Posted by MHT on July 5, 2010 | No Comments
A social landlord has taken its fight to evict a tenant with a history of domestic violence to the Court of Appeal. MHT London has successfully appealed against an earlier ruling in Croydon County Court that it could not evict Mr Hadjazi because he had not been living in the family home when his violent behaviour caused his wife and children to flee.
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Posted by MHT on June 30, 2010 | No Comments
Metropolitan Housing Partnership (MHP) is celebrating achieving a Gold rating from the Mayor’s office. The Green500 carbon management scheme, run by the Greater London Authority, awarded MHP the gold rating for its contribution to sustainability and carbon management.
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Posted by MHT on June 29, 2010 | No Comments
Metropolitan Housing Trust London (MHT London) has been praised by Mayor of London, Boris Johnson for being the first housing association to join his Capital Growth initiative. MHT London were acknowledged for their contribution to the scheme at a launch event that took place on Tuesday 29th June at the Mayor’s office. The Capital Growth scheme aims to provide an alternative to allotments, boost the amount of locally grown food and improve access to low cost, nutritious food in urban areas.
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Posted by MHT on June 24, 2010 | No Comments
Hate-related incidents are serious forms of anti-social behaviour and MHP has a new hate-related incidents policy which underlines our zero-tolerance approach to this. We encourage members of all communities to report incidents to us.
More information and a copy of the new policy can be downloaded from here
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Posted by MHT on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
Metropolitan Housing Trust London (MHT London) is celebrating winning The Royal Institute of British Architects Awards (RIBA) 2010 London Award for its development Bateman Mews in Clapham, South London.
A partnership between MHT London (part of Metropolitan Housing Partnership), London Borough of Lambeth and architects Anne Thorne Architects, the scheme is made up of five large and affordable family homes which have been built on what used to be a neglected car park. The south London scheme was given the award for its architectural standards and contribution to the local community; it cost £900,000 and was constructed between June 2008 – June 2009.
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Posted by MHT on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
Metropolitan Housing Trust London welcomes the new Government’s focus on tenant mobility and actively provides tenant mobility opportunities for our tenants.
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Posted by MHT on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
Residents from across London have celebrated their graduation as trained Money Advisers – in a new initiative designed to help communities tackle indebtedness.
More than 20 residents underwent training as part of a partnership of three housing associations to address high levels of indebtedness and financial exclusion within communities. The ceremony took place on Wednesday 9 June at the National Housing Federation office in Central London, and was chaired by Bernie Morgan, Chief Executive of Community Development Finance Association (cdfa). The residents received their certificates from DWP Strategic financial inclusion champion Yasin Ahmed
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Posted by MHT on June 10, 2010 | No Comments
MHT London’s Neighbourhood Investment Unit won the 24Housing Retrofit Award 2010 for improving energy efficiency in existing properties.
Seb Junemann, Environmental Sustainability Officer, said upon receiving the award: “We are delighted with the win. The team have worked really hard…this award demonstrates our commitment to sustainable issues and best practice”.
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Posted by MHT on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
On Monday 22 March residents of the South London Ashmole estate became residents of Metropolitan Housing Trust London (MHT London). As a result of the transfer the estate will receive £50.3m worth of investment over 30 years and residents will see a reduction in their weekly rent.
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Posted by MHT on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
With the help of MHT London residents, and following a vigorous and lengthy tender selection process, we are pleased to announce that Pinnacle will be our new cleaning and grounds maintenance contractor.
Pinnacle have been appointed because they demonstrated their commitment to providing a customer focused quality cleaning and grounds maintenance service whilst also demonstrating good value for money. Read on…
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