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Archive TitlesHouse float
House float: Architect Tim Pyne reckons his floating "m-house" is the solution to spiralling house prices and land shortages. The m-house – which is legally classed as a caravan – costs about £145,000. A flat of the same size in London Docklands would cost around £445,000. Glasgow council is understood ...
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Archive TitlesFriendly fire
It might sound as if you should be afraid of the chief inspector of the Social Services Inspectorate, but, says Elaine Knutt, Denise Platt has a down to earth, approachable style and a burning desire to keep in touch.
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Why is everyone picking on key workers?
How many rich teachers and nurses do you know? Don't worry, it's a rhetorical question. I only ask because of the amount of criticism the starter home initiative has attracted recently.
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Environment minister hits out at South-east emphasis
the environment minister has attacked his own government's planning policy.
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Move to speed up PFI 'on the edge of what is legal'
The latest government move to speed up the ailing £760m private finance initiative in housing could be illegal because it goes against competition laws.
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How to … Cut red tape
Devote a month to cutting red tape and see the benefits in no time.
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Shaftesbury gets credit rating
Shaftesbury Housing Group has become the second registered social landlord to be publicly awarded a credit rating.
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Archive TitlesCouncils forced to slash repairs to stay solvent
Housing Revenue Account crisis will scupper plans to meet government's decent homes targets
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Another week, another threat to the decent homes target. As if the recent catalogue of failed stock transfers were not enough to scupper any chance of meeting the 2010 goal, now potentially insolvent housing revenue accounts are posing an additional challenge to the government's ambitious aims (see page 7).In some ...
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Councils and HAs hail success of choice-based letting scheme
Five councils and three housing associations are celebrating the success of their choice-based lettings scheme in West London.
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Freedom of choice
Arm's-length or in-house management: the options are there, but which one's right for you?
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Lancashire faces legal challenge from its own district councils
District councils in Lancashire have joined forces to threaten a legal challenge to their county council's plans to close 32 of 48 care homes.
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Castle Vale HAT work makes residents live seven years longer
The work of Castle Vale Housing Action Trust in Birmingham has added seven years to the average resident's lifespan.
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Right-to-buy scare triggers panic buying of council homes
Surge in applications as Scottish council tenants misunderstand next month's rule changes
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Archive TitlesDon't blame us for nuisance tenants, landlords' group tells Rooker
Social landlords' representatives have written to housing minister Lord Rooker telling him not to play a "blame game" when it comes to antisocial behaviour.
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Barking & Dagenham tackles homelessness with new hostels
Barking & Dagenham council has given the go-ahead to plans for new homeless people's accommodation in a bid to cut the use of bed and breakfast hotels.Housing will be demolished to make way for two hostels in the London borough, expected to accommodate more than 100 people. And two sheltered ...
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Welsh council fights bad landlords with registration scheme
A North Wales council is set to launch a tenant registration scheme in one of its poorest areas, in a bid to stop rogue landlords.
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Arsenal scheme heralds change in Housing Corporation investment strategy
The Housing Corporation is to change its investment strategy in a further attempt to squeeze more social housing from large developments.
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Northern Ireland HAs fear right-to-buy rule will apply to them
Housing associations in Northern Ireland have voiced fears that new right-to-buy regulations for Housing Executive properties will apply to them, reducing their stock and rental income.