Mitigating the Skills Shortfall

Taking the Pain Out of PAS 2035 Compliance How time flies. With the PAS 2035 deadline looming at the end of March, the construction industry is glancing nervously at the clock on the wall as the Landlord threatens to call... View Article

Vent-Axia Supports Global Recycling Day 2025

Leading British ventilation manufacturer Vent-Axia is celebrating Global Recycling Day, which takes place on 18 March 2025. Vent-Axia is committed to reducing its environmental impact and its strategy focuses on three pillars: Product – Engineer Sustainable Solutions; Planet – Improve... View Article

Massive green investment for North-East HA

A North-East housing association has received one of the largest single funding pots given out by Government to date to help make their customers’ homes more energy efficient. Home Group has received over £28m from the Government’s Warm Homes fund... View Article

Platform Housing Group announces new appointment

A Midlands-based social landlord has appointed a new member to its Board. Platform Housing Group has welcomed Sara Waller as a Non Executive Director and Chair of the Assets and Sustainability Committee. This latest appointment will further strengthen the Group’s... View Article
Matthew Neale, Head of Fleet at Platform Housing Group with the winning trophies at this year’s Fleet News Awards.

Social landlord celebrates in fleet management awards

One of the Midlands largest housing associations has been crowned as a winner in a prestigious fleet management awards scheme. Platform Housing Group was awarded this accolade in two categories in The Fleet News Awards 2025; these are: Fleet of... View Article

Secure specifications

As housing security needs evolve, Rhys McNichol of Videx Security highlights the importance of investing in high-quality, professionally installed systems over less reliable, lower cost alternatives. In the housing industry, the demand for high-quality, professionally installed and maintained security systems... View Article

Peabody announces new Chief Investment Officer

Phil Jenkins, Peabody’s Executive Director of Development, has been appointed Chief Investment Officer (effective 1 April 2025). He will lead a new Investment directorate focused on both Peabody residents’ existing homes and the new ones the group plans to build.... View Article

Housing partnership delivers energy efficiency upgrades

The Matrix Housing Partnership, a consortium of seven housing associations, has delivered energy efficiency upgrades to 435 social homes across the Midlands and South West England. The Matrix Housing Partnership is comprised of GreenSquareAccord (GSA), Black Country Housing Group, Citizen... View Article

HA’s reinvest record amounts into new and existing homes

  Reinvestment in new and existing homes reached record levels as housing associations continued to focus on development, building safety, energy efficiency and stock decency, according to the new Value for Money report published today (13 March 2025) by the... View Article

A holistic approach to IEQ in the journey to net zero

Q&A with Tom Garrigan, Technical Director at BSRIA With people in the UK spending around 90% of their time indoors, indoor environmental quality (IEQ) plays a crucial role in health, comfort, and productivity. Throughout the 20th century, advances in building... View Article

VIVID secures £14.35 million Government funding

VIVID has been offered £14.35 million from the government’s Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (WH: SHF) to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.  This provisional allocation of funding supports the aim for all homes to be warm and affordable. This means... View Article

Partners set to welcome first residents

Karbon Homes and South Tyneside Council are set to welcome the first residents to 10 newly built supported housing bungalows in Hebburn. Developed to support residents with learning disabilities, autism and complex care needs to live more independently, the new... View Article

NHDG chair reacts to today’s retrofit funding awards

TODAY (11 March 2025) the government has announced which projects have been successful in their bid for support from the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave 3 and Warm Homes: Local Grant. Leading retrofit decarbonisation contractor Sustainable Building Services (UK)... View Article

Wates appoints new operations director

Wates Group, one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance company, has today announced the appointment of George Mosey as Operations Director for the Construction division. Sitting on the Wates Construction Board, George will work alongside the... View Article

Affordable homes on the way for Wornington Green

Hundreds more much-needed homes, including more than 200 for social rent, will be built as part of the regeneration of Wornington Green, after Peabody’s plans for the third and final phase of the project were green-lit by the council. At... View Article

An electric shock

David Barrett of EHC discusses the major change coming in June which will affect over 900,000 electricity meters in UK homes with night storage heaters, and what this means for landlords. The Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) is a nationwide system... View Article

New homes ‘top out’ at St Ann’s Hospital site

Hundreds of much-needed new homes for London have moved a step closer to completion, with the “topping out” of 240 homes on the former St Ann’s Hospital site in South Tottenham. Not-for-profit housing association Peabody and development partner The Hill... View Article