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8 Nov 21
A London council has begun a ‘key amnesty’ aiming to reduce tenancy fraud, promising “no questions asked” of those who have been using council homes illegally.
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18 Oct 21
Two weeks before it hosts COP26, Glasgow City Council last week approved a £10bn plan to retrofit 1 million homes in the city region to make them more energy efficient. Mark Williams explains how the...
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9 Sep 21
The London Borough of Merton is set to relinquish property sale income on a £1.2bn joint-venture, after a funding gap emerged in the project last year.
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8 Sep 21
The £1.5bn Green Homes Grant was approved by a senior civil servant, despite an internal committee rejecting its business case, according to the National Audit Office.
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31 Aug 21
Government plans to spend £8.6bn building affordable homes still leave a large unaddressed need for social housing, an expert has warned.
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24 Aug 21
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham used Public Works Loan Board funding to increase its housing stock, with help from an authority-owned company.
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5 Aug 21
The London Borough of Bromley will provide £20m of its own resources for a joint-venture aimed at providing 300 homes at affordable rent for residents.
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30 Jul 21
Poorly maintained records of grants given out for affordable rented homes in Bristol meant data was unreliable, according to a highly critical report from the city council’s internal auditors.
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28 Jun 21
A London borough has written off costs totalling more £7m after a regeneration programme was scrapped by the authority last year.
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25 Jun 21
Mounting costs relating to a block of flats with dangerous cladding could lead to a local authority lending millions to a council-owned company – money it admits might not be fully paid back
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15 Jun 21
Kensington & Chelsea’s Grenfell tragedy response means opening up to residents over the viability of new homes.
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7 Jun 21
City of Edinburgh Council will progress with a £30m housing pilot which could see former council homes sold back to the authority to cover essential repairs.
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4 Jun 21
Regulators have threatened to close down Luton Borough Council’s wholly-owned housing development company after it failed to file its accounts.
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24 May 21
The Grenfell Tower fire has so far cost the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea £406m, documents have revealed.
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17 May 21
Torbay Council proposes borrowing at least £45m to lend to a recently-created housing subsidiary, to help boost the number of affordable homes in the borough.
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14 May 21
The London Borough of Newham has approved plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds in the next three years to regenerate and add to its housing stock.
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30 Apr 21
Property developers will pay at least £2bn towards removing unsafe cladding under new government proposals.
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23 Apr 21
The government’s Green Homes Grant scheme paid out £196m, less than 10% of its original £2bn envelope, before it was scrapped last month.
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15 Apr 21
Local authorities and industry bodies are against the proposed changes to the annual housing growth threshold for payment under the New Homes Bonus.
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13 Apr 21
Councillors have voted to reject a £29.4m grant from the government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund despite their authority submitting a successful bid.
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8 Apr 21
Lewes District Council and Eastbourne Borough Council have announced plans for a £110m prefabricated housing project on mainly council-owned land.
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29 Mar 21
Councils will get just £300m extra to help low-income households make their homes more efficient after the government abandoned a £1.5bn grants scheme with a similar aim after just six months.
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24 Mar 21
The New Homes Bonus needs reform – but government proposals would be better combined with a systematic shake-up of council finances, says Tracy Bingham.
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22 Mar 21
The government has “not yet grasped” the scale of funding needed to decarbonise UK homes by 2050, the Environmental Audit Committee has warned.
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19 Mar 21
Councils will be allowed to hold Right to Buy receipts for five years before investing them under new government plans.
8 Nov 21A London council has begun a ‘key amnesty’ aiming to reduce tenancy fraud, promising “no questions asked” of those who have been using council homes illegally.
18 Oct 21Two weeks before it hosts COP26, Glasgow City Council last week approved a £10bn plan to retrofit 1 million homes in the city region to make them more energy efficient. Mark Williams explains how the...
9 Sep 21The London Borough of Merton is set to relinquish property sale income on a £1.2bn joint-venture, after a funding gap emerged in the project last year.
8 Sep 21The £1.5bn Green Homes Grant was approved by a senior civil servant, despite an internal committee rejecting its business case, according to the National Audit Office.
31 Aug 21Government plans to spend £8.6bn building affordable homes still leave a large unaddressed need for social housing, an expert has warned.
24 Aug 21The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham used Public Works Loan Board funding to increase its housing stock, with help from an authority-owned company.
5 Aug 21The London Borough of Bromley will provide £20m of its own resources for a joint-venture aimed at providing 300 homes at affordable rent for residents.
30 Jul 21Poorly maintained records of grants given out for affordable rented homes in Bristol meant data was unreliable, according to a highly critical report from the city council’s internal auditors.
28 Jun 21A London borough has written off costs totalling more £7m after a regeneration programme was scrapped by the authority last year.
25 Jun 21Mounting costs relating to a block of flats with dangerous cladding could lead to a local authority lending millions to a council-owned company – money it admits might not be fully paid back
15 Jun 21Kensington & Chelsea’s Grenfell tragedy response means opening up to residents over the viability of new homes.
7 Jun 21City of Edinburgh Council will progress with a £30m housing pilot which could see former council homes sold back to the authority to cover essential repairs.
4 Jun 21Regulators have threatened to close down Luton Borough Council’s wholly-owned housing development company after it failed to file its accounts.
24 May 21The Grenfell Tower fire has so far cost the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea £406m, documents have revealed.
17 May 21Torbay Council proposes borrowing at least £45m to lend to a recently-created housing subsidiary, to help boost the number of affordable homes in the borough.
14 May 21The London Borough of Newham has approved plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds in the next three years to regenerate and add to its housing stock.
30 Apr 21Property developers will pay at least £2bn towards removing unsafe cladding under new government proposals.
23 Apr 21The government’s Green Homes Grant scheme paid out £196m, less than 10% of its original £2bn envelope, before it was scrapped last month.
15 Apr 21Local authorities and industry bodies are against the proposed changes to the annual housing growth threshold for payment under the New Homes Bonus.
13 Apr 21Councillors have voted to reject a £29.4m grant from the government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund despite their authority submitting a successful bid.
8 Apr 21Lewes District Council and Eastbourne Borough Council have announced plans for a £110m prefabricated housing project on mainly council-owned land.
24 Mar 21The New Homes Bonus needs reform – but government proposals would be better combined with a systematic shake-up of council finances, says Tracy Bingham.
19 Mar 21Councils will be allowed to hold Right to Buy receipts for five years before investing them under new government plans.
