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East Midlands heating company winning new work with CIRCOFLOPRO

Tuesday, 1st March 2022

Northampton based JD Plumbing and Heating has been growing its business in recent years after discovering the multiple benefits of buying the ready-to-install underfloor heating systems offered by CIRCOFLOPRO, part of the Ridgespear Group. The company covers an area from... View Article

AKW’s new futureproof sanitaryware range – compliant with revised UK water regulations

Tuesday, 1st March 2022

AKW, one of the UK’s leading providers of accessibility solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of its stylish new Livenza Plus sanitaryware. This high-quality range has classic, clean lines and is fully compliant with the latest, revised UK Water... View Article

New tenancy regulations in Wales to become effective from July

Friday, 25th February 2022

Julie James the Welsh Minister for Climate Change has announced that a raft of changes to housing and tenancy law in the country will come into effect from 15 July 2022. Under the new law (The Renting Homes (Wales) Act... View Article

Doors open for office to home conversion in Woking

Friday, 25th February 2022

Vicaima doors have been selected by a Surrey based contractor for new apartments in central Woking town location, converting former office space into smart contemporary living. The trend for re-imagining unwanted commercial and workspaces into modern homes offering flexible rental... View Article

Another council refers itself to regulator over H&S failings

Friday, 25th February 2022

A unitary council on the south coast of England has referred itself to the Regulator of Social Housing over shortcomings in its electrical and fire safety work to tenants’ homes, leading to a probable breach of the Home Standard. Bournemouth,... View Article

Government announces drive to improve service standards in social housing

Friday, 25th February 2022

The Government has announced a package of measures to ensure social housing residents are listened to and better protected in the future, with their new rights enshrined in law. Among the measures announced by the Minister for Rough Sleeping and... View Article

Levelling Up funds should be made available for HAs’ regeneration work

Friday, 25th February 2022

The PlaceShapers group of housing associations is calling on the Government to make funds available for its members’ work on regenerating housing estates and decarbonisation work on existing stock. Backed up by published research in a new report ‘Stay local,... View Article

How do we fund all of the post Grenfell safety works?

Friday, 25th February 2022

Among the many questions left unanswered by Michael Gove’s commitment to make developers pay for resolving the cladding crisis on Britain’s block of flats, perhaps the most important one is how all of the other necessary safety works are to... View Article

Increase in empty homes hidden by holiday lets ‘flipping’ ruse

Friday, 25th February 2022

Empty homes being recorded as holiday lets by owners who want to avoid paying council tax on them is to blame for an apparent drop in the numbers of vacant properties recorded across the country. The group Action on Empty... View Article

Procurement for Housing Framework Reappoints David Phillips

Friday, 25th February 2022

David Phillips is delighted to announce its reappointment for the Procurement for Housing (PfH) furniture and flooring framework for the next four years. Following a meticulous tendering process, David Phillips is pleased to be one of five suppliers listed on... View Article

Developers told to stump up for building safety measures, but uncertainty remains over responsibility for landlords’ costs

Friday, 25th February 2022

Michael Gove broke the stalemate over who has responsibility for cladding removal costs by demanding that developers pay up, but his solution may only provide a partial relief for individual leaseholders. Developers have been given until early March to agree... View Article

Poor social housing has been a problem for decades

Friday, 25th February 2022

Poor social housing conditions have been a problem for 30 or 40 years and the Government, together with social landlords, face an uphill battle to solve the issue according to the Archbishop of Canterbury. During an interview with ITV News,... View Article

Millions of families in England face biggest social housing rent rise in a decade

Friday, 25th February 2022

Nearly five million families living in social housing in England are facing rent rises of up to 4.1 per cent from April – their biggest increase in a decade, according to the Resolution Foundation thinktank. The organisation has forecast a... View Article

Skills and data holding back social landlords’ from digital transformation of services

Friday, 25th February 2022

The lack of both skills and quality data is holding back social housing landlords who are attempting to digitally transform their organisations and better serve residents. A new survey, commissioned by conversation-as-a-service leader Futr, has found that social landlords see... View Article

Homelessness is disproportionately affecting women

Friday, 25th February 2022

Sixty per cent of all homeless adults living in temporary accommodation in England are women, despite only making up 51 per cent of the general population analysis by the housing charity Shelter has found. The charity’s new report, Fobbed Off, used... View Article

West London council slated by Ombudsman over roof leak lasting six years

Friday, 25th February 2022

A series of complaint handling failures by the London Borough of Ealing led to a lengthy and frustrating delay for a resident in getting a leaking roof replaced, causing damp in her flat and impacting on her health. The leaseholder complained in... View Article

Consultation on new tenant satisfaction measures underway

Friday, 25th February 2022

The Regulator of Social Housing is consulting on a new set of tenant satisfaction measures, as proposed in the Government’s Social Housing White Paper, but the closing date for responses is imminent. The Social Housing White Paper was published over a year ago... View Article

£200bn worth of empty homes sitting vacant across Britain

Friday, 25th February 2022

Research by a leading lettings and estate agency has found an estimated £200bn worth of property is sitting vacant across Britain’s housing market – up 2.1 per cent on the previous year alone. Barrows and Forrester analysed Government data on... View Article