All Archive Titles articles – Page 1195
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T Clarke acquires two more firms
T Clarke has purchased two electrical contracting companies in quick succession to add to its regional portfolio.
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Egan forum accelerates change
The Strategic Forum for Construction has launched a consultation paper Accelerating change. The document highlights ways to further implement the guidelines laid down in Sir John Egan's Rethinking construction.
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ABB to sell contracting arm…
The Swiss-Swedish engineering conglomerate is to sell its m&e contracting division. The move is part of the firm's strategy to recoup billions of dollars of debt before the end of 2002.
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Archive TitlesNew look for Housing Today
Housing Today is to relaunch tomorrow in a hard-hitting A4 magazine format. It will cover even more areas of interest to the social housing sector.The magazine will grow from an average of 20 editorial pages to over 30 every week.The circulation has also been increased to 30,000 to cover a ...
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Archive TitlesSeeing it for real, virtually
Tenants can see what sort of homes they are really letting themselves in for with 3D models and, in the process, play a greater role in regeneration.
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Archive TitlesPlug-in power
Technology should be used to empower tenants, not just give them information.
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Pensions Stock-take
IntroductionPension mis-selling, the indifferent take-up of stakeholder pensions, poor returns when people retire from their jobs and have to buy an annuity with their pension 'pot' are all common stories in the personal finance pages of the broadsheets and some of the tabloids. But an issue which is very technical ...
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Archive TitlesStarting over
Ageing systems can work out to be expensive and inefficient. Nick Fowler describes why one council decided to overhaul its benefits system
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Raynsford rules out 'two tier' workforce
Trade union fears that newcomers in transfer organisations will be on worse terms than existing staff have proved a stumbling block to best value, the government has admitted.Local government minister Nick Raynsford said that fairness in staff terms and conditions was a key issue. New safeguards thrashed out by the ...
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Archive TitlesSorting it out
SORTING IT OUT: Tenant board members of Midland Area Housing Association have organised a series of meetings to give the RSL’s residents a chance to have their say. Handsworth tenant George Gordon, who sits on Midland Area’s board, said the meetings gave an opportunity to make progress in resolving issues ...
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New name for troubled RSL
The troubled West Hampstead Housing Association is to be renamed by its new owner, the Genesis Housing Group.
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On the move
June Barnes (left) has been appointed to the London Sustainable Development Commission as one of four social sector commissioners. June will help to deliver mayor Ken Livingstone's objective to improve Londoners' quality of life. She is chief executive of East Thames Housing Group.Chris Root joins the Housing Corporation as equality ...
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New targets for Lothian
Edinburgh council has launched a housing strategy which includes plans for an extra 9,000 affordable homes.
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Landlords' needless possession orders traumatise tenants
Social landlords are causing tenants needless anxiety by taking out possession orders when housing benefit payments are delayed, even when they do not intend to carry out evictions.
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Lancaster praise from peers
Lancaster council has won praise for its good service and dedicated staff in a review of sheltered housing.
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Prefab homes to be recycled
Homes could end up being dismantled and reused after 10 years, under a new housing association scheme to provide prefabricated homes for short-term rent on brownfield sites in London.
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HATs off to quango
Regeneration quango English Partnerships this week took over the management responsibilities of the Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust, which shut down on 30 April.
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North west homes halt
Housebuilding in the north west should be cut by 15 per cent to boost inner city regeneration, the government said this week.
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Archive TitlesIn the frame
IN THE FRAME: Midlands-based Heantun Housing Association has started work on an innovative £2.5m housing and training scheme in the Old Hall Street area of Wolverhampton. The development, which will eventually be faced in copper, will incorporate 30 self-contained flats for rent to local young people and training facilities. Heantun’s ...
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Prices worry first-timers
Mortgage lending reached record levels in 2001, fuelled by a buoyant housing market, said the Council of Mortgage Lenders in its annual report, published last week.