Propertymark has stepped forward with recommendations urging the UK Government to diversify its approach to increasing the nation’s housing supply, particularly for potential homeowners. Amid…
The Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have today revealed their progressive strategy for housing across England. The…
Councils across England have been invited to bid for a share of a £60m Brownfield Land Release scheme that, said the Government, will deliver 5,800…
2012 is set to have the busiest year for house sales since 2007, property portal Zoopla has predicted. ‘Easing of lockdowns will continue to cause…
With the recent re-shuffle bringing Christopher Pincher as the latest in a long line of Housing Ministers, I really do hope the Prime Minister is…
We’ve had a ‘new Government’ for 6 or 7 weeks and not sure what has changed. We officially leave the EU on 31st January, but…
The new year is here, December has come and gone, but my fingers have remained still on the keyboard. We have had a general election…
Excitement does not describe what I am feeling about the December election at this time, more cynicism and a sense of Déjà vu. We have…
LHA (Local Housing Allowance) determines how much a person on benefits can receive towards housing and depends on the area in which they live. So…
Both being ‘townies’ born and bred, it was a source of great delight to find that we had squirrels in the trees at the end…
Chancellor Sajid Javid’s spending round, outlining departmental budgets for 2020/21, have proved a disappointment to housing professionals, local authorities and those in need of housing,…
It is 25 years since I graduated as a housing professional. I had spent a year in a local authority housing office and seen how…
I have resisted the temptation for a few weeks not to mention, yet again, news of the horrors from Universal Credit. I thought Amber Rudd,…
I have written before about the regular replacement there seems to have been over the last few years in the posts of Housing Secretary and…
It seems that the first new housing legislation of the year will soon be upon us, with the implementation of the Homes (Fitness for Human…
