House

More empty homes officers in Scotland will be enlisted thanks to a £2 million investment through the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership in 2025-26, which will see staff take a more proactive and targeted approach in tackling local housing issues.

Home concept

Homes England has partnered with Greencore Homes, a sustainable housebuilder, to inject £8 million of funding to support the delivery of its 42-home scheme, Milton Heights, in Oxfordshire.

Housing and community concept

The government has set a target of building 300,000 new social and affordable homes through the Social and Affordable Homes Programme, backed by £39 million announced in the recent Spending Review.

House under construction

The Planning Inspectorate is nationally rolling out their digital appeals service, which has been handling householder appeals (fast-track cases) and section 78 (full planning) appeals online in a pilot involving five London boroughs.

Construction workers installing solar panels

The UK has announced a roadmap to accelerate the rollout of solar panels on houses across the country, which could save families around £500 each year on their energy bills.

Model house being constructed

The government have announced their intention to reform the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) to speed up newbuild applications being renewed, in a bid to boost development.

Homes England has published statistics on housebuilding including housing starts on site and completions delivered by Homes England between 1 April

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has published the findings from its latest quarterly survey on the fire safety of 11 metre plus buildings in

Department for communities and local government

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has appointed two new non-executive directors (NEDs) to the Board of the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH).

New changes will come into force next month which will end the local connection rules for young care leavers and victims of domestic abuse to acces

The government has announced £16 billion of public investment to help build 500,000 new homes.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled her spending review, promising £39 billion for social and affordable housing, an extension to free scho

The government has announced it will repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824 by Spring next year, meaning rough sleeping is no longer a criminal offence.

The government has announced that everyone over the State Pension age in England and Wales with an income of, or below, £35,000 a year will b

A new AI tool which can scan hundreds of files in seconds is being rolled out to speed up planning permissions.

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