All Places for People articles
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NewsNew housing provider consortium awarded £31m in Warm Homes funding
Places for People-led group hopes collaboration will make grant money “go further”
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NewsFormer Scotland rugby captain appointed to head up Places for People subsidiary
Kelly Brown vows to ”be a strong voice to fight for social housing customers across Scotland”
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NewsFormer Homes England chief executive joins Places for People board
Peter Denton becomes non-executive member of 245,000-home PfP Group
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NewsPlaces for People buys 110-acre site on the edge of Edinburgh for 1,300-home scheme
Housing association revives plans for Redheughs Village project
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NewsPartnership between Places for People subsidiary and Gresham House invests first £53m in shared ownership
Shared ownership management platform aims to build a £1bn portfolio within five years
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NewsAllison Homes recruits Places for People executive as group MD
Housebuilder Allison Homes has hired a former Places for People executive as its new group managing director. Jon Cook, has left his role as chief executive of the housing association’s commercial subsidary Places for People Developments,to take up the position at the £146m-turnover housebuilder.
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NewsCredit rating agency revises Places for People’s outlook from stable to negative
S&P has downgraded PfP’s outlook due to increased costs associated with investments in existing homes
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NewsPlaces for People appoints new managing director for developments
Andrew Usher has been promoted from development director to managing director for developments
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NewsPlaces for People launches new training programme to tackle sector skills shortages
PfP Thrive will deliver training programmes for the UK housing and construction sector
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NewsHousing delivery 31% up at Places for People
Repair and maintenance spend exceeded planned budget
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Comment‘We won’t be party to division’ - Why Places for People is leaving X
The housing association is among several organisations to announce it will no longer have a presence on the social media platform. Greg Reed explains why, and how it will ensure resident engagement won’t suffer as a result
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NewsPublic believes more upfront investment in infrastructure needed to support social housebuilding, survey finds
Places for People’s pre-election survey found that more than 50% of people worry about the strain that housebuilding would put on existing infrastructure
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NewsPlaces for People and Clarion use shared ownership staircasing automation technology
Clarion completed a two-month pilot with Stairpay, which Stairpay say saw a 50% increase in staircasing transactions
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NewsPlaces for People joins call for next government to build 90,000 social homes a year
A recent PfP survey found over three-quarters of people believe more social rented homes are needed to tackle homelessness
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NewsNon-compliant Origin becomes a subsidary of Places for People
7,800-home housing association completes merger after regulatory downgrade
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NewsPlaces for People hires permanent chief risk officer
Judy Hardy was appointed to the role on an interim basis in September last year
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NewsPlaces for People’s 234-home canalside development in Birmingham approved
The scheme will be built in Ladywood, close to the Birmingham main line canal
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CommentHow tenure-blind design can help chip away at social housing stigma
‘Poor doors’ can reinforce segregation based on economic status, but there are often good reasons why affordable housing is kept separate from market sale homes. This circle can be squared, writes James Zamchick
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NewsPlaces for People’s takeover of small rural housing association approved
Proposed merger between South Devon Rural Housing Association and Places for People approved
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NewsPlaces for People’s takeover of Origin gets go-ahead
Origin is set to be taken over by PfP in its centenary year