The announcement in the 2012 Budget that, “further measures to deregulate and simplify the planning system [will be] introduced” was swiftly followed by the publication of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) which reduced more than 1,000 pages of planning guidance to around 50 pages. The changes, which have been welcomed by the National Housing…
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JMC completes £2m contract to merge Arena and Harvest
JMC IT has just completed a two-phase, 18-month project for the merger of Manchester’s Harvest Housing Group and Liverpool’s Arena Housing Group to form Your Housing Group. The new group will now own and manage around 32,000 properties in the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands. Salford-based JMC originally won the initial £600,000 tender against…
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Sovereign’s £120,000 virtual infrastructure
Blue Chip has reported that it completed the implementation last year of a VMware-based virtual infrastructure at Sovereign Housing Association, with the project costing around £120,000 and taking five weeks to complete. The new virtual infrastructure replaced Sovereign’s previous system which lacked the scalability, flexibility and resilience to cope with the demands of its 1,000-strong…
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Delivering shared services in practice
At the recent Housing Technology conference in Birmingham, Sovereign Business Integration Group hosted an interactive seminar to discuss the shared services experiences of a number of companies. This article highlights some of the key points raised in the panel discussion which was hosted by James Threapleton, Sovereign’s director of housing. While many organisations have explored…
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Guardian 24 lone worker system now on Android
Guardian24 has recently launched an Android version of its lone and mobile worker safety application, following the success of its original Blackberry-based version which is now used by over 33,500 lone and mobile workers. The Guardian24 application lets users log their whereabouts and daily tasks, send GPS locations, raise alerts, and summon emergency help via…
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City Response triples repairs & maintenance with InterNETalia
City Response, a housing repairs and maintenance contractor owned by Guinness Northern Counties, has tripled the number of responsive repairs completed each year using AccuServ software from InterNETalia, with 60,000 repairs now carried out per year as well as refurbishing 2,500 voids in the last 12 months. City Response’s previous paper-based job control sheets for…
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