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LA to set up a HA to access housing grant
Barking & Dagenham Council was awarded £25.3m in September from the London mayor’s Building Council Homes for Londoners fund. It was to develop these through…
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NAO report: Planning for new Homes
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government’s (the Department’s) objective for housing in England is to: “support the delivery of a million homes…
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Hackitt report into Grenfell Tower – opinion
Following on from the Hackitt review into fire/building safety. See below which we have posted before…. Building a Safer Future Here is a helpful…
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Labour – green paper for housing
Here is Labour’s green paper for housing. The government will publish their paper in the summer. Housing-for-the-Many-final Some interesting ideas include: the real definition…
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Development in small HAs
This is a useful documents from G320 (small HAs in London) who have explained their contribution and potential to support the increase in homes…
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LA setting up Housebuilding companies
Almost a quarter of councils in England have invested £130m in setting up 58 new housebuilding companies since 2012, according to research by Inside…
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Lessons from Europe on small housebuilding
IPPR have studied the problems facing English SME builders, with mutually reinforcing problems: the planning system, the land market, and insufficient access to finance.…
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HCA CEO warns that HAs will be scrutinised on housing supply
CEO Nick Walkley of the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has warned housing associations to expect scrutiny over housing supply which they “haven’t been subject…
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Is rent to buy working for the housing market?
Inside Housing have been doing an investigation into take up. Here are some headlines on what they found: Responding to an Inside Housing survey of Rent…
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Southern HAs pitch for sub market borrowing of £100 billion
Some HAs have got together to make a pitch for a new borrowing scheme for sub-market housing, to government officials looking for potential solutions to…
