All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1059
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Archive TitlesIt's wicks who must 'get real' on bad behaviour
Malcolm wicks MP's diatribe on the way the housing sector deals with nuisance neighbours ("'Get real' on unruly tenants, demands Wicks", 30 January, page 7) seems to say more about Wicks than it does about the attitude of social landlords to tackling nuisance and antisocial behaviour.
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Fear of prefab holds us back
I fully support the dismay of Guinness Trust chief executive Simon Dow following the report of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister select committee into affordable housing ("Stop using prefab – it's not the answer, says select committee", 7 February, page 15). The struggle to get modern construction techniques ...
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Local authority 'deficiencies' putting housing benefit fraud targets at risk
Councils must work together more effectively if the Department for Work and Pensions is to meet its housing benefit fraud reduction targets, according to parliament's public spending watchdog, writes Chloe Stothart.
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Comprehensive performance assessment to include planning
Inspection could include separate score for performance on housing market issues
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ODPM frees council cash to fund new ALMO rounds
Third and fourth rounds near certain as accounting trick releases £750m
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Council alarm as number of homeless refugees soars in UK cities
The number of former asylum seekers presenting themselves as homeless in cities across the UK has soared in some instances and has prompted the government to demand tighter monitoring, writes Stuart Macdonald.
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Start off in neutral, then move ahead at speed
A tenant attacked by a neighbour has the right to timely and impartial support from its landlord
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Government adviser: URCs may get more powers
Urban regeneration companies are key in the creation of sustainable communties and may be granted more powers, according to the government's leading urban policy adviser.
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Archive Titles'If you make people laugh, you can achieve quite a lot'
Making people laugh by telling them their wages would be late? They didn't laugh – which was the point: to make them think about who was paying those wages. For all his showmanship and controversy, that's Irwell Valley chief Tom Manion's only goal: putting the customer first.
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Hull spends £92m to refurbish homes – then knocks them down
Market renewal scheme seals fate of properties in council's low-demand areas
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Archive TitlesU o £££: Fife cncl uses txts 4 rent rrs
A pilot scheme to send rent arrears reminders by text message has achieved better results than those normally achieved by postal reminders.
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Is BACnet a step forward?
Recently ASHRAE announced that the BACnet protocol has been approved as a standard both for ISO and CEN. Standard 135 will be published as international standard ISO 16484-5 and as European standard EN/ISO 16484-5. What is the significance of this announcement - and will it make integration of ...
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Think tank
Should we tolerate this trespasser?We have a tenant who has become a tolerated trespasser by virtue of the fact that she has not complied with the terms of a suspended court order. The tenant has requested the right to buy, but it was refused due to the above and the ...
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Stresses... and strains
Too much stress in the workplace can lead to prolonged illness and staff churn. By law, it's the employer's duty to make sure that all members of staff – security officers and supervisors included – are not made ill by their work. In the last of our mini series on ...
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Archive TitlesSet in Stone
As managing director of the BSB Group, Mike Bluestone presides over an award-winning consultancy that, in the space of six short years, has shot up from being a 'one man band'-style operation to a respected multi-disciplinary affair combining forensics, training and fraud management with general security advice. How did such ...
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Archive TitlesSoft sell
Employing over 6,000 people and boasting 320 retail tenants, the MetroCentre in Gateshead is one of Europe's largest and most impressive covered shopping malls. A safe and secure shopping environment is paramount, which is why Centre security manager Terry Atkinson wanted an integrated security solution. Contractor St James Security has ...
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Working to rule?
There are many private sector practitioners who fear that the removal of the current derogations from the Working Time Regulations – pencilled-in for this coming October – will have serious consequences for both security companies and their clients. We examine why a 48-hour working week and eight-hour shift patterns would ...