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Much needed affordable homes planned as part of £2bn funding package

|Date: 26 August, 2025

Much needed affordable homes planned as part of £2bn funding package

One of the UK’s largest housing associations has outlined plans to build over 220 affordable homes as par ...

One of the UK’s largest housing associations has outlined plans to build over 220 affordable homes as part of the Government’s £2bn cash injection to its Plan for Change programme. Home Group, which h ...

26 August, 2025
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A council housing renaissance?

|Date: 7 August, 2025

A council housing renaissance?

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

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), discusses the Government’s new homes target, the Spending Review and the potential to reinvigorate council hous ...

7 August, 2025
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Liverpool City Council and Torus announce partnership to accelerate housebuilding

|Date: 5 August, 2025

Liverpool City Council and Torus announce partnership to accelerate housebuilding

A new partnership between Liverpool City Council and housing association Torus has been announced that wi ...

A new partnership between Liverpool City Council and housing association Torus has been announced that will accelerate housebuilding. Liverpool City Council’s Cabinet agreed the two organisations coul ...

5 August, 2025
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Redesigning the relationship between housing needs and housing delivery

|Date: 18 July, 2025

Redesigning the relationship between housing needs and housing delivery

Are we building homes for the sake of building? Dr Anna Pagani, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, ...

Are we building homes for the sake of building? Dr Anna Pagani, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, discusses how a housebuilding moratorium could provide the homes we actually need. The severit ...

18 July, 2025
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Livv’s road to net zero pilot kicks off as customers move into new homes

|Date: 16 July, 2025

Livv’s road to net zero pilot kicks off as customers move into new homes

Livv Housing Group has welcomed customers into 15 new affordable rent homes at Copthorne Walk, Kirkby, Me ...

Livv Housing Group has welcomed customers into 15 new affordable rent homes at Copthorne Walk, Kirkby, Merseyside, marking the start of its pioneering ‘road to net-zero’ pilot project. Over the next 1 ...

16 July, 2025
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JV North appoints contractors and consultants to £500m social housebuilding framework

|Date: 30 June, 2025

JV North appoints contractors and consultants to £500m social housebuilding framework

Social housebuilding consortium, JV North, has announced the contractors and consultants appointed to its ...

Social housebuilding consortium, JV North, has announced the contractors and consultants appointed to its £500m framework. JV North has 14 housing association members across the North West and procure ...

30 June, 2025
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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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