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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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Sod cutting held at next phase of Laurieston Living

|Date: 5 June, 2018

Sod cutting held at next phase of Laurieston Living

A ceremonial sod cutting has taken place at the Laurieston Living regeneration site in the Gorbals area o ...

A ceremonial sod cutting has taken place at the Laurieston Living regeneration site in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Work is underway on the second phase at Laurieston Living, with a total of 173 priva ...

5 June, 2018
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Images of the Birmingham 2022 Games Village released

|Date: 5 June, 2018

Images of the Birmingham 2022 Games Village released

The transformation of North-west Birmingham will be significantly accelerated thanks to the housing legac ...

The transformation of North-west Birmingham will be significantly accelerated thanks to the housing legacy from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The Games Village, which comprises accommodation ...

5 June, 2018
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Sadiq Khan to kickstart major council housebuilding comeback in London

|Date: 16 May, 2018

Sadiq Khan to kickstart major council housebuilding comeback in London

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, launches a new programme to help get 10,000 new council homes underway o ...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, launches a new programme to help get 10,000 new council homes underway over the next four years. In what will be the first ever City Hall programme dedicated to suppor ...

16 May, 2018
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Setting social rents beyond 2020

|Date: 15 May, 2018

Setting social rents beyond 2020

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing discusses setting social ...

Matthew Warburton, Policy Advisor at the Association of Retained Council Housing discusses setting social rents beyond 2020. The Government was right to conclude last autumn that the policy of cutting ...

15 May, 2018
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