Sajid Javid promises conference a £3 billion Home Builders Fund
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Posted 28.10.16
Peabody: Article link
The London Borough of Bexley has granted planning permission to Peabody for new homes on four sites, marks the first substantial development in Thamesmead since 2014 and represents one of the largest residential developments to be given the go-ahead in London this year.
The first phase of these new developments will be Southmere Village, which will include 525 new homes, around 230 of which will be affordable.
The future phases will deliver around 1,000 new homes at Binsey Walk, Coralline Walk and Sedgemere Road.
The development will be built in four phases, with Southmere Village due to start in 2017 and the final phase anticipated to be completed in 2024.
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Posted 26.10.16
Housing Europe: Article link
Housing Europe concluded its 'Housing for All' campaign and brought evidence-based proposals to the Habitat III table in Quito that make the case for affordable housing in the centre of the New Urban Agenda.
The new housing related policies should be based on Flexibility, Investment and Cooperation. A global commitment drawn on these three axes may ensure that social housing providers are future proofed within a challenging context, so that can keep delivering more and better homes for all at a faster pace.
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Posted 25.10.16
Birmingham City Council: Article link
Birmingham City Council's Cabinet has approved two reports which set out plans to build more than 500 new houses and apartments for sale and rent at a cost of £64 million.
Cabinet supported a major new house building programme through the Council's Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust (BMHT) for the redevelopment of the Bromford estate. This will see 225 new homes - 168 for affordable rent and 57 for sale - at a cost of £28 million.
Alongside the BMHT house building programme, Cabinet approved the development of a further 300 apartments and houses for market rent through the Council's wholly owned company INReach at a cost of £36 million.
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Posted 21.10.16
Welsh Government: Article link
Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant said the strong Welsh budget for housing would help the Welsh Government meet their target to deliver an extra 20,000 affordable homes over the lifetime of this government.
Addressing a Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) conference in Cardiff Carl Sargeant said the £1.3 billion allocated over the term of this government in support of housing priorities would help him deliver a more ambitious housing agenda over the next five years.
The Communities Secretary also welcomed the latest statistics which confirmed that the Welsh Government exceeded its target of 10,000 additional affordable homes in the last Assembly.
Carl Sargeant added that work is already underway to abolish the Right to Buy and the Right to Acquire.
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Posted 20.10.16
Your Housing Group: Article link
Your Housing Group (YHG) has announced plans to build a 30-storey apartment building on Liverpool's iconic waterfront.
The proposed £48 million development at Princes Dock, Liverpool Waters would be YHG's third build to rent development, although the first in Liverpool, and would be marketed under the organisation's successful PRS brand, Hive.
YHG expects to submit a planning application for the development in early 2017 and begin work later in the year, subject to consent.
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Posted 10.10.16
g15: Report link
The g15 is a group of London's largest housing associations working across all of the Capital's boroughs and beyond. It believes that continuing to provide homes for a diverse population on a range of incomes is vital to London's ongoing prosperity and growth.
The g15's manifesto sets out the ambition to deliver 72,000 homes for London over the next five years and another 80,000 over the following five.
There is the potential for at least one-sixth of these to be on existing estates.
The replacement of existing ageing stock with new homes is not the limit of the g15 ambition. It regards it as the means to a bigger end - the revitalisation of communities.
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Posted 07.10.16
Glasgow City Council: Article link
Glasgow City Council's Executive Committee has approved the latest round of housing projects in Glasgow to be supported by the Council's Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP).
The Council has a budget of £67.28 million for the AHSP and this will support the delivery of 1076 affordable homes across the City.
While most of the AHSP budget will go towards the development of new and affordable homes, £2.5 million has been set aside to carry out medical adaptations - such as the construction of ramps, widening of doors, etc - required for the tenants of homes managed by Registered Social Landlords.
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Posted 07.10.16
Chartered Institute of Building: Article link
The UK's first mass-produced home factory is expected to fire up production soon, as a financial services firm forges ahead with its plan to reshape the country's failing housing sector..
UK magazine Building reports that ready-to-assemble sections of the cross-laminated timber homes will be delivered like flat-packed furniture, and prototypes are expected "within weeks".
A source told Building that the prototypes, produced by insurance and investment group Legal & General, would be for a three-bedroom and a five-bedroom home.
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Posted 04.10.16
Housing Monthly Diary: Article link
In his speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, said "today we are opening a massive £3 billion Home Builders Fund. This major package will help us build more than 225,000 new homes".
He also said "we will pilot a new initiative: Accelerated Construction on public land. These measures will allow us to get started on 15,000 homes by 2020."
Further, he said "we will bring forward a package of measures to encourage urban regeneration and to build on brownfield land."
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Posted 01.10.16
National Housing Federation: Article link
As part of Rural Housing Week, Chloe McLaren Webb visited Southwestern Housing Society to see first-hand how housing associations are making a real difference in the face of a multi-faceted rural housing crisis.
Chloe McLaren Webb is a Policy Officer at the National Housing Federation.