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Social housing delivery increases at highest rate since 2014/15

Monday, 6th December 2021

Market analysis by real estate debt advisory specialists, Sirius Property Finance, has revealed that the level of social housing being built not only hit a 13 year high prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 but social housing as a percentage of... View Article

Living Space Submits Plans for 57 Affordable Homes in Coventry

Monday, 29th November 2021

Living Space Housing has submitted a Full Planning Application to Coventry City Council for 57 new homes on a 1.35Ha (3.3-acre) vacant site located off Meadow Road in the Holbrooks area of Coventry. The proposal is for a mixed-tenure housing... View Article

Can Planning Help to Solve the Social Care Crisis?

Tuesday, 9th November 2021

The COVID pandemic has brought the crisis in our Social Care system into sharp focus, and while much of the Government’s recent attention has been on reform of funding mechanisms, we ask what role the Planning System can play in... View Article

North East England on the verge of a rental market boom

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021

Nationwide buy-to-let specialist Sequre Property Investment, believes the North East is on the verge of a rental market boom, with investment in the Tees Valley helping to drive tenant demand in the area. The North East is fast becoming the focus... View Article

Large HA criticised for failing residents over several years

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021

Tenants on a west London housing estate claim that problems with damp, mould and vermin in their homes are being ignored by their social landlord three years after they were first reported. The Observer newspaper initially covered problems on the estate... View Article

Housing minister slammed after swerving building safety

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021

Housing Minister Christopher Pincher failed to mention the building safety crisis affecting thousands of leaseholders and landlords across the country when giving a speech to the Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual conference. The pre-recorded speech was given to delegates on day one of the housing... View Article

HA in Stoke non-compliant after failing to complete fire safety work

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021

A small housing association has been given a non-compliant governance rating and was found to have breached the Home Standard after an investigation by the social housing regulator uncovered a failure to carry out fire safety work and other problems... View Article

Materials supply crisis continues to curtail builders’ recovery

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021

Building and property maintenance firms are facing enormous challenges as they attempt to recover from the pandemic with a long-lasting crisis in the price and availability of vital building materials now facing them. Brian Berry, Chief Executive of the Federation... View Article

Private landlords urged to prepare for stricter energy laws

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021

Property owners and landlords need to start preparing now for the arrival of stricter energy performance laws in the coming years or risk major disruption, cost increases and other business threats. The private rented market is the second biggest sector in... View Article

Landlords are failing tenants with cheap, dated and unhygienic furnishings

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021

An expert in build-to-rent furnishing solutions, has found the majority of UK tenants moving into furnished rentals are living with furniture that is unfit for purpose, often being cheap and of poor quality. For many tenants, a furnished rental property is the preferable... View Article

Gas safety and repairs feature in Ombudsman decisions

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021

Issues ranging from gas safety, repairs and anti-social behaviour were among a batch of critical decisions against social landlords to be published by the Housing Ombudsman. The decisions are published by the Ombudsman service on their website, where they provide an ever-expanding... View Article

Ombudsman’s online casebook shares more learning for the sector

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021

Recent decisions by the Housing Ombudsman include cases concerning cladding and a shared owner wanting to sell her property, plus an issue resolved through mediation and a complaint about repairs and damage to property. The latest batch of decisions includes: A finding... View Article

Complaints to Housing Ombudsman jump by over 20 per cent

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021

Growing tenant dis-satisfaction with social landlords is revealed in the Housing Ombudsman’s latest Insight report covering April to June 2021, which revealed a 21 per cent increase in the volume of enquiries and complaints received compared to the previous quarter. The Housing Ombudsman’s report... View Article

100 organisations sign letter urging PM not to cut Universal Credit

Wednesday, 3rd November 2021

100 organisations across the housing and charity sectors have joined efforts in urging the Prime Minister to not go ahead with the planned £20-a-week cut to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit in October. The Joseph Rowntree Federation has co-ordinated... View Article

Social Housing tenants come together to speak out on tackling climate change

Monday, 1st November 2021

Tenants from across the North of England have come together to publish new advice for the construction sector on tackling climate change. Homes account for around one-quarter of the North’s carbon emissions. To meet the challenge of reaching net zero... View Article

Wakefield District Housing awards geospatial data contract to Landmark Information

Wednesday, 20th October 2021

Wakefield District Housing (WDH), which manages over 32,000 homes across the north of England, has partnered with Landmark Information to improve the management and insight for its expanding asset portfolio by capitalising on intelligent location data and advanced mapping services. By working with... View Article

Leaky homes need addressing as well as replacing gas boilers, says FMB

Tuesday, 19th October 2021

A flagship Government strategy to address the impact of our homes on the climate looks to have failed to deliver the ambitious blueprint for action that is needed to deliver a greener Britain, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB),... View Article

ECA backs Government plans for low-carbon heat

Tuesday, 19th October 2021

Leading electrotechnical and engineering services trade body ECA broadly welcomes the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy, which includes a scheme to help UK households install new, low-carbon heating systems. However, ECA urges further action in the coming years to meet... View Article

Funding to meet Fuel Poverty Target short of £18bn

Thursday, 14th October 2021

Research published today by AgilityEco and Gemserv reveals that current funding and policy to relieve fuel poverty will help only a fraction of the 3.2 million homes that were in fuel poverty in 2019. The legally binding target to all... View Article

Housing waiting lists could double next year

Wednesday, 13th October 2021

One in 10 households in need of housing are stuck on council waiting lists for over five years as a result of the chronic shortage of affordable homes, new research reveals today. A new report, Building post-pandemic prosperity, commissioned by the... View Article