The national secretariat of UK regional development agencies has revealed a list of more than 500 RDA assets that are due to be sold by Communities and Local Government.
Assets up for sale include science parks, brownfield land and a greyhound stadium in Portsmouth. This document lists all the addresses of …

Pat Ritchie has today been appointed as interim chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA).
Ritchie is the HCA’s current director for the north-east and will take over from Sir Bob Kerslake as chief executive on 1 November.
Kerslake is moving to the Department for Communities and Local Government, where …

Homes and Communities Agency chief executive Sir Bob Kerslake will be replaced by an existing director when he leaves the quango on 1 November.
Kerslake told PublicPropertyUK.com that succession plans were already being made and an internal appointment would announced “within weeks”.
On Monday, cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell announced Kerslake’s appointment as …

Congratulations are in order for Sir Bob Kerslake after he landed himself a very senior role in Whitehall.
The position of permanent secretary is a prestigious one. While his profile will be more subdued than was required of him at the Homes and Communities Agency, his influence should be significant.
His announcement …

Homes and Communities Agency chief executive Sir Bob Kerslake is leaving to become permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Sir Peter Housden previously held the role but left the department in June to become permanent secretary to the Scottish government.
Kerslake said: “I am honoured and excited by …

Berkeley Group has become the first housebuilder to commit to the Homes and Communities Agency’s private-rented sector initiative in a joint venture that will create 555 new homes for rent by June 2012.
The venture involves Berkeley receiving £45.6m of HCA funding – £29m from the agency’s Kickstart programme – to …

The Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation is set to escape government plans to roll its powers into the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), civil servants have indicated.
The body, which was set up in 2003 by the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) to regenerate the Thurrock area, is now …

The £180m Rathbone Market regeneration scheme in Newham in London has secured £13m funding to enable work on the project to begin.
Development of the Rathbone Market scheme can now begin after the developer, the English Cities Fund, secured the money from the London Homes and Communities Agency. The funding was …

Birmingham City Council has won Homes and Communities Agency funding for 234 new homes by handing over seven council-owned sites across the city.
The council is using land worth £8.1m to secure an investment of up to £4.7m for housing under the HCA’s Public Land Initiative.
The new homes will be delivered …

The HCA London Board, which is chaired by the mayor, has pledged to commit more than £51.7m of investment for 16 housing and regeneration schemes, which will deliver 518 affordable homes in the capital.
The schemes, which were part of the previous government’s housing pledge, have been at risk because of …