculous challenge'. That's putting it mildly. Saba Salman met a man who spends every day in a political minefield, trying to heal divided communities.
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Look north
In general, I agree with Chris Holmes that "The housing targets don't even begin to reduce the backlog" (9 January, page 16).But I would suggest that the priority has to be to stem the drift from Northern cities.To do that, government and campaigners need to address the fundamental problems of ...
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Quality public spaces mean quality of life
Every morning, I walk through the Henry Prince Estate in Wandsworth. Designed and constructed by the local council in 1938, it has stood the test of time admirably well. Four-storey blocks enclose a small network of streets and courtyards. The River Wandle rushes past at the back of the estate ...
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Treasury rules jeopardise market renewal pathfinders
Government stance on public-funded profits casts doubt on pathfinders' business plans
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History repeating
With the current interest in the right to buy, I thought readers might be interested in this evidence of where it all began (right). As shown by this report from Norwich's local newspaper, the Eastern Daily Press, of 2 February 1953, it seems it started in Great Yarmouth 50 years ...
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Smash the drab
Smash the drab: Demolition has started on the Southgore estate in North Leverton, Nottinghamshire, following the transfer of the houses to Longhurst housing association. The estate's 71 houses are to be replaced by 42 homes for rent and shared ownership as part the £3m redevelopment. Tenants have been moved out ...
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Glasgow transfer hit by doubt over public or private status of RSLs
The legal status of registered social landlords has been called into question once again following a last-ditch attempt to halt Glasgow's £4bn stock transfer.
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Danger: Overload
Benefit officers are busy people. But this year, with a flurry of payment and verification changes to implement and new tax and pension credit systems to deal with, their workload is set to get even heavier. Tom Broughton asks: how will they cope?
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Archive TitlesTrevor Phillips to replace Singh as CRE head
Greater London Assembly chairman Trevor Phillips has been named the new head of the Commission for Racial Equality.
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Councils demand more influence on quangos
England's best-performing councils are to flex their muscles with a demand for more influence over the quangos that run and fund local services.
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Right-to-buy reforms slammed by councils
Government changes made to the controversial right-to-buy policy have been slammed by council representatives as "a hell of a mess" and biased towards London.
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Editor's comment
Welcome to the Thames Gateway, twinned with Pays de la Seine and Tony McNulty. Yes, there is something overtly gimicky about the latest proposal cooked up by the deputy prime minister to pair his five ministers with the four growth areas in the South-east and the nine market renewal pathfinders ...
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Southern comforts, northern plight
Everyone knows the South is overcrowded while the North languishes in the depths of low demand. Pouring money into Southern housing and transport will only exacerbate the problem – we need nothing less than a fundamental rethink of government policy.