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Large HA to build to replace homes lost by small providers
London’s largest housing association is to help smaller providers replace homes lost through the Right to Buy by offering them a ‘risk-free’ opportunity to…
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S106 – Government to accept starter homes as Affordable Housing
The chair of Peabody and former head of the civil service, said the original intention under the previous coalition government was to provide Starter…
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Shared ownership – older and richer
Shared ownership homes are increasingly being sold to older and richer tenants. According to Inside Housing: Viridian_SharedOwnership_FINAL “A major research project has revealed the…
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New social homes – the challenges and benefits for ALMOs
Capital Economics was commissioned by SHOUT and the National Federation of ALMOs to evaluate the fiscal and economic impacts of additional social housing development funded in part through…
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Housing planning rules to include starter homes and not homes for social rent
Councils will no longer be able to insist on affordable rented housing in planning agreements, following a radical change in government housing policy. David…
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Experts called in for local plan development
Planning Minister Brandon Lewis today (15 September 2015) launched a new group of experts to help streamline the local plan-making process. The 8-strong panel…
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Research by NHBC on mixed tenure
New research by the NHBC Foundation has found that house prices are not reduced on developments which successfully integrate social and private housing. The…
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Funding of new homes goes international
A Chinese private enterprise firm is to invest £60m in three Northern Powerhouse projects that could deliver 10,000 new homes, including housing developments in…
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PAC – govt mismanaging disposals of public land
A group of MPs has accused the government of mismanaging the programme of disposing of public land for housebuilding, in a report. According to…
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Court rejects Government policy on conversion for rent
It was presented as the silver bullet to banish the blight of empty buildings, boost house-building and liberate developers from “stealth taxes” that “hinder…
