All Housing articles – Page 21
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CommentThe price of electricity is holding back the rollout of heat pumps in social housing
Following Fuel Poverty Awareness Day, Matthew Scott argues making clean energy affordable is the missing piece of the jigsaw in tackling the issue
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NewsBuilding Safety Regulator appoints interim as permanent head
Philip White will continue in role he has been in since April
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CommentDeliberate landbanking by housebuilders is a myth
The suggestion that housebuilders deliberately landbank is, to put it bluntly, poppycock
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NewsPartnerships housing firm owes more than £8m, liquidator says
Real Contracting Group went into liquidation just two years after being set up
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NewsGresham House hires Peabody manager to head up shared ownership
Claire Cooper becomes second major appointment to asset manager’s housing operations in the space of a few weeks
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NewsBuilding Safety Regulator aims to assess four in 10 occupied higher-risk buildings by 2026
New regulator publishes its first strategic plan, setting out a three-year ‘roadmap’ for action
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NewsS&P likely to raise Octavia’s credit rating if Abri merger goes ahead
S&P Global Ratings has indicated they could raise Octavia’s current ‘BBB’ rating due to ‘stronger creditworthiness’ of Abri
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In FocusWhat happens to housing development plans when a council goes ‘bankrupt’?
When a section 114 ‘bankruptcy’ notice is put in place, a council’s non-statutory services are restricted and housebuilding ’goes to the back of the queue’. Yet the growing number of councils in this situation are finding ways to carry on building.
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NewsA2 Dominion confident of increasing development in 2023/24 despite half-year drop
Housing association reports rising turnover and doubling of surplus
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry report delayed until the middle of next year
Phase-two findings may not be published before seventh anniversary of tower-block disaster
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CommentMoney in the autumn statement was in short supply – but ministers do have tools now to boost development
Jeremy Hunt’s ‘autumn statement’ offered thin gruel for housing but there are reasons to be optimistic, writes Paul Smith
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NewsPlans submitted for 1,500-home scheme in north-west London
Hollybrook’s Neasden Goods Yard scheme to contain five blocks of up to 51 storeys in height
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NewsCrest Nicholson appoints fashion entrepreneur and inclusivity guru to board
Dr Maggie Semple to join £780m-turnover housebuilder as non-executive director from 1 January
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NewsSovereign Network Group development dips due to site work ‘slowdown’
Newly merged 80,000-home association reveals completions down 9% in consolidated figures
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CommentThe autumn statement showed housing has been pushed to the periphery
If we are really going for growth housing should have been front and centre of Hunt’s announcements, but it was anything but, writes Paul Hackett
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NewsTroubled Octavia appoints former BPHA boss as MD
Kevin Bolt to head up non-compliant association at ‘crucial moment’ as it enters merger talks with Abri
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NewsAutumn statement 2023 coverage all in one place
Housing Today’s coverage of the Autumn Statement all in one place
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NewsJoseph Homes 34-storey student tower recommended for approval
South London scheme replaces HTA-designed flats proposals hit by “viability and deliverability” concerns
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NewsHunt announces £110m nutrient mitigation fund to ‘unlock 40,000 homes’
Extension of affordable homes guarantee scheme and low borrowing rates for councils also confirmed
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NewsAutumn statement 2023: Key measures at a glance
A list of announcements made today by the chancellor in his ‘autumn statement for growth’