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Milestone for Raven and Legal & General Affordable Home partnership

|Date: 7 October, 2021

Milestone for Raven and Legal & General Affordable Home partnership

Surrey and Sussex-based housing provider Raven Housing Trust has taken management of its first scheme as ...

Surrey and Sussex-based housing provider Raven Housing Trust has taken management of its first scheme as part of its partnership with Legal & General Affordable Homes (LGAH). Raven is one of 14 ho ...

7 October, 2021
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Housing association Coastline Housing announces new Plan

|Date: 29 September, 2021

Housing association Coastline Housing announces new Plan

Local landlord Coastline Housing has unveiled an ambitious new four-year plan committing to building up t ...

Local landlord Coastline Housing has unveiled an ambitious new four-year plan committing to building up to 1,200 new affordable homes and working with others to help solve the county’s housing crisis. ...

29 September, 2021
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Partnership working delivers 49 desperately needed Bedford homes

|Date: 2 August, 2021

Partnership working delivers 49 desperately needed Bedford homes

A Milton Keynes housing association has delivered 49 desperately needed Bedford homes in a bid to tackle ...

A Milton Keynes housing association has delivered 49 desperately needed Bedford homes in a bid to tackle the region’s housing crisis. Kent’s Hill-based Grand Union Housing Group recently completed its ...

2 August, 2021
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Local housing association tackles housing crisis with new Milton Keynes homes

|Date: 13 July, 2021

Local housing association tackles housing crisis with new Milton Keynes homes

A Milton Keynes housing association has delivered desperately needed homes to help tackle the region’s ho ...

A Milton Keynes housing association has delivered desperately needed homes to help tackle the region’s housing crisis. Grand Union Housing Group, based in Kent’s Hill, completed its anticipated Whiteh ...

13 July, 2021
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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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HFI: A radical new housing approach is needed to deliver new 300,000 homes target

|Date: 24 January, 2018

HFI: A radical new housing approach is needed to deliver new 300,000 homes target

The Government has been warned that a radical new housebuilding approach is needed if its new target to b ...

The Government has been warned that a radical new housebuilding approach is needed if its new target to build 300,000 homes a year is to be reached. The Housing & Finance Institute, which works wi ...

24 January, 2018
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Larkfleet Homes establishes organisation to provide affordable housing

|Date: 22 January, 2018

Larkfleet Homes establishes organisation to provide affordable housing

Larkfleet Homes has set up a new organisation to help tackle the housing crisis by providing affordable h ...

Larkfleet Homes has set up a new organisation to help tackle the housing crisis by providing affordable homes to rent. Swift is a ‘registered provider’ of affordable housing which will take homes on L ...

22 January, 2018
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A call for collaboration in timber innovation

|Date: 20 December, 2017

A call for collaboration in timber innovation

Modular construction, using timber as a key element, is a credible solution to fast and sustainable house ...

Modular construction, using timber as a key element, is a credible solution to fast and sustainable housebuilding. However, Metsä Wood believes that more needs to be done in terms of sharing knowledge ...

20 December, 2017
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Delivering the homes required to fix the housing crisis

|Date: 14 November, 2017

Delivering the homes required to fix the housing crisis

The National Housing Federation’s 2017 National Development Conference addressed the shortage of housing ...

The National Housing Federation’s 2017 National Development Conference addressed the shortage of housing provision, and what can be done to increase supply. LABM’s Sophie Taylor discusses the options ...

14 November, 2017
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Stonewater completes 46 affordable homes to help priced-out Dorset locals

|Date: 2 February, 2017

Stonewater completes 46 affordable homes to help priced-out Dorset locals

A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the completion of 46 affordable homes for local people in Pemberly, a ne ...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the completion of 46 affordable homes for local people in Pemberly, a new Stonewater development in Littlemoor, near Weymouth. Picture above from left to right are: Jo ...

2 February, 2017
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