Local government entities are under serious financial pressure, and procurement is tasked with helping to reduce spend.
11/06/2025 - 13:49
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled her spending review, promising £39 billion for social and affordable housing, an extension to free scho
11/06/2025 - 08:39
The government has announced it will repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824 by Spring next year, meaning rough sleeping is no longer a criminal offence.
10/06/2025 - 09:52
The government has announced that everyone over the State Pension age in England and Wales with an income of, or below, £35,000 a year will b
10/06/2025 - 09:34
A new AI tool which can scan hundreds of files in seconds is being rolled out to speed up planning permissions.
02/06/2025 - 09:30
The government has announced more than £1.5 billion extra support for accommodation for UK Armed Forces, which will be part of the upcoming Strategic Defence Review (SDR), and bring military accommodation funding up to £7 billion this Parliament.
30/05/2025 - 10:09
The Welsh government have made progress on providing more social homes for Swansea, having agreed the sale of plots of land.
29/05/2025 - 10:10
The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has published three regulatory judgements on the London Borough of Brent.
28/05/2025 - 10:47
Smaller and medium-sized housebuilders will benefit from loosening government regulations, to speed up development on smaller sites across the UK.
27/05/2025 - 09:46
The government has announced major changes that housebuilders must follow, which include developers having to declare delivery timeframes before they receive planning permission, ensuring that sites aren’t left half-finished for years.
20/05/2025 - 09:35
According to provisional figures, Homes England has beaten its annual targets for the number of houses started, completed, and potential homes unlocked in 2024-25, which is a key part of the government’s mission to deliver 1.5 million homes
19/05/2025 - 11:48
A new briefing by Centre for Cities sets out five anti-supply measures that the think tank urges the government to adopt, should it wish to reach its target of building 1.5 million new homes.
19/05/2025 - 09:44
The Welsh government has expanded its Minimum Digital Living Standard, which encourages the minimum level of digital inclusion for people in social housing, helping them to become more confident with technology.
16/05/2025 - 10:45
The Scottish Government has highlighted a range of measures it has taken to increase investment in housebuilding and help reduce the number of hous
16/05/2025 - 10:36
The Welsh Government has made available £24 million in loan funding to unlock land for housing development, and deliver more than 600 new hom
13/05/2025 - 11:32
The Scottish Government has announced a new partnership programme to help prevent people from becoming homeless.
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