All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1051
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Archive TitlesThink tank
This week and next, THINK TANK focuses on Supporting People, the new funding regime for support services that comes into effect from 1 April. Over the next three pages, a special team of experts answers your questions
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The midlands: the issues
Your item on the implications of the Communities Plan ("The Verdict", 14 February, page 16) was interesting. The key issue for those of us in the South Midlands and Milton Keynes area is how to accommodate a significant increase in the size of the housing stock and achieve the infrastructure ...
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RTB: wrong impressions
The ODPM figures on right-to-buy sales released last week (21 February, page 10) are interesting but do not reflect the current position in London. As right-to-buy sales can take years to complete, figures for completions do not give an accurate picture of current interest. A more precise picture can be ...
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Here's an idea
Energy brokers can mean more money for you and smaller bills for residents
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How green is my valley
How green is my valley: Work has been completed on Tai Trothwy housing association’s innovative foyer in Llanelli, south Wales. Roughly 200 m2 of photovoltaic panels will help provide electricity for the 12 young people that are expected to move into the accommodation by the end of March. The development ...
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Archive TitlesThe enforcers
When it's time to put the government's tough stance on nuisance neighbours into action, who you gonna call? The head of the country's most successful antisocial behaviour strategy squad told Saba Salman the secret of his team's success.
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Life at the sharp end
If you're a social housing provider, everyone's a critic. Here's how to fight back
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Wealth and efficiency
Wealth and efficiency: Swaythling Housing Society's eco-homes are designed to be a blueprint for future energy-efficient homes in Southampton. The houses include passive solar design to maximise the potential for solar power and pre-assembled, insulated, timber panels for walls and floors.
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Payment decision is not ‘hasty’
I totally disagree with the views of Robert Appleyard, chairman of London & Quadrant Housing Trust, in the correspondence columns of your latest number (21 February, page 22). It cannot be said too often that there will be no compulsion on housing associations to introduce a payment regime if they ...
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Prescott refuses to set Communities Plan timetable
Ministers were quizzed on Tuesday by a Commons select committee over the timetable for the Communities Plan.
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Communities Plan: where the money will go
The abolition of the annual £550m local authority social housing grant will result in other key areas of government investment boosted instead.
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Editor's comment
Housing Associations are being set more hoops to jump through this week. In return for their grant, associations may soon have to demonstrate their commitment to better housing design. They'll be asked to nominate "design champions" – people whose job is to ensure design criteria are high on the agenda ...
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Islamic mortgages' stamp duty loophole set to be closed
An anomaly that led to stamp duty being paid twice on mortgages that comply with Islamic law could be fixed in July's Finance Bill.
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Clay’s Lane rapped for unauthorised payments
More “serious concerns” have come to light about Clay’s Lane Housing Cooperative.
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'Design champions' to be a condition of development grants
In-house design watchdogs may be required by Housing Corporation from next year
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The high price of care that should be free
We all say things we later come to regret. Leading politicians, though, are unlucky enough to have microphones and cameras on hand to record their foot-in-mouth moments for posterity.
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Archive TitlesHousing Corporation calls in private detective for leak probe
Source of IT contract memo leak will be dismissed without notice