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Archive Titlesspitalfields solution
Spitalfields solution: The 15-year saga over the future of the former site of the Spitalfields market in central London came closer to concluding last week as the Greater London Authority announced it was satisfied with proposals for the “well-designed development”. The site will include six storeys of offices, shops and ...
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Archive TitlesTHROWING SHAPES
THROWING SHAPES: Residents of London shelters run by homelessness charity Centrepoint had a Capoeira lesson last week from Brazilian dance expert Professor Rodrigo of the Association of Capoeria Engonhi da Rainha. Capoeria is a Brazilian martial art that blends fighting, acrobatics, dance and music.The training was part of a programme ...
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Archive TitlesRABBIT REDUX
RABBIT REDUX: This converted Victorian pub on Rabbits Road in Newham, east London, includes 21 affordable homes in a mixture of one- and two-bedroom flats within the original building and three-bedroom homes for shared ownership at the rear of the site. It was designed by architect Stock Woolstencroft on behalf ...
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Prescott plans watchdog for UK pathfinders
The nine housing market renewal pathfinders in the north of England and the Midlands will be scrutinised by an independent body that will make regular progress reports to the government.
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Transfer notes
One of the most frequent challenges directed at stock transfer lawyers is to produce material in “plain English”. A combination of woolly-mindedness and reliance on precedents has encouraged the production of documents that are not only full of jargon but horribly long as well. There are, however, one or two ...
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Archive TitlesYou’re nicked
You’re nicked: Private tenants and homelessness charity Shelter demonstrated outside the Old Bailey in London last Friday as notorious landlord Nicholas van Hoogstraten was handed a 10-year jail sentence for manslaughter. They demanded the law be changed to require all houses in multiple occupation to be licensed, and a code ...
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ODPM steps in to keep Humberside pathfinder on track
Old differences between Hull and East Riding councils threatened £2.6m pathfinder project
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Here's an idea
Training tenants to be translators can help to overcome language barriers
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How to … Help homeless people form relationships
Bonds with friends and family have a healing power, say Gerard Lemos and Stefan Durkacz
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Government policy is going nowhere fast
My main claim to fame is that my father was once in a B-movie called Reptilicus.
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Right-to-buy surge hits north-east England
Right-to-buy sales have surged in north-east England as new government figures reveal that half of England’s council homes have been sold off or transferred in the past two decades.
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Archive TitlesEastern promise
In the second of our series measuring the success of regeneration projects, Anna Minton looks at Tower Hamlets' joined-up approach to the numerous projects across its estates.
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Archive TitlesSheffield dropped from transfer list, forcing options rethink
Sheffield council has been dropped from the government's stock transfer list, writes Mark Beveridge. The move came after discussions last week with housing minister Lord Rooker.
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Housing Corporation unveils policy for elderly
The Housing Corporation has launched an investment policy designed to give elderly people greater choice over their accommodation.
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Comment
Most people still harbour a belief that if you work hard and pay your taxes, the state will take care of you in your old age. Seems straightforward enough, but unfortunately this is no longer a certainty. Rising demand and a chronic lack of cash are conspiring to push the ...
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Archive TitlesChange machine
Consultants, eh? It's all meaningless management jargon, isn't it? Not in Sue Goss' case. As Deepa Shah discovers, the straight-talking change guru is determined to get things done.
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Archive TitlesWho cares?
Care homes all over England are closing because housing associations can't afford to run them and neither can councils. The number of elderly people is soaring – but how will we will look after them, and who will pay?
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Rent caps will close care homes, provider warns
Progress Group warns it will lose £30m of investment unless exempted from rent caps
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CIH calls for ‘local housing corporations’
the Chartered Institute of Housing said this week that councils should be allowed to set up “local housing corporations” with the same borrowing freedoms as registered social landlords.