All Archive Titles articles – Page 1168
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Archive TitlesHousing Corporation aims to take over council inspections
... or plans for a single inspection service could mean an independent body will be set up
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Study reveals affordable homes crisis across Europe
European housing ministers agree on the importance of planning and poverty issues
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Corus and Redrow set up £6m steel-frame housing venture
Steelmaker Corus has formed a £6m steel-frame business with housebuilder Redrow which will target the social housing sector.
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£500m pledged for market renewal in nine regions
The government is expected to allocate £500m over the next three years to fund housing market renewal in nine pathfinder areas. Its formal announcement today on the comprehensive spending review’s allocation for housing will include the pledge, it is believed.Brendan Nevin, senior research fellow at Birmingham University, welcomed the figure: ...
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Archive TitlesPressure group calls for 500 homes on Tube line site
Bishopsgate site could support housing without loss of historic arches, say locals
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Circle 33 bidding for two London PFI projects
Circle 33 Housing Trust is involved in bidding for two large London projects that are funded by the private finance initiative.
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2nd opinion: Embarrassing riches
Christian Wolmar says we should give more, and proudly
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Safety first
Initial Security Ltd has become the first business in its sector to win the coveted National Safety Award from the British Safety Council.The company won the award after proving that its health and safety record exceeded the industry average for 2001. The award maintains the company's commitment to health and ...
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Think Tank
How can they pay for care?I am dealing with the family of an 80-year-old widow of rapidly degenerating health. It is unsafe for her to live at home and her family wishes to put her into residential care. The lady and her husband took out a loan against their property ...
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Archive TitlesSuite success
Suite success: Liverpool council executive member for housing Richard Kemp (left) visited the city's Furniture Resource Centre to celebrate its 1000-client milestone. The centre makes and supplies furniture to social landlords across the country for tenants to rent. Liverpool has recently launched a campaign to attract tenants to its empty ...
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Archive TitlesWonder secretary
Wonder secretary: Lindsay Roberts (right), social housing secretary at Birmingham law firm Lee Crowder, has won the title of Secretary of the Year 2002 in an award sponsored by travel firm Red Letter Days. She was nominated by the firm's housing partner, Andy Ballard (left). Roberts has worked in the ...
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Archive TitlesRoyal revamp
Royal revamp: More than 500 apartments, including 88 affordable and key-worker homes, are to be built as part of an £80m regeneration scheme at the Royal Docks in east London.Hertfordshire-based Furlong Homes won approval from the London borough of Newham for the project, which will involve the renovation of a ...
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Archive TitlesRogers reconvenes urban taskforce to pressurise Prescott
Tackling the housing crisis should be the number one priority for urban regeneration
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United we're planned
The government is committed to devolving control to the regions but we need central coordination.
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Archive TitlesNew-look Newham
NEW-LOOK NEWHAM: Planning permission has been granted for this £25m mixed-use development near to Stratford town centre in the London borough of Newham. Burford Wharf, developed by Holon for architect and urban designer Stock Woolstencroft, will comprise 58 live/work units, 62 homes and a commercial element. Twenty-one of those homes ...
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Monthly Market trends
The pound is at a long-term low. Jittery financial markets getting close to the summer recess helped convince the Treasury's monetary policy committee not to raise the interest rate for July, but to keep it at its current 4%.
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Northern Ireland tensions threaten projects
Relations between Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland have worsened over the past five years, and tensions threaten to undermine regeneration work unless they are addressed.
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Archive TitlesHow to save the planet
Richard Baines talks about getting eco-friendly the Black Country way
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Women in housing
‘Men in the industry who I’ve never met before often assume I’m the secretary. It’s frustrating. it’s always a battle’. Why are there so few women in the top housing sector jobs?