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Office to residential funding
Councils approved nearly half of the applications made in the last quarter to turn redundant office buildings into new homes, new figures reveal. Accordng…
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Removing the shackles for housebuilding
The effects of the financial crisis of 2008 continue to ripple around the world. For housing associations that has meant a continuing impact on…
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Support for housing construction from public
The majority of the public would back a new wave of social housing construction to help tackle the UK’s housing crisis. According to Housemark:…
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North West house building factory
A house building ‘factory’ that could produce 1,000 homes a year for 40 social landlords could be up and running by 2016. According to…
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Bidding opens for £5m Brownfield development
Councils are being encouraged to bid for a £5m fund to help transform brownfield sites into new housing developments. According to LG News: To qualify for…
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First projects of 200,000 houses to be built annouced
The first wave of projects to benefit from the government’s £1bn large infrastructure fund, which is aimed at unlocking or accelerating the provision of…
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No homes built under £17m under community right to build
A £17 million programme to encourage local communities to build more houses has yet to result in a single house being built. Reported by…
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Winners in the allocation of £1.7billion affordable homes programme
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has allocated just more than half of its £1.7bn pot of grant funding for the affordable homes programme…
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Housing rebalancing the community
Problems with housing finance could be improved if housing investment was treated more like other key economic infrastructure such as transport, energy and skills…
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Leaked government documents predict house building decrease
Leaked government documents have shown that the government is exploring emergency measures to boost house building as the number of new build homes are…
