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How to … Draw up a business plan
Dermot Macroberts on how a decent plan can be a powerful tool
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Inspections in brief
One star for ElmbridgeThe housing register and housing advice service at Elmbridge Council, in Surrey, has received a one-star rating from the Audit Commission's housing inspectorate.The services have excellent prospects for improvement, the commission said. Lead housing inspector Jacqueline Canham said quality of service had improved in the last year, ...
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Volunteer HA boards are a 'recipe for disaster'
Moat Housing chief executive John Barker has warned that volunteer housing association boards are steering the sector towards disaster.
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Northerners plan to share benefit services
Three northern councils are working out plans to create a single housing benefit service.
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Don't use benefit as a weapon, gang of four tells Wicks
Major housing groups say proposals to stop benefit to antisocial tenants are misguided
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PFI is being treated unfairly, says housing consultant
housing consultant Graham Moody has attacked the government for not giving the private finance initiative for council housing enough support.
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Commission wants more associationsto check tenants' benefit claims
The Audit Commission wants more housing associations around the country to take up the system of checking housing benefit claims themselves.
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Sigh of relief from service providers as Supporting People guidance arrives
guidance on how to deal with the separation of care and support costs from rent will be published this week – to the great relief of the supported housing sector.
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Archive TitlesWhere did all the idealists go?
Social housing used to be a sector at the heart of the battle for social justice, packed with campaigners, pioneers, dreamers and believers. The ideals are as important as ever – but where are the idealists? Saba Salman found out.
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Our big chance to fix ailing housing markets for good
After the report of the empty homes select committee and the start of an urban affairs subcommittee inquiry into affordable housing, one could be forgiven for thinking that housing had only just been discovered on the political agenda.
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Archive TitlesHull fights back after Audit Commission drubbing
Labour Group accuses commission of meddling in politics and oversimplistic reasoning
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Expert panel set up to advise housing sector on social cohesion
An expert group of housing practitioners is to advise the sector on social cohesion in the wake of last year's race disturbances.
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Councils told not to panic about European regeneration cash
Councils should not rush to spend European regeneration cash, Liverpool Council has warned.Executive member for housing Richard Kemp said community consultation must take precedence over hitting deadlines. He spoke out after it emerged that South Yorkshire was trailing on spending £80m of Objective 1 cash earmarked for community regeneration.Last month, ...
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Union pay demands 'would cost London taxpayers £600m'
public sector trade union pay demands would cost Londoners an extra £210 each in council tax, the Association of London Government warned this week.
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300 more crime-fighters to hit the streets
The government has pledged an extra £22.5m to fund 300 more street wardens in 10 crime hotspots across England.
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Archive TitlesPower struggle over £3.7m scheme plunges London's planning system into confusion
London mayor Ken Livingstone has clashed with government planners over a £3.7m development in south-west London, writes Stuart Macdonald.The Greater London Authority and the Government Office for London have been flexing their respective planning muscles over a regeneration scheme in Merton, south-west London.The redevelopment of Merton Abbey Mills was called ...
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Think Tank
Unravelling the terms of successionI have an assured tenancy where the mother has died and the son is saying he has rights to succeed to the tenancy. However, according to the tenancy agreement, a succession took place some years ago when the mother's husband died. Can the son succeed if ...