All articles by Carl Brown – Page 2
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NewsHousing Today’s Good Employer Guide 2027 opens for entries
Directory of housing associations will return in March, once again covering areas such as skills and people development, diversity and inclusion as well as staff wellbeing and employee support
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NewsMHCLG to ‘refine’ section 106 clearing service after sector feedback
Control of service aimed to accelerate sales passes from Homes England to department
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NewsVico boosts stock numbers due to doubling of completions and acquisitions from Sage
Yorkshire-based provider adds 1,482 homes to its housing stock in space of a year
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NewsCompletions up at Codi Group
Newly-amalgamated and rebranded Welsh landlord increases turnover and surplus
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NewsRSH finds serious failings at two local authorities
Two local authorities have been handed C3 consumer grades by the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH). Kingston-upon-Thames, west London The regulator has identified serious failings in how Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council (Kirklees MBC) and Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames are delivering consumer standards and significant improvement ...
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NewsWest Midlands mayor opens £3.8bn fund to developers
Developers urged to come forward and seek investment for developments across the commercial, mixed-used and large-scale residential sectors
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NewsDrop in sales income and impairment charge hits Gentoo’s margin and interest cover
Sunderland-based provider says ‘challenging market’ contributed to deficit on sales
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In Focus‘We will help councils build again’ says Burnham – but how will this feasibly be achieved?
The prime minister has made council housebuilding a defining pledge of his government, But with Housing Revenue Accounts under severe strain and councils starting from low levels of delivery, Carl Brown asks what it will actually take to make it happen
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NewsTogether and Vico enter merger talks
Combined organisation would have a turnover of more than £530m and manage 72,000 homes
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NewsBellway boosts profit but warns of continuing margin squeeze
Housebuilder says completions will fall this year
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NewsCEO says L&Q aiming to restore web services this week following cyber attack
Fiona Fletcher-Smith says G15 landlord has taken a ‘cautious and risk-based approach’ in its managing of incident.
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NewsOrbit sells 2,200 homes to Raven Housing Trust
Disposal part of plan to reduce number of local authority areas in which the 47,000-home provider operates
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NewsL&Q warns web services may remain down ‘for some time’ following last month’s cyber-attack
More than two weeks on from incident G15 landlord’s digital services are still not back up and running
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NewsHousing Plus increases annual completions but misses target
West Midlands provider increases turnover and surplus
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NewsFreeze new regulatory burdens on homes for three years and review existing obligations to kickstart housing market, says report
Report by Lord Barwell-led Prosper UK Housing Commission also calls for section 106 use to be restricted to what developments need
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NewsG15 calls for London to retain 25% of stamp duty for homelessness fund
Measure should be first step in reform of property taxation and devolution, housing association group says
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NewsGreenSquareAccord breaches governance and viability standard as RSH criticises ‘weak financial performance’
Provider with ‘serious weaknesses’ is reliant on disposals and cost reductions to maintain viability, says regulator
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NewsGovernment ‘could provide interest-free funding’ to help firms at risk of going under due to cost of fixing buildings, says lawyer
‘There has to be some way of safeguarding industry while carrying out all this remediation,’ Fenwick Elliot partner says
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NewsMTVH increases pipeline to 5,600 homes after ‘record year’ for development
But building safety remediation costs reduce 57,000-home landlord’s surplus
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NewsRegulator should avoid directly comparing landlords’ delivery under new regime, says NHF and G15
Sector bodies keen to ensure new approach is proportionate and flexible while maintaining boards’ independence