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Leap in London housing demand

10 September 2004

Housing demand in London will become even more intense, according to figures released this week.

Northern Way 'needs more Whitehall teamwork'

10 September 2004

Unprecedented collaboration between Whitehall departments is needed if a high-profile strategy designed to boost the North's economy is to work, an unpublished report commissioned by the Government says.

Stop Press: Housing scheme scoopes prize

10 September 2004

A housing scheme on the site of a former school in Fulham, south-west London scooped the prize for best example of affordable housing at this week's Housing Design Awards. The Peabody Trust's Beaufort House topped the Housing Corporation-sponsored category, which also featured Southern Housing Group's Gainsborough Studios in Hackney and the Notting Hill Housing Trust's Edward Woods Estate. The overall winner was Copthorne Homes' Abode development in Essex. Visit www.housingcorp.gov.uk.

Stop Press: Housing Corporation announces £15 million of grants

10 September 2004

Government regulatory body the Housing Corporation this week announced £15 million of grants to help ten specialist black and minority ethnic housing associations to restructure rents in line with government policy. The ODPM made £15 million available in recognition of the particular problems that some BME associations would face, based on research carried out by the department and the corporation. See Physical Regeneration, p11.

Quotes of the week

10 September 2004

"The annual spend on parks and green spaces in the UK is only a third more than the NHS spends every year prescribing Prozac. What can you do with pills that you can't do by putting people into really good parks?" - Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment commissioner Alan Barber speaking at an Urban Parks Forum conference on green spaces.

East End city academy set to open its doors

10 September 2004

Schoolchildren in a deprived part of east London will next week begin the first ever term at a City Academy designed by architect Lord Rogers.

Volunteers 'need far more council cash'

10 September 2004

England's councils for voluntary service (CVS) suffer from a severe lack of local authority funding, it was claimed this week.

ODPM: council homes will not be privatised

10 September 2004

The ODPM has denied reports it is considering transferring council homes run by Arms Length Management Organisations to private ownership as part of its review of ALMOs' structure and role.

Cut quangos and push people power, says LGA

10 September 2004

A "bonfire of quangos" is needed to improve public services and devolve power to local people, the leader of the Local Government Association said this week.

Hadrian's Wall vision

10 September 2004

The number of visitors to Hadrian's Wall could rise to more than one million a year if proposals to boost tourist numbers and spending in the North-East and Cumbria goes ahead. An independent year-long study that assessed the potential of the tourist attraction produced a vision for Hadrian's Wall with goals including the construction of a Greatest Roman Frontier story centre. The project, headed by regional development agencies One-North East and the North-West Development Agency, calculated that an investment programme of around £56 million over ten years was needed to boost annual visitor numbers to more than one million. The Major Study of Hadrian's Wall is available at www.nwda.co.uk.