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£39bn for affordable housing offers once-in-a-generation opportunity to address social housing challenge

|Date: 16 June, 2025

£39bn for affordable housing offers once-in-a-generation opportunity to address social housing challenge

Last week Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced £39bn in the Spending Review for affordable housing — a much ...

Last week Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced £39bn in the Spending Review for affordable housing — a much needed financial boost which has been described as a 'historic and ground-breaking settlement' ...

16 June, 2025
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Pausing housebuilding could counter loss of social homes and associated costs

|Date: 20 May, 2025

Pausing housebuilding could counter loss of social homes and associated costs

Halting the building of new homes could help to address the dramatic decrease in the number and share of ...

Halting the building of new homes could help to address the dramatic decrease in the number and share of social homes, by reallocating resources to upkeep the existing housing stock and preventing its ...

20 May, 2025
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Construction sees spring surge as housing powers ahead

|Date: 14 May, 2025

Construction sees spring surge as housing powers ahead

Housing fuels construction growth despite non-residential dip, according to latest data from Glenigan, wh ...

Housing fuels construction growth despite non-residential dip, according to latest data from Glenigan, which has released the May 2025 edition of its Construction Index. The Index focuses on the three ...

14 May, 2025
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100% affordable development in Reading reaches highest phase

|Date: 2 May, 2024

100% affordable development in Reading reaches highest phase

The construction of 40 new affordable homes on Caversham Road in Reading has reached a major milestone wi ...

The construction of 40 new affordable homes on Caversham Road in Reading has reached a major milestone with ‘topping out’ being achieved. Mayor of Reading, Cllr Tony Page, and local Abbey ward council ...

2 May, 2024
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JV North warns of housebuilding slowdown without funding certainty

|Date: 23 April, 2024

JV North warns of housebuilding slowdown without funding certainty

JV North is warning housebuilding will slow unless funding certainty is given beyond the current Affordab ...

JV North is warning housebuilding will slow unless funding certainty is given beyond the current Affordable Homes Programme end date. With less than two years left of the 2021/26 Affordable Homes Prog ...

23 April, 2024
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Taylor Lane Timber Frame | Fabric first and MMC Category 2 timber frame housing solutions

|Date: 16 April, 2024

Taylor Lane Timber Frame | Fabric first and MMC Category 2 timber frame housing solutions

Blane Pannell, Sales and Marketing Director at Taylor Lane Timber Frame, discusses the importance of taki ...

Blane Pannell, Sales and Marketing Director at Taylor Lane Timber Frame, discusses the importance of taking a fabric first approach to building new homes and the benefits of opting for MMC Category 2 ...

16 April, 2024
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Moat secures £100m funding to accelerate sustainability ambitions

|Date: 2 April, 2024

Moat secures £100m funding to accelerate sustainability ambitions

Moat, one of the South East’s largest housing associations, has secured a £100m sustainability linked loa ...

Moat, one of the South East’s largest housing associations, has secured a £100m sustainability linked loan facility from Lloyds Bank to retrofit its existing stock and boost housebuilding across the r ...

2 April, 2024
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Building firm foundations: bricklayer students inspired with tour of Lovell development

|Date: 18 March, 2024

Building firm foundations: bricklayer students inspired with tour of Lovell development

Construction students were given invaluable insight to the world of housebuilding, with a tour of Waterda ...

Construction students were given invaluable insight to the world of housebuilding, with a tour of Waterdale Gardens — the latest partnership development in Liverpool, from Lovell and Cobalt Housing. U ...

18 March, 2024
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Boroughs concerned by decision on Right to Buy rules and emphasise ‘desperate need’ for replacement homes

|Date: 12 March, 2024

Boroughs concerned by decision on Right to Buy rules and emphasise ‘desperate need’ for replacement homes

London Councils has expressed “extreme concern” at the Government’s decision to stop letting local author ...

London Councils has expressed “extreme concern” at the Government’s decision to stop letting local authorities keep all money raised from council house sales, warning that it will undermine efforts to ...

12 March, 2024
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Over £50bn could be added to the economy through investing in social housing

|Date: 28 February, 2024

Over £50bn could be added to the economy through investing in social housing

According to research conducted by CEBR for Shelter and the National Housing Federation, the next governm ...

According to research conducted by CEBR for Shelter and the National Housing Federation, the next government could add £51.2bn to the economy, including £12bn profit to the taxpayer, by building 90,00 ...

28 February, 2024
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