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Challenge Fund winners get pick of English Partnerships' sites
The 34 successful bidders for last year's 拢300m Challenge Fund are to get first bite at the sites and cash to be unveiled shortly by the Housing Partnership – the joint venture between English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation.
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Grand Central
GRAND CENTRAL: Ujima and Notting Hill Housing Trust have taken delivery of 49 affordable flats in this luxury development in Westminster, central London. The flats – 16 shared ownership units for Notting Hill and 33 rented units for Ujima – are part of the 207-unit Regency Apartments scheme on the ...
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Diverse case scenario
Housing associations don't just build to rent any more. As revealed in these figures, compiled by Housing Today and the National Housing Federation, more and more are moving into shared ownership.
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Cumbria calls for homes in national parks
The cumbria strategic Partnership has advised the government to build affordable housing and second homes on designated sites in national parks.
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Who are you calling racist?
The opinions expressed in "Do you really need to evict that racist?" (13 June, page 51) are cause for serious concern.
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Buyers beware
Tenants using the right to buy at times of regeneration can extract huge sums from landlords and make a tidy profit. But the legal net is closing 鈥�
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Archive TitlesPaid board members will have their benefits cut, despite pressure from Corporation
A last-minute bid by the Housing Corporation to persuade the government not to cut housing benefits to paid association board members has failed.
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Archive TitlesHendon hasn't been won over
Your article "Too posh for dosh" poses several questions (6 June, page 30).
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Outsourcing works best in batches
Outsourcing of housing benefit processing works better in councils where other services – such as council tax and computer departments – have also been outsourced, a report for the Department for Work and Pensions has found. The report, by IRRV Solutions and Iris Consulting, was launched last Thursday at the ...
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Archive TitlesBack to the future
It has taken Thamesmead 35 years to recover from the misconceptions and misguided idealism that surrounded its creation in the 1960s. Does its blighted history and hopeful regeneration have lessons for the Gateway?
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Northern Counties lambasts 'unbalanced' audit
Northern Counties housing Association has hit back at an Audit Commission report that said there was scope for improvement in the association's service delivery.
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Legal costs of asylum seekers hit councils
Councils have expressed fears that the legal costs of judicial reviews and appeals related to the Nationality and Immigration Act 2002 are spiralling out of control.
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Thames Gateway regional assemblies demand talks with Prescott
Planning chiefs in the three regional assemblies of the Thames Gateway have demanded an urgent meeting with John Prescott.
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Archive TitlesCouncils get tough on antisocial homeowners
Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Middlesbrough and Gateshead take fight to private sector
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Another point to the triangle
I refer to Steve Phillips' article on the recent Charlton Triangle Homes arbitration case (13 June, page 49).
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CIH calls for another strategic plan
The Chartered Institute of Housing has called on councils to draw up another strategic plan to ensure that housing policy fits in with local planning aims.
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Archive TitlesSecond homes almost outnumber social housing in North Cornwall
South-west's regional housing strategy blamed for skewing investment priorities
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Big London associations fight back against threat from developers
London's largest developing housing associations are to fight back against government efforts to pay development grant to private housebuilders, writes Mark Beveridge.