Housing association turnover exceeds £10 billion
The Tenant Services Authority has announced that the housing association sector turnover was more than £10 billion for the first time in 2008. Turnover was up by 10.7 per cent…
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Sale of Bovis stock to housing associations
Bovis Homes has been forced to sell hundreds of unwanted homes to the government, through the government’s National Clearing House, in a deal worth £18 million. The clearing house scheme…
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CPRE sets out its vision of the country in 2026
The planning system must not become a âtool for promoting economic developmentâ, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) said, setting out its vision for the future of the English…
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House building target in disarray
House building rates have almost halved during the past year, pushing them to their lowest level for three decades according to government figures. Only 22,000 homes were started in England…
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Thames Gateway on track
The £9.6 billion regeneration project in the Thames Gateway will not be weakened by the economic crisis, Margaret Beckett said. Building targets for the area include 160,000 new homes by…
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Orders for homes slump at end of 2008
Demand for orders of public and housing association homes slumped 20 per cent in the last three months of 2008 according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. Overall…
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Drip feeding the housing market
House builders are drip feeding homes on to the market so they don’t flood the market and cause further price falls industry experts warned yesterday. The practice is ‘widespread’ among…
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‘Shockingâ homeless figures
Construction workers union Ucatt has urged the government to invest more money in housing after new figures show that almost 63,000 families in England are homeless. The union said it…
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Demand for increase in land supply
There will need to be a 67 per cent increase in the amount of land available for new housing if the government is to meet its housing target, according to…
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HCA ‘ready to deliver’ house building
The Homes and Communities Agency says it is ready to begin delivering the significantly enlarged programme of public house building when it takes responsibility of the additional £1.5 billion promised…