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Archive TitlesNew £12 million centre opened in Magna Park
Rexel Senate Electrical Supplies has opened a National Logistics Centre at Magna Park, Leicestershire. The £12 million centre will provide a next day electrical products distribution service. Customers can order any of over 35 000 product lines to be delivered to their local branch or site throughout the UK. Nigel ...
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Think tank
Do I have a right to move?I am a tenant of a housing trust. Can I hold my landlord to a promise to transfer me from my property, where there have been proven neighbour nuisance problems? Two years have passed since an offer was made, and when I write to ...
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Landmark saved
Sheffield City Council last week invited bids to refurbish the city’s grade II-listed Park Hill Flats.The decision follows a study by architect HTA which concluded that the 1000-unit blocks could be redeveloped rather than demolished. The council is understood to be seeking a housing association and private developer to lead ...
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How to … Set performance indicators for sheltered housing
Sheltered housing providers should think 'accountability'
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Here's an idea
Sharing best practice through peer audit schemes helped a London homelessness charity
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Full support
Housing minister Lord Rooker used his speech at the National Housing Federation annual conference to deny that a lack of government support had led to the failure of the Birmingham stock transfer. The government was “in favour of transfer, and that’s that,” he said. The minister also suggested he might ...
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Shelter has lost its edge, says founder
The social housing and homelessness charity Shelter has lost its campaigning edge, according to its founder Des Wilson
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Three London councils join landlord crackdown
Three councils in the East End of London have joined forces in a bid to tackle rogue private landlords
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Editor's comment
A gold medal must be on its way to the civil servant who came up with the name for Lord Rooker's new slug of money to help alleviate the housing crisis in the South.
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Race cohesion panel to publish indicators
The body set up to advise the housing sector on last year's race disturbances in Burnley is set to call for Community Cohesion Pathfinders.Darra Singh, Luton council chief and chair of the panel, told the conference that performance indicators to measure community cohesion would be published by the end of ...
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Spin City
Shepherd’s Bush Housing Association has opened a play house for tenants’ children on its Pearscroft Court development in Hammersmith, west London. The Sands End Play House will be occupied by youngsters’ charity SEAPIA, which will operate a drop-in centre for parents and toddlers.
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Sarah Webb to be CIH’s new policy director
Sarah Webb is to take over from John Perry as policy director at the Chartered Institute of Housing in March next year
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Camden gets three stars for housing management service
Camden Council has won the first three-star rating from the Audit Commission's Housing Inspectorate for a housing management service
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Lib Dems take soft stance on the right to buy
The Liberal Democrats shied away from demanding the suspension of the right to buy in high-demand areas at their annual conference this week
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Heads roll as Braunstone moves to save regeneration scheme
A New Deal for Communities programme has taken the unusual step of dropping its chief executive and head of development in a bid to get a £50m regeneration scheme back on schedule
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Boateng visits Irwell Valley to see gold service savings
The Chief secretary to the Treasury has visited the offices of Irwell Valley Housing Association with a view to adopting its gold service across the public sector
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Shopping incentives could boost housing benefit reform
"Shopping incentive" schemes for housing benefit could be piloted in the private sector, according to the civil servant who is reforming the housing benefit system
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West Hampstead HA back in profit 'in near future'
Genesis Housing Group has said the troubled West Hampstead Housing Association will return to profit “in the near future”
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ODPM poised to name Birmingham as first approved market renewal pathfinder
Birmingham's market renewal pathfinder looks set to be named the first of the nine pathfinders to have its plans approved