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The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) today set out its new standards for social housing landlords, designed to protect tenants and improve the service they receive. RSH also confirmed how it will regulate and inspect landlords against these final set of…
Bad news for UK trees this week – though, having said, I don’t imagine there are many good-news-for-trees weeks. Climate change experts are exasperated about cuts to tree-planting schemes in Scotland, with the woodland creation budget reduced by 41% in…
Housing association Clarion Futures, the charitable foundation of Clarion Housing Group, has partnered with the Rothesay Foundation, the charitable foundation of UK pensions insurer Rothesay, to expand its warm spaces programme. The Rothesay Foundation has donated over £315,000 to the…
A social landlord has been nationally recognised for its success in promoting inclusivity and diversity across the business. Stonewater was this week recognised as one of the country’s Top 25 organisations which achieved Maturity Matrix accreditation in 2023. The matrix,…
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has slammed a “complex and unpredictable planning system”, which it says is behind the country’s persistent under delivery of new homes. In its final report on the housebuilding market in Great Britain, the CMA…
By Davina Emery, Tenancy Sustainment Team Leader, Winchester City Council Long gone are the days when local authorities visited properties, with regard to hoarding behaviours, in white biohazard suits with the intention of removing people’s possessions, often without permission. But…
Grenfell United and the Fire Brigades Union have renewed their calls for ‘action and justice’ in the wake of a major fire in a block of flats in the Spanish city of Valencia. The fire, which was first reported on…
The Housing Ombudsman has made six findings of severe maladministration for Birmingham City Council for how it handled leaks and damp and mould, as well as the associated complaint handling. Last year the ombudsman published a Special Investigation Report into…
By Mushtaq Khan, Chief Executive, Housing Diversity Network In recent weeks people have been asking us here at Housing Diversity Network to comment on or ‘call out’ individuals or organisations when something goes wrong or poor services are highlighted and…
Everybody’s favourite global misinformation shambles, Facebook, is facing yet more legal action, with the latest litigation potentially costing the network’s owner, Meta, £3bn. A London judge has given the greenlight for a case, brought by one Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen…
The government says local residents will be protected from being pushed out of their communities by excessive short-term due to changes made to planning rules. Under the reforms, councils will be given greater power to control short-term lets by making…
The Housing Ombudsman has released a special investigation report into a London borough, finding that failures throughout a number of cases left residents “feeling anything but secure in their homes” and causing wellbeing and financial consequences for those residents. In…
