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A new building safety future?
The Government announced a further range of measures to improve building safety in Higher Risk Residential Buildings (HRRBs), which are now defined as buildings…
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Scrutiny Network meeting 28th April
This was our first Zoom meeting. We have agreed to meet 6 weekly for 2/2.5 hours, (instead of a 4 hours quarterly), until we…
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Covid 19 – housing activity
This is a useful collaboration on the activities within HAs: CT-CEx-COVID-WhatsAppchat-summary-240320 Thanks to Campbell Tickell for pulling this together and to Inside Housing for sharing.…
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Fire advice for waking watch changes, due to Covid-19
The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has updated its advice to building owners and landlords on how to operate the waking watch fire safety…
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Disrepair – more protection for social and private tenants
Legislation for social and private renters to take legal action for a wide range of disrepair came into force for existing periodic tenancies on 23rd…
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Rent setting – new and important advice from RSH
New Risk Management advice has been issued by the Regulator of Social Housing relating to rents. This is in addition to report issued in…
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Placemaking and design charters
Ask for beauty, refuse ugliness and promote stewardship – these are the recommendations of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission’s Living with Beauty report on development…
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Survey of HAs – Beever and Struthers
The Beever and Struthers (Auditors) survey will be of interest to those involved in housing and governance in social housing. You can access the…
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Managing through the Coronavirus
This is a useful piece of advice for managing the risks in our businesses and maintaining resident services during this difficult time, from our…
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A new Housing Ombudsman Scheme for complaints
The powers of the Housing Ombudsman Service (HOS) are changing from 1st July 2020, following recent government approval for the plans Some of this…
