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Legal Update | RTB receipts drive resurgence in council housing

|Date: 13 June, 2022

Legal Update | RTB receipts drive resurgence in council housing

Local authorities are increasingly using right to buy receipts to purchase rather than build council hous ...

Local authorities are increasingly using right to buy receipts to purchase rather than build council housing, says Charlotte Cook, Partner in the Social Housing team at Winckworth Sherwood. Local auth ...

13 June, 2022
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New measures to level up England’s cities and provide new homes

|Date: 17 December, 2020

New measures to level up England’s cities and provide new homes

New measures to level up England’s cities, recover from the pandemic and help provide much-needed new hom ...

New measures to level up England’s cities, recover from the pandemic and help provide much-needed new homes have been set out by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. Following a consultation launched in ...

17 December, 2020
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ALMOs ready to meet post-pandemic explosion in housing need

|Date: 28 April, 2020

ALMOs ready to meet post-pandemic explosion in housing need

Council-owned housing companies ramped up their new-build housing targets by more than 70% in the space o ...

Council-owned housing companies ramped up their new-build housing targets by more than 70% in the space of just 12 months, a survey published by the National Federation of ALMOS (NFA) reveals. “While ...

28 April, 2020
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Six things social housing providers need to consider in 2020

|Date: 10 January, 2020

Six things social housing providers need to consider in 2020

2019 has been one of the most tumultuous years of the past decade, with Brexit again dominating the natio ...

2019 has been one of the most tumultuous years of the past decade, with Brexit again dominating the national conversation. But social housing providers have had to contend with much more. What does 20 ...

10 January, 2020
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LGA responds to ONS figures on the number of deaths of homeless people

|Date: 1 October, 2019

LGA responds to ONS figures on the number of deaths of homeless people

According to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures, there has been a record annual incr ...

According to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures, there has been a record annual increase in the numbers of homeless deaths in England and Wales — an estimated 726 people died in 2 ...

1 October, 2019
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Right to Buy rules undermining council efforts to boost housebuilding

|Date: 23 August, 2019

Right to Buy rules undermining council efforts to boost housebuilding

Housebuilding efforts by councils — who built more homes last year than they have for a quarter of a cent ...

Housebuilding efforts by councils — who built more homes last year than they have for a quarter of a century — risk being undermined without reform to the Right to Buy (RTB) scheme in next month’s Spe ...

23 August, 2019
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Addison Act at 100 | An investment in council housing is an investment in Britain

|Date: 1 August, 2019

Addison Act at 100 | An investment in council housing is an investment in Britain

The Addison Act, which paved the way for council house building on a large scale, marks its 100-year anni ...

The Addison Act, which paved the way for council house building on a large scale, marks its 100-year anniversary As the oldest construction trade association in the United Kingdom, the National Federa ...

1 August, 2019
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County Durham housing association beats Right to Buy

|Date: 29 July, 2019

County Durham housing association beats Right to Buy

A County Durham housing association has overturned the loss of affordable homes through ‘Right to Buy’ fo ...

A County Durham housing association has overturned the loss of affordable homes through ‘Right to Buy’ for the first time since the 1980s. Thousands of much-needed affordable homes have been lost to f ...

29 July, 2019
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Councils warn permitted development a risk to health and wellbeing

|Date: 16 July, 2019

Councils warn permitted development a risk to health and wellbeing

Councils across England are warning that homes created using permitted development rights are a potential ...

Councils across England are warning that homes created using permitted development rights are a potential threat to people’s health and wellbeing, with the most vulnerable people in society being more ...

16 July, 2019
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Nottingham City Council to buy more homes to meet housing need

|Date: 8 July, 2019

Nottingham City Council to buy more homes to meet housing need

Nottingham City Council has approved plans to buy back more than 250 former council houses. The four-year ...

Nottingham City Council has approved plans to buy back more than 250 former council houses. The four-year scheme — approved at the Council’s Executive Board meeting in June — will involve more than 30 ...

8 July, 2019
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