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Allison Homes recruits Places for People executive as group MD
Housebuilder Allison Homes has hired a former Places for People executive as its new group managing director. Jon Cook, has left his role as chief executive of the housing association’s commercial subsidary Places for People Developments,to take up the position at the £146m-turnover housebuilder.
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Credit rating agency revises Places for People’s outlook from stable to negative
S&P has downgraded PfP’s outlook due to increased costs associated with investments in existing homes
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Places for People appoints new managing director for developments
Andrew Usher has been promoted from development director to managing director for developments
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Places for People launches new training programme to tackle sector skills shortages
PfP Thrive will deliver training programmes for the UK housing and construction sector
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Housing delivery 31% up at Places for People
Repair and maintenance spend exceeded planned budget
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‘We won’t be party to division’ - Why Places for People is leaving X
The housing association is among several organisations to announce it will no longer have a presence on the social media platform. Greg Reed explains why, and how it will ensure resident engagement won’t suffer as a result
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Public believes more upfront investment in infrastructure needed to support social housebuilding, survey finds
Places for People’s pre-election survey found that more than 50% of people worry about the strain that housebuilding would put on existing infrastructure
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Places for People and Clarion use shared ownership staircasing automation technology
Clarion completed a two-month pilot with Stairpay, which Stairpay say saw a 50% increase in staircasing transactions
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Places for People joins call for next government to build 90,000 social homes a year
A recent PfP survey found over three-quarters of people believe more social rented homes are needed to tackle homelessness
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Non-compliant Origin becomes a subsidary of Places for People
7,800-home housing association completes merger after regulatory downgrade
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Places for People hires permanent chief risk officer
Judy Hardy was appointed to the role on an interim basis in September last year
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Places for People’s 234-home canalside development in Birmingham approved
The scheme will be built in Ladywood, close to the Birmingham main line canal
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How tenure-blind design can help chip away at social housing stigma
‘Poor doors’ can reinforce segregation based on economic status, but there are often good reasons why affordable housing is kept separate from market sale homes. This circle can be squared, writes James Zamchick
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Places for People’s takeover of small rural housing association approved
Proposed merger between South Devon Rural Housing Association and Places for People approved
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Places for People’s takeover of Origin gets go-ahead
Origin is set to be taken over by PfP in its centenary year
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Three social housing landlords found in breach of regulatory standards
Origin found to be non-compliant with economic standards, while Woking and Wigan have breached consumer standards
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Places for People buys 80-home site from developer Wain Homes
230,000-home housing association has bought an 80-home site in Lancashire, as part of its land-led development drive
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Places for People announces potential merger with troubled Origin Housing
Under proposed merger plans, Origin Housing would become a subsidiary of the 230,000-home group
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In Focus
Direct delivery: Places for People’s Adrian Bohr talks strategic land and building 5,000 homes a year
Places for People plans to ramp up development with the help of its newly-formed strategic land division. PfP executive Adrian Bohr tells Olivia Barber how he sees it working