All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 1394
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Making B1 A1
Britain s second city aims to be the first to stage-manage the residential developer s role in urban regeneration. Josephine Smit reports from a seminar on the City council s imminent urban design guide and its focus on quality and sustainability.
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Training for the Millennium
Delegates from as far afield as Hong Kong, South Africa and pakistan attended SITO'S annual conference which boasted an impressive line-up of industry speakers ...
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Current Affairs - Our right to reject scruffs
Do you think we tend to go "over the top" too much nowadays? For some years now I have been convinced that I am fighting a real battle in our trade. Let me give you an example: A few weeks ago I attended a D32/D33 training class and the discussion ...
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1851 SITO/City & Guilds masterclass [part 24] - Servicing & maintenance
Our popular series on the 1851 SITO/City & Guilds qualification, which we ran from December 96 to December 97 was a commentary on the first two modules in this off-the-job learning programme. It covered Module 1 (Electrical & System Principles) and Module 2 (Intruder Alarm Systems). In this continuation of ...
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Overhanging debt settled as huge transfer is secured
The largest transfer of a council's housing stock to date has secured a tenant yes vote, as the government was set to announce a resolution to the problem of overhanging debt
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Shake-up could signal changes for corporation
Agency will regulate all social landlords
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'Continuum of care' key to cutting rough sleeping
Rough sleepers are to be encouraged to find work as part of a government strategy to cut street sleeping
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Survey finds LAs lagging behind on participation
One in five councils are still "reluctant to implement" the new tenants compacts just a few months before they are due to come into force, according to government research. Councils are required to secure tenant agreement on their compacts by next April, but official research published this week found that ...
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Housing management allowance freeze lifted
Council protests have forced a government U-turn on plans to freeze housing department's management allowances
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The way to fair rents
What options are available to the government for rent reform in social housing? And what are the consequences for tenants and the public purse? Shane Brownie, Paul Lautman, Sam Lister map the way ahead
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North-south divide does exist
Corporation study of low demand undermines Blair's view
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Cutting crime and homelessness
Ex-offenders have a fair chance of ending up on the streets. And few people want to live next door to them. Housing Today reports on the dilemmas of housing people with criminal records
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Transfer HA is first to receive a credit rating
A stock transfer housing association has been judged a better investment risk than well known companies like B Sky B and Stagecoach
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Extending Right to Buy 'misguided and dangerous'
A series of radical changes to the future of social housing tenancies in Scotland prompted uproar this week, amid fears they will leave thousands homeless
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Rough Sleepers Unit ask more move-on properties
Social housing providers are to face sustained pressure from Louise Casey's rough sleepers unit to do more to get rough sleepers indoors
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Funding boost increases investment programme by 50%
Councils across England this week began to reap the real benefits of the government's £5 billion capital receipts initiative as housing investment rocketed across the country
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Market-value rents will push more into poverty
Government is running the risk of creating more social exclusion for tenants if it proceeds with linking rents to capital values
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The long journey
From Norman Tebbit's cricket test to the current fashion for bindis, the Asian community in Britain has seen many changes over the last 15 years. Housing Today reflects on how one social landlord has moved with the times
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Is it time for a new job?
If housing associations are like teenagers growing up fast, where does that leave their nanny, the Housing Corporation? Housing Today says its time for a wider vision of the regulator's role