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What you need to know about the housing bill
Many useful summaies are starting to emerge. Here are 2 of them: From service matters: Housing and Planning Bill 2015-16 Summary and. From CIH:…
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Giant investor targeting housing sector
A giant private investor is targeting “market transformation” of the affordable housing sector, as it throws its £5bn weight into building cheap rented housing…
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£1b of funding availabel to unlock housing development
The government is inviting bids from developers for loans under a £1bn scheme aimed to unlock ‘major housing schemes’ by funding infrastructure. The Large…
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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 flexi-rent scheme presented at the Conservative Conference
Home HA has revealed details of a new ‘flexi rent’ scheme, which it claims can deliver affordable housing without government grant. Home Group will publish…
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High aspirations, strong foundations
Here is a report from John Healy MP, former labour Housing Minister on the Housing Vrisis – worth a read high-aspirations-sound-foundations…
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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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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…
