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UK housing net zero opportunities and challenges

|Date: 24 May, 2024

UK housing net zero opportunities and challenges

Mears Group has launched its first Decarbonisation Report, which lays out the scale of the opportunity an ...

Mears Group has launched its first Decarbonisation Report, which lays out the scale of the opportunity and challenge facing the housing sector as it works towards reaching the UK's net zero targets. B ...

24 May, 2024
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Deepening chasm in social housing provision between north and south, research warns

|Date: 2 May, 2024

Deepening chasm in social housing provision between north and south, research warns

Social housing stock among England’s northern local authorities is set to plummet by an additional 30% by ...

Social housing stock among England’s northern local authorities is set to plummet by an additional 30% by 2040 compared to their southern counterparts, groundbreaking research by socio-economic expert ...

2 May, 2024
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Carter Jonas | Housing targets

|Date: 22 February, 2023

Carter Jonas | Housing targets

Matt Hare, Partner at Carter Jonas (Cambridge), discusses the consequences of an absence of housing targe ...

Matt Hare, Partner at Carter Jonas (Cambridge), discusses the consequences of an absence of housing targets on levelling up and regeneration. Under its many guises — three Prime Ministers and three Se ...

22 February, 2023
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UK’s broken planning system will starve rural communities of affordable homes

|Date: 15 December, 2022

UK’s broken planning system will starve rural communities of affordable homes

With a record 1.2 million households currently on waiting lists for social housing, Dorset-based affordab ...

With a record 1.2 million households currently on waiting lists for social housing, Dorset-based affordable housing specialist AJC Group fears rural communities will be starved of much-needed affordab ...

15 December, 2022
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Southampton City Council approves new Affordable Housing Framework

|Date: 17 March, 2022

Southampton City Council approves new Affordable Housing Framework

On Monday 14th March, Southampton City Council approved the development of a new framework for delivering ...

On Monday 14th March, Southampton City Council approved the development of a new framework for delivering affordable housing in the city which focuses on the disposal of council-owned land to affordab ...

17 March, 2022
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New housing targets ‘jeopardise any ambition to level-up country’

|Date: 15 September, 2020

New housing targets ‘jeopardise any ambition to level-up country’

An updated algorithm designed by government to set how many new homes need to be built in local areas wil ...

An updated algorithm designed by government to set how many new homes need to be built in local areas will lead to London and the south seeing a housing boom while swathes of the north will see fewer ...

15 September, 2020
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A return to Whitehall housing targets risks letting London off the hook says Elphicke

|Date: 7 February, 2017

A return to Whitehall housing targets risks letting London off the hook says Elphicke

Former government housing adviser Natalie Elphicke brands the Housing White Paper "technically strong rat ...

Former government housing adviser Natalie Elphicke brands the Housing White Paper "technically strong rather than radical." Elphicke warns that a return to Whitehall building targets "could let London ...

7 February, 2017
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Fund to unlock new homes announced in Autumn Statement

|Date: 23 November, 2016

Fund to unlock new homes announced in Autumn Statement

Earlier today Chancellor Philip Hammond announced government’s Autumn Statement, which includes a new £2. ...

Earlier today Chancellor Philip Hammond announced government’s Autumn Statement, which includes a new £2.3bn infrastructure fund to unlock land for 100,000 new homes in high demand areas, the relaxati ...

23 November, 2016
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