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Archive Titles£1.5m CCTV centre focuses on staff comfort too
CCTV specialist, Merit Li-Lin, has opened a brand new distribution centre in the heart of Milton Keynes. The £1.5 million design and build project took 30 weeks to complete and benefits from 20,000 sq ft of warehousing providing a potential stock of £7 million.
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Think Tank
Bottled gas dangerI'm concerned that some of our tenants are using bottled gas in their flats. I'm worried that there will be an explosion and I will be held liable. One of them has refused to get rid of the bottled gas because they have no other form of heating. ...
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Painstaking pitfalls
Louis Robert outlines how frustrating it can be when the law just seems to get in the way
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Archive TitlesUrban taskforce meets to kick-start renaissance Members of the urban regeneration taskforce
Urban taskforce meets to kick-start renaissance Members of the urban regeneration taskforce, chaired by Lord Rogers (above), are to meet tomorrow in a bid to kick-start the urban renaissance.One taskforce member told Housing Today that the talks would have an open agenda but they would be focusing on whether enough ...
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Irwell rewards top tenants
Irwell Valley Housing Association is to launch a “diamond service” to refresh its highly successful gold service incentives scheme.
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Here's an idea
Nottingham's befriending scheme gives practical and emotional aid to homeless people
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Grab a slice of involvement
Lynda Hance and Fola Ogunjobi on how you could share in £4m aimed at helping residents get involved in decisions about their housing
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Housing managers told to do more to police estates
The Law Commission has proposed that housing managers should take more responsibility for "policing" troubled estates to prevent an explosion in antisocial behaviour.
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Archive TitlesGreat estate
GREAT ESTATE: The Byker estate in Newcastle was named an English architectural treasure by the United Nations this week. Icomos-UK, the British branch of the UN body that lists and monitors world heritage sites, compiled the list of buildings that are worth protecting. It said Byker should be numbered among ...
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Archive TitlesErmine taskforce
The ceremonies and wigs may make the House of Lords look like an anachronism, but in the hands of Baroness Uddin of Bethnal Green it's being used as a powerful force to help the most vulnerable people in society.
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Archive TitlesDTI refuses to leave RSLs out of new insolvency law
Lending to housing associations in doubt as lenders budget for increased risk
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Regeneration 'will destroy many social landlords'
Housing association movement will not continue in present form, says leading academic
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Government moves to help decent homes drive
Extra £600m could be released as draft Local Government Bill falters on borrowing powers
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Councils unready for influx of tenants
Councils are not preparing for the future housing needs of thousands of people with learning disabilities.
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VAT concession deal enables transfer to go through
North British Housing Association has taken over 120 Sheffield council homes thanks to a groundbreaking VAT deal to lever in extra finance.
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Editor's Comment
So there was no early Christmas in the local Government Bill after all. Stephen Byers' hints that the government might extend councils' borrowing powers, and thereby allow them a viable alternative to stock transfer and arm's-length management, turned out to be as disillusioning as the man himself (see page 9).Disappointing ...
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Archive TitlesA cold day in Hull
Struggling with a £270m shortfall and riven by mudslinging, Hull council is facing the knockout blow: a possible Whitehall takeover of its housing service. Saba Salman asks: how did it come to this?
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The cheques files
The fraud is out there. Housing benefit cheats cost the UK more than £95m a year. But don't worry: agents are on the case. Mahua Chatterjee meets Newcastle's team of fraud officers and finds that although it's not glamorous, it works