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The key to regeneration by Alan Townshend (January 2016)
Alan Townshend, Group Development Director, comments on David Cameron’s announcement to regenerate ‘sink estates’ by knocking them down and rebuilding with £140m investment. Read more
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Taking a refreshed approach to Development by Alan Townshend (September 2015)
Wimbledon has been and gone, victory was sealed at the Ashes, the tube strikes are hopefully behind us and the weather seems to be back to normal. If all that wasn’t enough to excite us our Development team has been cooking up its own recipe of sizzling news for the summer. Read more
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Southern Space and the profit conundrum by Dale Meredith (May 2015)
May 2015 was the 10th anniversary of Southern Space Limited. When we set it up in 2005 it was a fairly unusual organisation, a commercial ‘for profit’ company owned and run by a charity established over 100 years before. Read more
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How do you engage your employees in business strategy? by Kate Smith (April 2015)
Almost every business leader will tell you it’s important to engage employees in the strategy of a business, but how often do we actually do this? Read more
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Mutual exchange – An under-used option for social tenants by Chris Harris (March 2015)
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has recently concluded that not enough tenants are aware of the mutual exchange scheme and, as such, it is encouraging landlords to understand the benefits and be more proactive in promoting the scheme. Read more
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Knock it down or do it up? by Dale Meredith (Feb 2015)
In light of last week’s report from the GLA on the challenge of estate regeneration, I’ve been giving some thought to how we at Southern Housing Group ended up with different solutions to what, on the face of it, could be seen as similar estate renewal problems. Read more
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Affordable Rent by Tom Dacey (Jan 2015)
Now that the Government has confirmed that the Affordable Rent (AR) programme will be extended from 2018 to 2020, it seems timely to review the outcomes of our AR programme since its introduction in 2011. Read More
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