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What will social housing providers need to address in 2024?

|Date: 4 January, 2024

What will social housing providers need to address in 2024?

Winckworth Sherwood’s Social Housing team points to the five things social housing providers will need to ...

Winckworth Sherwood’s Social Housing team points to the five things social housing providers will need to consider in the year ahead. New regulatory frameworks 2024 will see many of the key provisions ...

4 January, 2024
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Housing associations must act on RAAC for tenant safety, says social housing lawyers Winckworth Sherwood

|Date: 8 September, 2023

Housing associations must act on RAAC for tenant safety, says social housing lawyers Winckworth Sherwood

Housing associations are urged to urgently check building specifications and drawings for the use of Rein ...

Housing associations are urged to urgently check building specifications and drawings for the use of Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in home construction. Where RAAC is found immediate s ...

8 September, 2023
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Insurers likely to exclude RAAC claims, say lawyers Winckworth Sherwood

|Date: 5 September, 2023

Insurers likely to exclude RAAC claims, say lawyers Winckworth Sherwood

The use of RAAC is likely to be widespread, affecting many buildings constructed between the 1950s and 19 ...

The use of RAAC is likely to be widespread, affecting many buildings constructed between the 1950s and 1990s. Building owners with defective RAAC are likely to look to their insurers. And as with defe ...

5 September, 2023
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Social Housing (Regulation) Act receives Royal Assent

|Date: 24 July, 2023

Social Housing (Regulation) Act receives Royal Assent

Social housing lawyers at Winckworth Sherwood comment on the Social Housing (Regulation) Act which receiv ...

Social housing lawyers at Winckworth Sherwood comment on the Social Housing (Regulation) Act which received Royal Assent on the 20th July. The long-awaited Social Housing (Regulation) Act received Roy ...

24 July, 2023
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Legal Update | Signed, sealed, delivered: No more!

|Date: 21 June, 2023

Legal Update | Signed, sealed, delivered: No more!

Matt Cowen, Senior Associate at Winckworth Sherwood, discusses the electronic signing of documents and th ...

Matt Cowen, Senior Associate at Winckworth Sherwood, discusses the electronic signing of documents and the factors housing associations need to consider when adopting this approach. Many housing assoc ...

21 June, 2023
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Social housing managers must now obtain qualifications

|Date: 9 March, 2023

Social housing managers must now obtain qualifications

Social housing qualifications ‘no silver bullet’, says law firm Winckworth Sherwood. The Department for L ...

Social housing qualifications ‘no silver bullet’, says law firm Winckworth Sherwood. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has confirmed that social housing managers must now obtain ...

9 March, 2023
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What will social housing providers need to address in 2023?

|Date: 5 January, 2023

What will social housing providers need to address in 2023?

Challenging economic conditions and the Government’s legislative agenda will dominate much of 2023 creati ...

Challenging economic conditions and the Government’s legislative agenda will dominate much of 2023 creating continued challenges for social housing providers. Here, Winckworth Sherwood’s social housin ...

5 January, 2023
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Winckworth Sherwood advise Sovereign on £17.6m shopping centre acquisition opening door to 350 new homes

|Date: 17 October, 2022

Winckworth Sherwood advise Sovereign on £17.6m shopping centre acquisition opening door to 350 new homes

Winckworth Sherwood’s Social Housing team has advised Sovereign Housing Association on the purchase of th ...

Winckworth Sherwood’s Social Housing team has advised Sovereign Housing Association on the purchase of the Princes Mead Shopping Centre and two adjacent retail assets in Farnborough for £17.6m. The pu ...

17 October, 2022
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Legal Update | Winkworth Sherwood discuss the impact of rent reforms

|Date: 16 August, 2022

Legal Update | Winkworth Sherwood discuss the impact of rent reforms

Charlotte Cook, Partner in the Social Housing team at Winckworth Sherwood, considers whether rent reforms ...

Charlotte Cook, Partner in the Social Housing team at Winckworth Sherwood, considers whether rent reforms will drive up demand for social and local government housing. The Government in its May Queen’ ...

16 August, 2022
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Winckworth Sherwood advise Tower Hamlets Community Housing on fire safety funding facility

|Date: 25 July, 2022

Winckworth Sherwood advise Tower Hamlets Community Housing on fire safety funding facility

Winckworth Sherwood’s Social Housing Finance team has advised Tower Hamlets Community Housing on both the ...

Winckworth Sherwood’s Social Housing Finance team has advised Tower Hamlets Community Housing on both the finance and property aspects in securing a new funding facility with Santander. The new fundin ...

25 July, 2022
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