All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1153
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Archive TitlesElgin marvels
Elgin marvels: Housing Corporation chief executive Norman Perry talks to Walterton and Elgin Community Homes tenant Jenan Sultan and her daughter Yasmin at the unveiling of a plaque to celebrate the tenant group's 10th anniversary and the refurbishment of its 322nd home. In 1992, WECH was the first tenant group ...
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Archive Titles'Do I think I'm nice? Of course I do!'
Ever ready with a quip or the offer of a toilet, shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin is not your stereotypical Tory. So what does the compassionate Conservative have in mind for the inner cities?
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Subsidy for councils
Councils struggling to attract private developers to regeneration areas are to be helped by a new subsidy
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Archive TitlesRooker: corporation's future is secure
Moves to create a single housing inspector and give regional assemblies the power to allocate development funds will not mean the end of the Housing Corporation, housing minister Lord Rooker stressed last week
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Sheffield pushes for single regeneration company
Two options proposed for body that would work with public and private sectors
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Editor's comment
You had us all fooled, Mr Prescott. Here we were, expecting to be given a full breakdown of how you'd be spending Mr Brown's money. In the event, the detail we got was so scanty it would barely fill the back of an envelope. The deputy prime minister has rejected ...
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Midlands HA links homes to college
A Midlands association plans what it claims is the first housing scheme to be physically linked to a college or training centre
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Chorlton and the Greenies
Irwell Valley Housing Association kept the environment in mind when it built these 27 homes overlooking Chorlton Park, Manchester. Architect Stephenson Bell designed the development, which used high insulation and energy conservation technology. The wood for the balconies came from wind-damaged forests in France. The scheme, on the site of ...
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Two councils move to choice-based letting
Two councils have introduced choice-based lettings systems which they hope will make allocating housing quicker and easier for tenants to understand
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Prescott's changes won't help housing crisis, say planners
Register of publicly held land is 'nothing new' and 'questions remain' over resources
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Rooker hints that the end is nigh for right to buy
Right to buy could be scrapped, housing minister Lord Rooker hinted at the Labour Party's rural conference last week
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Diversification will bring you crippling debts, RSLs warned
Report tells associations their strength is stability and service expansion is risky
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Inspections in brief
Davis is shadow deputy PMFormer Conservative Party chair David Davis has been appointed as deputy prime minister John Prescott's shadow.Davis will work on housing, planning and regeneration issues with Tory housing spokesman Eric Pickles. Theresa May, who was shadow DTLR minister until the resignation of Stephen Byers, takes over as ...
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Frank Field's benefits bill runs out of House of Commons time
Frank Field's controversial bill to withdraw benefits from antisocial tenants has failed in the House of Commons
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DWP to investigate the outsourcing of benefits
The Department of Work and Pensions has ordered a study of the outsourcing of housing benefit to private contractors
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When pensioners attack
When does a difference of opinion become antisocial behaviour? Our contributor has seen both
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Council workers plan another national strike in August
The Council worker strikes that delayed non-urgent housing repairs and closed council offices across England, Wales and Northern Ireland last week are set to be repeated next month