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An apprentice carpenter who perfected his trade at Walsall Housing Group’s (whg) Skills Centre has won a prestigious award.

Four new apprentices have embarked on a two-year apprenticeship in Fenestration/Window Installation with Anglian Building Products, part of...

An £80 million scheme to build more than 300 new homes on a canal-side site in central London has been announced by the A2Dominion Group.

Northamptonshire Rural Housing Association is working with East Midlands Housing Association to write a new chapter in the history of a...

Staff at Dale & Valley Homes have been raising cash to help earthquake victims in Haiti.

A planning tariff introduced in Milton Keynes has begun to pay dividends for local residents as it raises money to help pay for energy efficiency measures such as cavity wall insulation.

Seddon Property Services has taken the prestigious Learning and Development category in the Midlands Excellence Awards – organised by Investors In Excellence.

New figures show the number of new homes built in England and Wales in 2009/10 will slump to its lowest level since 1923.

Housing Minister John Healey has today backed the country's biggest ever green home building programme, with four areas sharing £60million to build over 600 new homes to the toughest ever environmental standards.

Residents of Redruth will have the chance to present their future vision for the town centre when an ‘information exchange’ opens tomorrow. Running until Saturday 13 February, the consultation exercise will give people the chance to contribute ideas to the development of the Redruth Action Plan Project (RAPP).

The National Housing federation (NHF) has scored a major win in its campaign against “prepayment meter rip off” after British Gas announced it will no longer charge a premium to prepay meter users.

The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), has appointed a new legal panel on a four year contract from 1 April 2010.

A team of Year 9 and 10 students from Walton High in Milton Keynes has reached the national final of the 'Developing Sustainable Communities' competition.

One of the capital’s most high-profile regeneration projects continues to weather the recession, with nearly £27million of Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) funding agreed.

An affordable housing development in Bury St Edmunds that was named in honour of the Queen’s visit to distribute Maundy Money was officially unveiled by local dignitaries.

Just as the organisation has spent the last four years transforming the homes of its customers, so Halton Housing Trust has worked hard on changing its own culture. The result is an organisation that is working with its customers to take its services to the next level

Meet Longhurst and Havelok Homes, or L&H Homes as it prefers to be known. If it sounds familiar then it is hardly surprising, but it is a new housing association building on the strengths of its amalgamated parents.

Serious questions have been raised over Decent Homes funding for ALMOs yet to achieve two star status from the Audit Commission. Sutton Housing Partnership (SHP) is one such organisation but far from retreating into the shadows it is fighting for its rightful inheritance

There is no getting away from the fact that we as a nation are getting fatter. The issue of obesity is never out of the media and Government initiatives are constantly being launched to help us get fi tter. But how does the housing sector squeeze into all of this? Michelle McKenna investigates

 

Events

Thu, 03/11/2010 - Palace Hotel, Manchester

The annual Women in Construction awards celebrate the achievements of women and companies actively working to include women in a traditionally male dominated industry.