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Greengauge delivers ambitious M&E design for UK’s largest 100% Passivhaus housing scheme

|Date: 7 March, 2019

Greengauge delivers ambitious M&E design for UK’s largest 100% Passivhaus housing scheme

Building physics and services engineer Greengauge has delivered an ambitious M&E design for the new G ...

Building physics and services engineer Greengauge has delivered an ambitious M&E design for the new Goldsmith Street project for Norwich City Council, set to be the largest 100% Passivhaus, 100% s ...

7 March, 2019
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CIH predicts that nearly 200k homes for social rent will be lost by 2020

|Date: 6 February, 2019

CIH predicts that nearly 200k homes for social rent will be lost by 2020

New analysis from the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) reveals that more than 165,000 homes for socia ...

New analysis from the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) reveals that more than 165,000 homes for social rent have been lost in just six years. The CIH is predicting that loss will reach 199,000 by ...

6 February, 2019
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Homes England funding helps Watford partnership lead the way in social housing provision

|Date: 14 December, 2018

Homes England funding helps Watford partnership lead the way in social housing provision

Watford Community Housing has secured £3.3m in funding from Homes England, to help deliver its ambitious ...

Watford Community Housing has secured £3.3m in funding from Homes England, to help deliver its ambitious social housing programme with Watford Borough Council. Working in partnership, the two organisa ...

14 December, 2018
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Scape Group Explain Their ‘Future of Social Homes for Rent’ Report

|Date: 6 November, 2018

Scape Group Explain Their ‘Future of Social Homes for Rent’ Report

The average local authority in England would like to build 1,800 homes for social rent every year, accord ...

The average local authority in England would like to build 1,800 homes for social rent every year, according to research from public sector procurement specialist Scape Group. This is 18 times more th ...

6 November, 2018
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Mayor boosts affordable housing to 50% on Olympic legacy sites

|Date: 6 September, 2018

Mayor boosts affordable housing to 50% on Olympic legacy sites

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced that 3,000 new homes will be built on the remaining three ...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced that 3,000 new homes will be built on the remaining three Olympic legacy sites at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park — with the level of affordable housing boo ...

6 September, 2018
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Bield Housing & Care officially launches new Fleming Place development in Edinburgh

|Date: 3 September, 2018

Bield Housing & Care officially launches new Fleming Place development in Edinburgh

Scotland’s leading housing provider has officially launched its newest Edinburgh development, providing a ...

Scotland’s leading housing provider has officially launched its newest Edinburgh development, providing affordable accommodation for more than 100 people. Bield Housing & Care cut the ribbon on it ...

3 September, 2018
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Planning permission granted for 29 new affordable canalside homes in Hertfordshire

|Date: 30 August, 2018

Planning permission granted for 29 new affordable canalside homes in Hertfordshire

Multi-disciplinary design practice, rg+p has secured planning permission from Dacorum Borough Council for ...

Multi-disciplinary design practice, rg+p has secured planning permission from Dacorum Borough Council for a new housing scheme in the Hertfordshire village of Apsley, to the south-west of Hemel Hempst ...

30 August, 2018
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Catalyst starts on 100% affordable Oxford residential scheme

|Date: 17 July, 2018

Catalyst starts on 100% affordable Oxford residential scheme

Catalyst has started work on a 100% affordable residential scheme in Temple Cowley, Oxford. The scheme wi ...

Catalyst has started work on a 100% affordable residential scheme in Temple Cowley, Oxford. The scheme will deliver 48 homes in total, a mix of 35 one-, two- and three-bedroom flats and 13 three- and ...

17 July, 2018
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Harriett Baldwin MP visits Great Witley village scheme to discuss affordable rural housing

|Date: 18 June, 2018

Harriett Baldwin MP visits Great Witley village scheme to discuss affordable rural housing

MP Harriett Baldwin joined social housing provider Stonewater for a tour of a small development of 10 aff ...

MP Harriett Baldwin joined social housing provider Stonewater for a tour of a small development of 10 affordable village homes in Glendower Way, Great Witley where she met residents. Stonewater’s rece ...

18 June, 2018
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Mayor of London calls for social housing tenant to be appointed as National Commissioner

|Date: 6 June, 2018

Mayor of London calls for social housing tenant to be appointed as National Commissioner

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has called on the Government to appoint a social housing tenant as a nat ...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has called on the Government to appoint a social housing tenant as a national Commissioner for Social Housing Residents. The Commissioner would act as a watchdog for s ...

6 June, 2018
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