19/02/2024 - 09:35
Local residents will be protected from being pushed out of their communities by excessive short-term lets due to changes in planning rules.
13/02/2024 - 10:06
Building homes on brownfield land is due to increase under a major shake-up to planning rules to boost housebuilding while protecting the Green Belt.
03/07/2023 - 11:10
The outgoing Chairman of the Local Government Association is setting out a six-point plan to which aims to support the delivery of 100 more council homes in every local authority per year.
08/02/2023 - 13:13
Cllr Sharon Thompson: “These homes will be used for temporary accommodation and will not give any of the families greater priority under our allocation policy than other homeless families"
27/01/2023 - 09:29
The work, which is expected to be carried out on hundreds of properties over the coming months, will be aimed at bringing poor quality homes up to the Government’s ‘Decent Homes Standard’.
31/05/2022 - 08:09
A social housing development in Wales is being heated by wallpaper as part of a trial exploring affordable alternatives to radiators and heat pumps
24/05/2022 - 08:08
"I intend to take a personal and direct interest in your association's approach to housing conditions" writes Housing Secretary
24/05/2022 - 06:46
Research identifies 2.3 million homes across England which are valued under £162,000, have an EPC rating below C and are located in ‘levelling up’ areas.
11/05/2022 - 10:24
Government plans to address the rights of tenants and also strengthen the rights of private renters.
09/05/2022 - 08:33
Michael Gove confirms the introduction of “local design codes”
09/05/2022 - 08:07
18,000 affordable houses lost as a result of office-to-residential conversions under permitted development, according to LGA.
04/05/2022 - 10:07
Millions of homes have an insulation age of 1976 or older – costing households up to £930 a year if they don’t make changes soon,
03/05/2022 - 08:19
This latest idea could see 2.5 million households become eligible to buy their homes at a discount of up to 70%
27/04/2022 - 10:23
Shelter says that every seven minutes a private renter in England is handed a Section 21 no-fault eviction notice by their landlord.
22/04/2022 - 15:04
Future homebuyers will see their prospective property bills reduce when a ban on charging ground rent on new leases comes into force in June.
