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believe housing discusses affordable housing provision in remote rural areas

|Date: 5 July, 2019

believe housing discusses affordable housing provision in remote rural areas

The very concept of social housing conjures visions of tower blocks or big estates of semi-detached house ...

The very concept of social housing conjures visions of tower blocks or big estates of semi-detached houses, but in the remote North Pennines affordable homes look very different indeed, as Mark Pearce ...

5 July, 2019
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Supplementary Guidance | Housing First Know-How

|Date: 4 July, 2019

Supplementary Guidance | Housing First Know-How

‘Homelessness is a problem with a solution and the solution is housing.’ This is a statement from the fir ...

‘Homelessness is a problem with a solution and the solution is housing.’ This is a statement from the first in the Housing First Know-How series that has been carefully prepared for, and in consultati ...

4 July, 2019
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Hyperoptic | Promoting inclusion

|Date: 1 July, 2019

Hyperoptic | Promoting inclusion

Dan Craven, Head of Sales for Hyperoptic, considers how local authorities can help eliminate digital excl ...

Dan Craven, Head of Sales for Hyperoptic, considers how local authorities can help eliminate digital exclusion. It is estimated that 11.3 million adults in the UK are digitally excluded and 37% of the ...

1 July, 2019
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Public house makes way for social housing in Dinnington

|Date: 28 June, 2019

Public house makes way for social housing in Dinnington

People on Rotherham’s Council Housing Register will be some of the first to benefit from a new housing de ...

People on Rotherham’s Council Housing Register will be some of the first to benefit from a new housing development to be built on the site of the former Lordens Hotel in Dinnington. The Arches Housing ...

28 June, 2019
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LGA responds to Prime Minister’s housing announcement

|Date: 27 June, 2019

LGA responds to Prime Minister’s housing announcement

Responding to the Prime Minister’s call for new design laws to ensure high-quality homes and a pledge for ...

Responding to the Prime Minister’s call for new design laws to ensure high-quality homes and a pledge for more social housing, the LGA’s Housing spokesman, Cllr Martin Tett, said: “There is a critical ...

27 June, 2019
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Housing & Regeneration | Zero carbon agenda

|Date: 25 June, 2019

Housing & Regeneration | Zero carbon agenda

Award-winning social housing proves a point for Passivhaus. Anastasia Mylona reviews a social housing dev ...

Award-winning social housing proves a point for Passivhaus. Anastasia Mylona reviews a social housing development designed to provide comfortable homes with minimal running costs. The Cameron Close de ...

25 June, 2019
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Delivering much needed social rent council homes at Colville Estate

|Date: 17 June, 2019

Delivering much needed social rent council homes at Colville Estate

As part of Hackney’s ambitious building programme to build genuinely affordable new council homes, Higgin ...

As part of Hackney’s ambitious building programme to build genuinely affordable new council homes, Higgins has delivered 70 new social rent council homes at Colville Estate for existing residents who ...

17 June, 2019
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PCA training: Taking the in-house route to managing damp in buildings

|Date: 17 June, 2019

PCA training: Taking the in-house route to managing damp in buildings

The problem of damp in the social housing sector is one of the most common complaints tenants make about ...

The problem of damp in the social housing sector is one of the most common complaints tenants make about their property. With this in mind, national trade body the Property Care Association (PCA) has ...

17 June, 2019
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New research identifies high-rise as answer to social housing crisis

|Date: 20 May, 2019

New research identifies high-rise as answer to social housing crisis

The answer to the UK wide social housing crisis could be solved by the intelligent design and build of hi ...

The answer to the UK wide social housing crisis could be solved by the intelligent design and build of high-rise buildings, according to a report from water solutions provider, Uponor. It is predicte ...

20 May, 2019
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Guest Comment | US investment in social housing

|Date: 9 May, 2019

Guest Comment | US investment in social housing

With two housing associations announcing lucrative private placement deals with North American investors ...

With two housing associations announcing lucrative private placement deals with North American investors within weeks of each other, Bromford’s Head of Treasury Imran Mubeen discusses its significance ...

9 May, 2019
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