Articles tagged with: Housing
The administrators of property services firm Connaught believe the amount owed to unsecured creditors could be as much as £100m, the Financial Times reports.
KPMG believed that the social housing maintenance arm of Connaught owed £46m, in addition to £22m owed to HRMC.
But 50,000 invoices have been discovered that had not …
John Rowan & Partners head of affordable housing Mash Halai and A2Dominion regional development manager explain how to use renewable energy technology in affordable housing schemes:
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The Strata Tower in Elephant and Castle (pictured below) – which is the first building to ever include wind turbines as an integral part of …
The government is expected to give the go ahead to up to 26 of the 56 local partnerships that are due to replace regional development agencies.
Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Greater Birmingham are three of the local enterprise partnerships that the government is expected to approve.
These groups will be given powers …
Housing minister Grant Shapps has strengthened measures that give local people the power to circumvent the planning process if they vote in favour of development.
Previously, under the coalition’s Community Right to Build policy, rural communities were to be offered powers to give the green light to developments if they voted …
Local authorities are today looking at contingency plans for schemes after social housing company Connaught went into administration.
The company had fallen into financial difficulties, and yesterday KPMG was appointed as its administrator. Leeds, Norwich and other city councils that have contracts with the FTSE 250 company are now being forced …
London mayor Boris Johnson has published a draft design guide for new homes in the city.
The plan, which is called the London Housing Design Guide, outlines standards that will apply to homes built on land owned by the London Development Agency.
It has been compiled after consultation on an earlier draft …
London mayor Boris Johnson has put forward plans to give the city’s boroughs more control over housing budgets under the government’s localism agenda.
Today, Johnson and Local Councils have published a consultation document A Framework for Devolved Delivery, which would give boroughs greater control over their housing budget. The aim is …
Much debate is raging about social housing in the UK, sparked by announcements of major housing benefit reforms.
Last week, for example, prime minister David Cameron announced plans to replace lifelong council house tenancies with five or ten-year contracts. This marks the most radical reform to social housing since the …
Housing minister Grant Shapps has today told councils that houses they build now will result in direct and non-ringfenced income to spend in future.
Today, Shapps told local authorities that a new incentives scheme called the New Homes Bonus is set to be introduced early in the next spending review period, …
