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7 Nov 18
A PF snapshot survey has revealed 93% of councils across England are planning to borrow more against their housing revenue account now the cap has been lifted.
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29 Oct 18
Councils could generate up to £320bn for the wider economy in England and Wales over the next 50 years if they were given the investment in the Budget today for a “new generation” of social...
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22 Oct 18
Adopting international accounting standards would keep council house borrowing off the national debt and allow real fiscal autonomy, says Chartered Institute of Housing’s policy adviser John...
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19 Oct 18
Councils’ housing revenue account borrowing cap will be scrapped before the end of the month, the communities secretary has revealed.
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18 Oct 18
The first round of funding to remove Grenfell-style cladding has been released to local authorities and housing associations today.
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5 Oct 18
Local Government Information Unit's chief executive Jonathan Carr-West mulls over what came out of the Conservative Party Conference for the public sector.
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4 Oct 18
Right to buy is costing English councils £1bn - £300m net - a year and cutting the discounts could lead to an extra 12,000 homes being built every year, a trade body has said.
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3 Oct 18
The government has given a welcome boost to council borrowing for public purpose, says CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
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3 Oct 18
The cap on how much councils can borrow against their housing revenue account will be scrapped and austerity brought to an end, Theresa May announced in her speech to the Conservative Party...
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1 Oct 18
The government is to ban use of combustible materials for all new high-rise residential building, communities secretary James Brokenshire said today.
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27 Sep 18
Theresa May has pledged to hand £2bn to housing associations over the course of seven years from 2022. Jeremy Earnshaw, chief financial officer at housing association Your Housing Group, writes about...
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25 Sep 18
Ken Lee, chair of CIPFA’s housing panel, says there are plenty of actions the government can take if it wants to send a positive message about social housing.
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19 Sep 18
Funding to build more housing should go to councils – not just housing associations – and must be made available now, council leaders have urged.
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10 Sep 18
Oxford City Council has launched a commercial drone service to provide services including surveying, land mapping and photography.
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30 Aug 18
The government must end the freeze on private rent housing benefits to help low income tenants cover their rent, a housing group has urged.
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21 Aug 18
The long-awaited social housing green paper, published last week, pledged to support local authorities to build more. But the Chartered Institute of Housing’s David Pipe says it did not go far...
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17 Aug 18
The government has launched a pilot allowing housing association tenants to buy their social homes.
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14 Aug 18
The government has come under fire from campaign groups for failing to commit new funding to boost social housing, in its long-awaited green paper released today.
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3 Aug 18
Rents in England have risen 60% faster than wages since 2011, a housing charity has said.
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18 Jul 18
Haringey Council has voted to bury the controversial development scheme aiming to join forces with the private sector to build more housing.
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13 Jul 18
Housing associations should be doing more to help unemployed social renters back into work, a think-tank has said.
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27 Jun 18
The government must refocus its housebuilding spend on affordable homes and suspend the right to buy scheme, according to the Chartered Institute for Housing.
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25 Jun 18
Councils must be given new compulsory purchase order and borrowing powers to buy and develop land for housing, the Onward think-tank has recommended.
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21 Jun 18
Kensington and Chelsea council’s efforts to re-house residents after the Grenfell Tower fire were ‘incompetent’ and ‘indifferent’, a survivor has suggested to MPs.
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19 Jun 18
A New York-style property levy could give local authorities a multi-billion pound windfall to put toward housebuilding, the Association for Consultancy and Engineering has said.
7 Nov 18A PF snapshot survey has revealed 93% of councils across England are planning to borrow more against their housing revenue account now the cap has been lifted.
22 Oct 18Adopting international accounting standards would keep council house borrowing off the national debt and allow real fiscal autonomy, says Chartered Institute of Housing’s policy adviser John...
19 Oct 18Councils’ housing revenue account borrowing cap will be scrapped before the end of the month, the communities secretary has revealed.
18 Oct 18The first round of funding to remove Grenfell-style cladding has been released to local authorities and housing associations today.
5 Oct 18Local Government Information Unit's chief executive Jonathan Carr-West mulls over what came out of the Conservative Party Conference for the public sector.
4 Oct 18Right to buy is costing English councils £1bn - £300m net - a year and cutting the discounts could lead to an extra 12,000 homes being built every year, a trade body has said.
3 Oct 18The cap on how much councils can borrow against their housing revenue account will be scrapped and austerity brought to an end, Theresa May announced in her speech to the Conservative Party...
1 Oct 18The government is to ban use of combustible materials for all new high-rise residential building, communities secretary James Brokenshire said today.
25 Sep 18Ken Lee, chair of CIPFA’s housing panel, says there are plenty of actions the government can take if it wants to send a positive message about social housing.
19 Sep 18Funding to build more housing should go to councils – not just housing associations – and must be made available now, council leaders have urged.
10 Sep 18Oxford City Council has launched a commercial drone service to provide services including surveying, land mapping and photography.
30 Aug 18The government must end the freeze on private rent housing benefits to help low income tenants cover their rent, a housing group has urged.
21 Aug 18The long-awaited social housing green paper, published last week, pledged to support local authorities to build more. But the Chartered Institute of Housing’s David Pipe says it did not go far...
18 Jul 18Haringey Council has voted to bury the controversial development scheme aiming to join forces with the private sector to build more housing.
19 Jun 18A New York-style property levy could give local authorities a multi-billion pound windfall to put toward housebuilding, the Association for Consultancy and Engineering has said.
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