News – Page 47
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Governments have failed to grasp link between housing and health, says Ombudsman
Housing Ombudsman repeats calls for Royal Commission to establish housing policy as a health intervention
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‘Look beyond Grenfell Inquiry recommendations and think about tenant relationships,’ says regulator
Fiona MacGregor urges social landlords at the Housing Community Summit to reflect on the way they listen to residents
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Last government’s retrofit programmes to stay as minister says no time for ‘hiatus’
Miatta Fahnbulleh said DESNZ would take ‘area-based’ approach to rolling out efficiency improvements
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Barratt, Homes England and Lloyds form JV to build out sites of up to 10,000 homes
£150m MADE partnership will seek to develop large brownfield sites and ‘garden villages’
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New public-private alliance for zero-bills MMC homes launched in Liverpool
Specially constructed home will stand outside new Housing Community Summit event
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‘We need subsidy’ Liverpool HA boss tells Community Housing Summit as homelessness costs soar
Liverpool housing leaders discuss challenges in meeting housing need at joint NHF and CIH event in the city
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House of Lords committee launches inquiry into government’s ‘grey belt’ plans
Peers will examine Labour’s ‘golden rules’ for development on the green belt
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Berkeley on track to hit £525m profit target after ‘stable’ start to the year
Housebuilder targeting nearly £1bn in pre-tax profit over the next two years as it praises Labour’s planning reforms
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Burnham calls for government to cover upfront costs of remediating 157 unsafe high rises in Manchester
The mayor of Greater Manchester has urged the government to pay for the work now and charge the property sector later
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Flagship boosts surplus by 16% despite fall in open market sales and higher salaries
East of England provider built 744 homes in the 2023/24
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House price growth hit two-year high in August, says Halifax
Prices expected to rise further this year
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Welsh government only halfway to its 20,000 low-carbon social homes target, watchdog finds
The government may need as much as £580 to £740m extra to deliver the homes by March 2026
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Home Group appoints experienced leader and executive coach Kate Still as chief commercial officer
Kate Still has also held senior positions at Sanctuary, Citizen and the South East Development Agency, as well as in local government
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Vistry set to unseat Barratt as country’s biggest housebuilder
Patnerships developer set to build 18,000 homes this year, taking it above figure predicted by rival
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Registered providers underspend on development by 17%
Largest housing assocaitions cite delays and contractor failures in latest quarterly survey from Regulator of Social Housing
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Aster’s surplus hit by higher interest costs and writedowns
The housing association’s pre-tax profit falls 14% due to a combination of an increase in costs caused by inflation and an ‘all-time high’ investment in its homes
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Housing bodies cautiously welcome Scottish goverment’s housing focus in 2024/25 programme
However, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations has warned that the government also needs to tackle funding delays and remove obstacles for mid-market rent homes
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Government promises to bar Grenfell companies from future public sector work
Prime minister to write to firms named and shamed and put them on notice they will be barred from taxpayer-funded contracts
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Construction’s day of reckoning as Grenfell Inquiry finds severe failings across industry laid ground for deadly blaze
Final report sets out plan to consolidate responsibility for industry in one centralised regulator reporting to a single government minister
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“This must mark a turning point for building safety”: How the sector responded to the Grenfell Inquiry report
Housing leaders have been reacting to the long-awaited Phase 2 report and its 1,700 pages of findings