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Thursday 10 April 2014
High Court backs soup run in town centre
Waltham Forest Council told Christian Kitchen to move from its site in the centre of Walthamstow, east London, last year after the local authority…
Tagged: Anti-Poverty Homelessness
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Thursday 10 April 2014
Public sector partnership for housebuilding
A 143,000-home social landlord has joined forces with Britain’s largest private house builder to deliver 2,000 homes through a joint venture. According to inside…
Tagged: HA Specific Issues House Building
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Thursday 10 April 2014
Housing Minister moves Gloucester Council closer to stock transfer
The housing minister has given the green light to a council’s stock transfer programme by agreeing to write off £50 million of historic housing…
Tagged: LA Specific Issues
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Thursday 10 April 2014
40% cut in trading standards
Trading standards budget cuts of 40% have been damned as a ‘false economy’ by trade union Unison. As a result of these cuts, more…
Tagged: LA Specific Issues
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Thursday 10 April 2014
Parenting scheme takeover
The Department of Health has taken over responsibility for a £2m Government parenting scheme that helped just 4% of those eligible over two years.…
Tagged: Care and Support Nuisance
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Thursday 10 April 2014
A Housing Bank for London?
A consultation of the London mayor’s plans for a new ‘housing bank’, which could provide £200 million of cheap loans to accelerate house building…
Tagged: House Building Housing Strategy
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Thursday 10 April 2014
24 LAs to share £2.1m for heat network projects
Greg Barker has announced 24 local authorities will get a share of the £2.1 million pot for the development of heat network projects. According…
Tagged: Energy Green Agenda LA Specific Issues
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Saturday 5 April 2014
North Lincs Council – DHP underspend defended
North Lincolnshire spends just 17 per cent of its housing DHP funds, they which refused to provide emergency housing hardship funds to smokers has…
Tagged: Anti-Poverty Bedroom Tax Welfare Reform
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Saturday 5 April 2014
London Draft Housing Strategy Published
The London Assembly has accepted Boris Johnson’s ‘inadequate’ revised draft housing strategy, despite voting for an amendment. The revised draft strategy was published on Friday.…
Tagged: Housing Strategy
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Saturday 5 April 2014
Government Solar Strategy
Car parks and Government buildings could be soon turned into ‘solar hubs’ as part of efforts to boost PV rollout, ministers have outlined. According…
Tagged: Energy Green Agenda
