Over the weekend, the Built Environment Committee published its report on how the government can make a success of its new towns plan. Lord Gascoigne, the committee’s chair, sets out the key takeaways| Inside Housing
Financial statements for 2024-25 have been released over recent months. Eliza Parr looks at numbers from some of the largest landlords| Finance and Development
Gentoo has seen its annual surplus fall by 15% after booking a £6m impairment charge related to three large-panel system blocks set for demolition| Finance and Development
Birmingham City Council’s Planning Committee has given the green light for the regeneration of Druids Heath| Finance and Development
Plans have been submitted to build a 54-storey residential tower with more than 800 homes in Canary Wharf, east London| Finance and Development
Water and flooding minister Emma Hardy has announced changes that aim to reduce the waiting time for an environmental permit| Finance and Development
The House of Lords Built Environment Committee (BEC) has warned that new towns will fail without strong government leadership, and that funding is one of the “most critical issues” facing the programme| Finance and Development
The housing sector has broadly welcomed London’s ‘emergency’ housebuilding package, which includes lowering the affordable housing requirement for schemes to 20%.| Inside Housing
Scottish ministers have approved 799 homes in Edinburgh, subject to a series of noise concerns being addressed| Finance and Development
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Shared ownership homes will work with commonhold, the government has said as it set out the “beginning of the end for the feudal leasehold system”.| Inside Housing
Asset manager Legal & General (L&G) has sold its equity stake in £500m later living joint venture Inspired Villages to NatWest Pension Trustee Limited.| Inside Housing
Developer Moda and asset manager Aermont Capital have bought a brownfield site in West London to build a student housing scheme worth £300m| Finance and Development
The UK Supreme Court has sided with a house builder over a planning decision related to nutrient neutrality rules, which could green light thousands of new homes.| Inside Housing
Public bodies can eliminate costly delays, unlock sites and bridge viability gaps to deliver new homes, writes James Meakin of Knight Frank| Inside Housing
A London council’s plan for a house-buying joint venture with Mears to help tackle homelessness has been put on ice for a second time due to high gilt rates| Finance and Development
Birmingham City Council and Berkeley St Joseph have unveiled a £2.5bn investment partnership that comes with a commitment to delivering up to 12,000 new homes| Finance and Development
Shaun Holdcroft, Legal & General’s new head of affordable housing, speaks to Kate Callaghan about the firm’s diverse acquisition strategy and the values it looks for in potential investors| Finance and Development
The latest news on Section 106 has me reflecting on the dark arts of viability assessments, writes Jules Birch.| Inside Housing
The latest news, analysis, insight, expert comment, video and CPD learning from the UK social housing sector, provided by award-winning journalists.| Inside Housing
John Perry, policy advisor at the Chartered Institute of Housing, looks at the historical precedent for increasing affordable housebuilding grants| Inside Housing
Places for People has reported a 32% increase in annual affordable completions, alongside a more than £290m increase in its pre-tax surplus.| Inside Housing
Awaab’s Law will be extended to temporary accommodation, the homelessness minister has announced.| Inside Housing
Although temporary accommodation now costs the taxpayer more than £2bn a year, spending on this type of housing remains largely unexamined. Inside Housing and the i newspaper joined forces to find out how the money is being used. Stephen Delahunty, Peter Apps and Vicky Spratt report on the findings| Inside Housing
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party will move towards a pro-social housing agenda because so many social renters are considering voting for them, Sir Keir Starmer’s former economic advisor has said.| Inside Housing
Just 42% of social housing tenants in Wales consider their rent to be affordable, according to the latest annual survey by TPAS Cymru.| Inside Housing
Inside Housing’s latest quarterly update to its live data dashboard reveals the numbers of households with children aged under five living in temporary accommodation and B&Bs| Inside Housing
