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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…
By Alistair McIntosh, chief executive, HQN So now we know. Today the RSH has released from captivity its data on how housing associations spend their cash. You can see who did what during 2022/23 in this report from the RSH….
Housing associations used their operating surpluses to invest £12.5 billion in new and existing homes in the last financial year, it has been revealed. The Regulator of Social Housing has today published its value for money metrics and reporting for…
The collective of local government in London has hit back at the government’s plans to push for developing new housing on brownfield land. According to London Councils, the capital’s boroughs are already mostly developing on brownfield sites, with the majority…
The country is facing a rental crisis, a landlords group has warned, as analysis reveals a surge in demand for private rented sector (PRS) properties. According to research commissioned by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA), in the final quarter…
Listening properly, so we can deliver the right outcomes for customers, is the best way of improving satisfaction scores, regardless of what measure you use, says Kate Krokou, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at the Hyde Group. As the sector…
The government says 20,000 new affordable homes will be built across the country, thanks to a £3 billion increase to the Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme. The expansion of the scheme, which provides low-cost loans to housing providers, will see it…
Housing secretary Michael Gove has ordered England’s local authorities to build new homes on brownfield land, under a major “shake-up to planning rules”. The government has announced that every council will be told that they will need to prioritise brownfield…
The 6 April 2024 sees the end of the transitional period for building control applications and the introduction of a new regime which has far reaching implications for those who commission, design and construction all buildings in England where Building…
The Housing Ombudsman and the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) have today launched their aligned Complaint Handling Codes which they hope will result in best practice in complaint handling and ultimately better services for residents. Following the Social…
