All Housing Today articles in February 2025 – Page 3
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Housing Boardroom: DataSustainability & Safety Tracker Report: Targets and Tensions
Q4 2024: Housing Today Boardroom’s second Sustainability & Safety Tracker finds a sector advancing on energy standards, but with EPC targets still outpacing carbon tracking
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NewsSocial housing finance specialist Darren Watmough announces retirement after 36-year career
Watmough to stand down from role at Alpha Living in the summer
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Housing Boardroom: DataComment: Rising to the challenge
Despite challenging economic headwinds, housing associations are perfectly placed to ensures stakeholders pull together on affordable housing, argues Aster’s Amanda Williams.
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NewsFewer than one in four high-rise projects at final ‘gateway 3’ stage have received a decision
Just seven out of 40 projects have so far been approved
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NewsNotting Hill Genesis recruits Livv chief executive to its board as it aims to regain compliance
Léann Hearne, who is also vice-chair of Yorkshire Housing, has joined G15 landlord to monitor its improvement plan
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NewsYorkshire Housing appoints new executive finance director
Rob Parkes promoted at 20,000-home housing association
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Housing Boardroom: DataComment: Homes truths
Government’s bold 1.5m home target won’t become a reality without some equally bold long-term reforms, advises Stonewater’s Jonathan Layzell
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Housing Boardroom: DataComment: Preparing for change together
Cross-sector alignment will be essential to navigating upcoming building safety framework reforms, says the CIH’s policy expert Eve Blezard
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In FocusIt’s deja vu all over again: Can the Ox-Cam Arc work second time around?
The chancellor has given her backing to an expansion plan for the corridor connecting Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge, including thousands of homes, which the previous government dropped. Joey Gardiner asks what hope the industry can have
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NewsHull City Council appoints ECF as development partner on 850-home regeneration scheme
City centre project is backed by £10m of government funding
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NewsGateshead Council to invest £260m into housing over next five years
More than 400 new council homes and upgrades to existing stock in the pipeline
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NewsRival backs McCarthy Stone retirement scheme after NHS criticism
Hampshire and Isle of Wight’s integrated care board said proposed 52-home facility would “put too much strain” on local health services
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CommentBalancing quality and quantity to deliver 1.5m homes
The government – and housebuilders – must be given the best possible chance of achieving its ambitious target writes Ben Derbyshire
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NewsOne Housing review unearths more than 800 inaccurate records on asbestos risk
Ombudsman ordered review after tenant’s ceiling collapsed, prompting concerns about asbestos exposure
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NewsWider roll out of CPO reforms could slow housing development, warns HBF
Housebuilders’ body warns a ‘general direction’ to remove ‘hope value’ for whole categories of sites to speed up development would have the opposite effect
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NewsDandara gets green light for 300-home shopping centre redevelopment
Chilterns Shopping Centre heads for demolition to make way for two new residential buildings
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NewsPlans in for 580 homes at former Shredded Wheat factory site in Hertfordshire
Malaysian developer IJM bought site after previous joint venture’s scheme fell through
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CommentThe £300m AHP top-up is welcome, but without a longer-term solution it’s just a sticking plaster
Social landlords in the north of England are ready to deliver but they need the right resources, argues Tracy Harrison
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NewsHow will the £300m AHP top-up work? The key questions answered
Housing secretary and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner announced a surprise funding top-up last week. Here is an at-a-glance guide to how it will work.
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NewsPeabody and Hill strike £116m deal with BTR operator as part of 3,500-home Dagenham scheme
Goodstone Living will own and operate 360 homes on former Ford stamping plant site