The Government is failing badly when it comes to fixing the country’s broken housing market, leading housing bodies have warned, as a new report demonstrates a serious shortfall in the delivery of new homes.
Two landlords have been left with a court bill totalling £22,608 after allowing a flat to fall into such a state of disrepair that it was branded by a judge as “Dickensian” living conditions.
Leeds-based legal firm Walker Morris has beaten off the competition to become the sole provider appointed to the EN Procure Legal Services Framework Agreement.
Denne, part of the Leadbitter Group, is celebrating the completion of the £9.1 million redevelopment of the landmark Miramar site in Herne Bay into a state-of-the-art assisted-living scheme.
The Building Societies Association (BSA) has launched its new Housing Hub to help create greater cooperation between housing associations and lenders to help potential buyers overcome the deposit hurdle and to bring alternative home ownership models into the mainstream.
Details of how thousands of new affordable homes will be built using the cash proceeds from the Government's reinvigorated Right to Buy scheme have been unveiled by Housing Minister Grant Shapps.
There was a time when a good chunk of the Red Rose county was treated as part of neighbouring Yorkshire. Those Normans, eh, but when the Conqueror’s auditors went out to compile the Domesday Book in 1086, Lancashire as we understand it didn’t exist
As the country’s largest council landlord, the city of Birmingham was forced to operate in some very restricted circumstances but it proved it could deliver the goods all the same. Now, with new localism powers, and on the verge of a long-awaited self-financing deal, Birmingham is eager to show what a liberated city can do. Mark Cantrell reports.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging the construction industry to learn from the companies that built the Olympic Park after they were found to have driven down the rate of accidents – but the fundamentals hold lessons far beyond the building site. Mark Cantrell reports
The brightest and the best female achievers in the house building and wider construction industries were honoured at the sixth annual Women in Construction Awards
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PfH Live is the biggest procurement event ever held for the social housing sector – essential for anyone involved in driving efficiency, from housing chief executives and finance directors to building suppliers and tenants.