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In FocusKey takeaways from the Building the Future Conference and Housing Today Live
Church House in Westminster yesterday was the venue for two back-to-back conferences on construction and housing attended by hundreds of professionals from the built environment. Here is a round-up of the key talking points from the event, run by Building and Housing Today.
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NewsSouthern’s freeze on new development will last until financial circumstances improve, says CEO
Paul Hackett tells Housing Today Live conference this is the “toughest time” for housing association finances he can remember
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NewsCIH Scotland highlights ‘significant’ shortfall of student bed spaces in cross-party report
Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee are facing shortages of thousands of bed spaces
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NewsClarion sells 700 properties to Eastlight Community Homes
125,000-home provider has sold nearly 3,000 homes to other providers since April 2022
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NewsSpringfield reports sharp drop in completions and profit
Scottish housebuilder cites subdued homebuyer demand and reduced affordable housing activity as profit plummets 37%
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NewsGuinness undershoots development target by nearly half
Landlord says resource pressures and contractor administrations hit annual development figures
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NewsConsider allowing developers to pay for faster planning decisions, says Tony Blair Institute report
Report also calls for replacement of section 106 mechanism
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NewsNHF-backed alliance appoints 22 construction firms to £800m framework
Building Better and Procurement for Housing’s four-year framework aims to boost the use of MMC in social housing
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News‘We need subsidy’ Liverpool HA boss tells Community Housing Summit as homelessness costs soar
Liverpool housing leaders discuss challenges in meeting housing need at joint NHF and CIH event in the city
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NewsWelsh government only halfway to its 20,000 low-carbon social homes target, watchdog finds
The government may need as much as £580 to £740m extra to deliver the homes by March 2026
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NewsFlagship boosts surplus by 16% despite fall in open market sales and higher salaries
East of England provider built 744 homes in the 2023/24
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NewsHousing bodies cautiously welcome Scottish goverment’s housing focus in 2024/25 programme
However, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations has warned that the government also needs to tackle funding delays and remove obstacles for mid-market rent homes
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NewsAster’s surplus hit by higher interest costs and writedowns
The housing association’s pre-tax profit falls 14% due to a combination of an increase in costs caused by inflation and an ‘all-time high’ investment in its homes
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NewsRayner holds meeting with council leaders to discuss Right to Buy changes
The deputy PM is expected to launch a consultation on scrapping the scheme for new-build homes and reducing discounts for sales of existing stock
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NewsThe government officially scraps Conservatives’ proposed ‘British Homes for British Workers’ policy
MHCLG in an official consultation response says there are already stringent rules in place to determine social housing allocation
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NewsReport backed by major developers calls for government to help SME housebuilders
Pocket Living has urged the government to to create Homes England ‘SME managers’ as part of 10-point plan to help ‘save’ smaller housebuilder sector
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NewsMore than 1,100 objections lodged against 800-home development on green belt land
Plans for a green belt development have received strong opposition due to residents’ concerns it would remove “productive farmland”
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NewsMoody’s reconfirms Southern Housing’s A3 stable credit rating
The credit ratings agency said Southern has a very strong balance sheet and liquidity but its interest cover remains weak
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NewsNational housing targets must be prioritised over local objections, says think tank
The Institute for Government has said the government must not compromise on national housing targets regardless of the outcome of the updated National Planning Policy Framework consultation