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Industry Comment | Setting ambitions for housing

|Date: 13 October, 2020

Industry Comment | Setting ambitions for housing

What kind of post-pandemic stimulus do we need, asks Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association ...

What kind of post-pandemic stimulus do we need, asks Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH). The Government has spent the last six months in fire-fight ...

13 October, 2020
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Industry Comment | Zero carbon future

|Date: 16 March, 2020

Industry Comment | Zero carbon future

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH) considers a zero ...

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH) considers a zero carbon future for social housing. In May 2019, Parliament, with the support of MPs from all maj ...

16 March, 2020
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Industry Comment | Maintaining housebuilding momentum

|Date: 11 February, 2020

Industry Comment | Maintaining housebuilding momentum

Without debt caps, councils will build more homes says Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Associati ...

Without debt caps, councils will build more homes says Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH). Theresa May’s announcement, at the Conservative Party Co ...

11 February, 2020
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Industry Comment | You win some, you lose some

|Date: 5 November, 2019

Industry Comment | You win some, you lose some

In the same week that the prestigious Stirling Prize for architecture was awarded to a social housing sch ...

In the same week that the prestigious Stirling Prize for architecture was awarded to a social housing scheme in Norwich, council Treasurers were informed by Treasury that new loans from the Public Wor ...

5 November, 2019
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Industry comment | Will Boris back council housing?

|Date: 4 September, 2019

Industry comment | Will Boris back council housing?

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

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), considers the impact of the recent ministerial changes and the potential of a no deal Brexit on the affordable ...

4 September, 2019
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Industry Comment | Grenfell, two years on

|Date: 9 July, 2019

Industry Comment | Grenfell, two years on

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

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), discusses the progress made by government to make buildings safer following the tragic Grenfell disaster and th ...

9 July, 2019
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Industry Comment | Public spending priorities

|Date: 17 June, 2019

Industry Comment | Public spending priorities

With still no news on the 2019 Spending Review, Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of R ...

With still no news on the 2019 Spending Review, Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), discusses the need for a proper review of public spending prior ...

17 June, 2019
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Industry Comment | Celebrating council housing

|Date: 15 May, 2019

Industry Comment | Celebrating council housing

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH) looks back on 100 ...

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH) looks back on 100 years of council housing. This July marks the centenary of the passage of the 1919 Housing Act ...

15 May, 2019
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Industry Comment | DWP and the Earth’s orbit

|Date: 15 April, 2019

Industry Comment | DWP and the Earth’s orbit

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

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH) discusses the issues surrounding rent policy. Physicists have established that the Earth takes 365.2422 days to ...

15 April, 2019
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Industry Comment | Waiting Game

|Date: 18 March, 2019

Industry Comment | Waiting Game

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

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing (ARCH), looks at the impact of Brexit on the council housing renaissance. In my last article for LABM I argued that mee ...

18 March, 2019
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