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Latest £100m council and housing association ‘disruptors’ framework launches

|Date: 5 February, 2024

Latest £100m council and housing association ‘disruptors’ framework launches

21 suppliers have won spots on the third generation Social Housing Emerging Disruptors (SHED) framework, ...

21 suppliers have won spots on the third generation Social Housing Emerging Disruptors (SHED) framework, which enables housing associations and councils to compliantly buy innovative services from sta ...

5 February, 2024
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Hager | Electrical safety and compliance in social housing

|Date: 21 December, 2023

Hager | Electrical safety and compliance in social housing

Following changes in legislation to standardise processes across the board, greater scrutiny is being pla ...

Following changes in legislation to standardise processes across the board, greater scrutiny is being placed on electrical safety and compliance in the local authority sector. Therefore, manufacturers ...

21 December, 2023
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HomeLINK | Connected technology

|Date: 23 February, 2023

HomeLINK | Connected technology

Sam Collier, Sustainability & Ethics Lead for HomeLINK discusses how connected technology can support ...

Sam Collier, Sustainability & Ethics Lead for HomeLINK discusses how connected technology can support the health, safety and wellbeing of social housing residents. Social housing providers are fac ...

23 February, 2023
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Industry Comment | Rent reform impact on councils

|Date: 10 August, 2022

Industry Comment | Rent reform impact on councils

Private renters’ reform — what does it mean for councils? Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Associ ...

Private renters’ reform — what does it mean for councils? Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), discusses the A Fairer Private Rented Sector White Pa ...

10 August, 2022
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Industry Comment | Council housing fit for the future

|Date: 22 June, 2021

Industry Comment | Council housing fit for the future

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), discusses the la ...

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), discusses the latest developments in government policy initiatives relating to building safety, Decent Homes an ...

22 June, 2021
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Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust applies the benefits of commercial heating to Wycliffe End residential development

|Date: 27 April, 2017

Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust applies the benefits of commercial heating to Wycliffe End residential development

An energy-efficient commercial heating system is helping Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust achieve savings ...

An energy-efficient commercial heating system is helping Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust achieve savings for its social housing properties. Alpha Heating Innovation has all the details. Housing associ ...

27 April, 2017
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The value of planned repair and maintenance programmes

|Date: 19 April, 2017

The value of planned repair and maintenance programmes

Marion Diable, Director at HSFM, looks at why planned repair and maintenance programmes help housing asso ...

Marion Diable, Director at HSFM, looks at why planned repair and maintenance programmes help housing associations create properties where people want to live, and deliver better value for money. Housi ...

19 April, 2017
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Living Home Standard tackles affordability and decency

|Date: 19 October, 2016

Living Home Standard tackles affordability and decency

Four in 10 people (43%) in Britain live in homes which fail to meet the ‘Living Home Standard’ — a new me ...

Four in 10 people (43%) in Britain live in homes which fail to meet the ‘Living Home Standard’ — a new measure of what makes an acceptable home, developed as part of ground-breaking new research relea ...

19 October, 2016
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