All Letters articles – Page 38

  • Comment

    It's simple really

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    To meet the BSF programme, we need to respond to the current financial environment

  • Comment

    Local difficulty

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Your correspondents, Patrick Cooper and Sally Hughes, do not want the John Roan School to move to a new site on the Greenwich Peninsula as part of the ڶ Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. They are perfectly entitled to their views, although I do not myself agree with them.

  • Should London boroughs such as Hackney ‘take a lead on the type of housing that is delivered in their area’?
    Comment

    The choice is theirs

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    In response to your article on the Greater London Authority’s housing targets ("London council in crisis talks over affordable homes target,"), the GLA’s approach is based on realism and focuses on working closely with local councils

  • Comment

    Black mark

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    In response to Mr Forlane (19 December), the Construction Skills Register (CSR) would like to make readers aware that the Black CSR card (as it is known in Northern Ireland) is not as easily acquired as he suggests

  • Quasimodo’s right to work in this country is now under investigation... “Fathers for Justice” say they should have won the tender to be able support their families
    Comment

    The bells...

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Regarding the picture published on 6 February

  • Comment

    Bamboozled by banks

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Several articles in ڶ mention the fact that most building companies have, or are about to, breach some of their banking covenants

  • The Moyo House nutritional rehabilitation unit in Malawi: an exceptional project in a country riven by HIV
    Comment

    Sterling work

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    I am a Malawian currently studying in the UK. I appreciate Unicef’s work but this project is exceptional and must be commended

  • Comment

    A message for the union

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    I have been a member of Ucatt for many years and though you [Ucatt] are good at representing the workforce on legal matters you are very poor at representing the British workforce on ethnic matters

  • Comment

    A problem of our making

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Regarding the controversy over Staythorpe power station’s use of foreign workers, power plants for the UK are bought through international tender on a turnkey basis

  • Comment

    A game of risk

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    I appreciate the risk taken by specialist construction companies, but I fear that Peter Lewis is not looking far enough when he says specialist contractors are at “the end of the chain and bearing the full weight of the risk”

  • Comment

    The full footprint

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    We need to start making an effort in not only looking at the energy used in running a development once it is completed but also the cost to the environment in constructing it and then demolishing the structure once its useful life has expired

  • Comment

    Bond. Which bond?

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    While Ian Yule’s article focuses mainly on an “on demand” bond and highlights the particular case of Permasteelisa, his opening paragraphs promote myths about performance guarantee bonds

  • Comment

    Coming of age

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    So, “like collaborative working, being sustainable was a child of the boom years”. If so, now is the time for both to come of age and be taken seriously

  • Comment

    Pep talk

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Everyone is looking to cut costs. My advice for folks in whatever profession, employed or self-employed, is to show some initiative and motivation around the workplace

  • Comment

    A little local thinking

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    The item concerning MPs’ call to local authorities to make better use of planning agreements to secure jobs for local people (23 January, page 23) may run into problems

  • Comment

    I hope Spring’s eternal …

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    ڶ has long been distinguished both for the level of its architectural criticism and for the number of its good architectural contributors

  • Comment

    The rules of the crane

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    The subject of crane safety has been under debate for too many years. I firmly believe the root cause of all the incidents is the lack of planning, monitoring and control

  • Comment

    Parental concern

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Nick Raynsford (16 January, page 30) you says he is upset with “misleading and pejorative media coverage”. I suspect that most of the upset is with “media coverage” of any kind. The John Roan proposition is flawed and coverage simply exposes the things that you (my MP) and Greenwich council ...

  • Comment

    Forever bursting bubbles

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    I was interested to read Gideon Amos’ latest defence of the government’s eco-towns programme (16 January, page 30). However, I fear history will view this initiative as being merely the froth on the top of the last housing market bubble: not amounting to much now that the bubble has burst

  • An eco-town in Freiburg, Germany. Will the UK’s programme ever make it this far or will it be remembered as ‘the froth on the top of the last housing market bubble’?
    Comment

    The passiv approach

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    There is always so much we can achieve by “doing the simple things well” – it’s a widely used sentiment and it’s nearly always true