All Building articles in Archive Titles – Page 969
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What does it all mean?
I am a social housing tenant in Birmingham. Along with the chairs of all housing associations and many others, I have been asked to respond to a Housing Corporation consultation paper entitled Involvement Policy. I wonder if others can help me to understand a statement in the paper. It says: ...
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Archive TitlesThanks for the £89m but green spaces need more, says ODPM select committee
The government must spend more on promoting the UK's green spaces, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's select committee has warned.
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2nd opinion: The garden city geezer
Ebenezer Howard's vision of the garden city has a lot to teach the Communities Plan.
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Destiny™-IP - Sophisticated IP Network CCTV Solutions
Baxall Limited's Video Networks Division is a leading light within the security industry, boasting the innovative and award winning Destiny™-IP range.
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Off target
It's a universal gripe among workers in the public sector: "We spend more time filling in forms than teaching, nursing or catching criminals." So they will welcome this week's report from an influential Commons committee declaring that central pressure to meet targets is threatening the quality of services. This sentiment ...
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Public & Private
For regeneration to work, public-private contracts must share risks.
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Archive TitlesHove into view
HOVE INTO VIEW: This futuristic design by architect Frank Gehry has been recommended to councillors in charge of redeveloping Hove's King Alfred site. The four towers would include 438 flats, 175 of which would be social housing. Developing the former car park and sports centre would cost £200m. Councillors will ...
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Archive TitlesHill on the houses
He enjoys being told he looks like a furry green duck; he loves cubist art; he used to be junior transport minister but does not know how to drive a car. Stuart Macdonald enters the world of housing minister Keith Hill.
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Here's an idea
Film your regeneration masterplanning meetings and show them to tenants via the internet
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Treasury's low-cost savings schemes 'won't help poor'
New government-approved savings products will not help people on low incomes, anti-poverty campaigners have warned.
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Archive TitlesNew Hacas owner unveils strategy for growth
Henry Pitman, the new owner of Hacas Chapman Hendy, has revealed a bold new direction for the housing consultant.
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Golden newie
I refer to the item in Social animal "Gold! Always believe in your soul..." (11 July, page 21). The song Irwell Valley was written by Amanda who works for us. She wrote the lyrics and music and produced the track herself because she believes in what we do.I bet you ...
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Starter homes going great
The casual reader of Housing Today may conclude from the recent article on the starter homes initiative that it doesn't work ("Low take-up may force landlord to hand back key worker cash", 11 July page 9).This is not the case. All of Knightstone's allocation for teachers has now been taken ...
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Northern repair grants rise at South's expense
Millions of pounds in government repairs grants are set to move from London to Northern towns under radical new proposals.
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Mixed messages as lines are drawn in grant feud
Minister moves closer to paying social housing grant to builders as MPs say: don't do it
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Archive TitlesGold diggers
In March, the idea of giving social housing grant directly to housebuilders was just a few paragraphs at the end of a consultation paper. Today, it's one of the hottest arguments raging in the sector. James Hughes met both sides.
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Liverpool's Somalis living in deprivation
Elderly Somalis living in Liverpool's Granby district suffer from disproportionate levels of deprivation, an Economic and Social Research Council report has found.