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DTI plans to curb rogue lenders won't work, say poverty groups
Anti-Poverty campaigners have rubbished government proposals to use penalty points on the licences of rogue credit lenders.
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Lack of consultation is putting us off, complain mortgage lenders
lending to housing associations is being jeopardised by the government's failure to involve lenders more closely in policymaking.
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Archive TitlesHousing professionals reveal Communities Plan wish lists
HOUSING PROFESSIONALS SPOKE out this week on what they hoped to see in deputy prime minister John Prescott's Communities Plan.
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Clean up planning system if you want modern homes, ODPM told
Housing Forum report recommends outsourcing planning submissions to private firms
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Hillcrest chief: Dumbiedykes plans were 'doomed to fail'
A defunct £22m stock transfer plan to transform a council estate in Edinburgh was "almost certainly doomed to fail", according to the chief executive of one of the housing associations that was to have taken over the 670 homes.Edinburgh council announced last month that it considered the plans to be ...
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Chester-le-Street wins last-minute reprieve from housing takeover
Beleaguered Chester-le-Street council has avoided a government takeover of its housing after being ordered to set up a new type of arm's-length management organisation.
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How to … Run a fire safety campaign
Fight fire with creative education for both landlords and tenants.
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Archive TitlesMoat to build teachers' homes on school land
Moat Housing Group has announced a £700,000 pilot scheme to build 10 homes for teachers in the grounds of a Kent school.
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Calls to extend housing benefit to homeowners
Housing benefit must be extended to homeowners, according to research that revealed half of owner-occupiers are in poverty.
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Birmingham council backs inquiry results
Birmingham is set to hand over its council homes to local housing organisations within four years after the council's cabinet backed the report of the independent housing inquiry.
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Human rights challenge to asylum-seeker laws
A Human rights group Is to launch a legal challenge to the government’s crackdown on illegal immigrants.
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Councils start legal challenge to 'crude' comprehensive assessment ratings
Ealing and Torbay councils have launched a legal bid to overturn poor comprehensive performance assessment ratings.
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Archive TitlesAmbitious? The housing targets don't even begin to reduce the backlog
In the next few weeks the government will publish the much-heralded Communities Plan, with its promise of a "step-change" in housing policy. It is expected that a key proposal will be the development of the Thames Gateway and major expansions around Milton Keynes, Stansted and Ashford. Prepare now for the ...
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Affordable dome
Affordable dome: Thousands of affordable homes could be built in south-east London under a 20-year plan to regenerate the area around the Millennium Dome. A consortium involving Meridian Delta, English Partnerships and Anschutz Entertainment Group Europe submitted a planning application just before Christmas to Greenwich council for 10,000 homes, offices, ...
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Archive TitlesNew Year's honours list rewards housing and council achievements
The New Year's honours list included awards for a host of local government and housing professionals and campaigners.
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Abbey National in review of social housing business
Sector's fourth-biggest lender pondering move to focus on personal finance
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Curbs on right-to-buy abuses held up until 2004
Loophole closure must wait for law to change, but discounts may be cut within a month
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2003 and all that
If you thought last year was a busy one for the law, this year promises even more changes