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Archive TitlesVetrotech plays to the Academy
Fire-resistant glazing specialist Vetrotech Saint-Gobain has supplied its Fivestar glazing system to the security management team at the world famous Royal Academy of Music
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Archive TitlesAiding and abetting
Security managers working in the healthcare sector must begin to develop a complete and true understanding of – and a healthy respect for – the other professions in the sector. As we argue, a spirit of mutual respect and co-operation between the security and nursing professions is vital if patient ...
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SSR Salary Survey 2002: Money, money, money...
SSR Personnel, the leading recruitment specialist for the security sector, has used its extensive database of 60,000 applicants and 40,000 service users to undertake its tenth Annual Salary Survey. We examine the results, and the impact they're likely to have on the readers of SMT.
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Think tank
How can we make better use of larger properties?Can I, as a social landlord, require tenants to move to smaller homes if their needs are reduced, thus freeing up family-sized accommodation to meet housing needs? Can this be made a term of tenancy, assisting in the effective use of social ...
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Quality Street
Lovell Partnerships was named “affordable housing provider of the year” in the Building Homes Quality Awards this week. Judges praised the firm behind the St Mary’s Village mixed-tenure scheme in Hackney in east London (pictured) for its “lateral thinking” and the virtual reality toolkit it developed to show residents how ...
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Public & private
Builders will only invest in brownfield sites if public cash is spent too
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Transfer notes
I cannot readily recall a large-scale voluntary stock transfer where a video was not produced by the council concerned
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Archive TitlesMovers and shakers
One London council's individual approach to encouraging tenants on its waiting lists to move north is proving popular with those who take the plunge
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Hostel territory
What makes a shared house a hostel? It's down to tenure, management and relationships
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Here's an idea
An empty property in Sunderland is giving tenants a bit of peace during refurbishment
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Hemel Homestead
Hightown Praetorian Housing Association has opened a new development of 15 Egan-compliant timber-frame homes built across Aylesbury and Hemel Hempstead. HPHA worked in partnership with manufacturer Timber Frame Solutions on the project.
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'Greenfield is not sacrosanct' says McNulty
The government has opened the door for housing associations that are constrained by a lack of brownfield sites in high demand areas to use greenfield land for social housing
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Scottish-right to-buy restrictions go live
A law seeking to restrict tenants’ right to buy their homes has come into force in Scotland
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Threat to homelessness services' funds
Services may suffer in plan to dock Supporting People interim grants
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Due south
At Labour's annual conference in Blackpool this week, John Prescott claimed housing is now at the top of his agenda. But to really get to grips with the housing crisis he needs a more coherent policy for the South
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If at first you don't succeed ...
As the government ponders extending tenancy succession to same-sex partners, our contributor revisits the rules
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Westminster presses for more key-worker units in disputed Dolphin Square
More flats could be available for key workers at the prestigious Dolphin Square development in central London after a change of ownership
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Housing PFI to grow despite private finance ‘no’ vote
The private finance initiative for housing is set to grow to the expected £1.5bn over the next four years, despite the government suffering an embarrassing defeat over the use of private money
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English Partnerships and Housing Corporation to work together on land supply
The Housing Corporation and government regeneration agency English Partnerships have agreed to increase cooperation in areas such as land supply for housing
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Editor's comment
He may have sprung into action sooner than expected, but John Prescott's choice of housing inspector won't really have surprised anyone