affordable housing

Illustration of development / Dacorum Borough Council

Council acquires land from Homes England

09.07.2020

Laura Edgar

affordable housing | Dacorum Borough Council | homes england | Housing | South East

Dacorum Borough Council has acquired land from Homes England for affordable housing close to the centre of Hemel Hempstead.

Government extends affordable homes scheme

09.07.2020

Laura Edgar

affordable housing | Coronavirus | England | Housing | robert jenrick

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has announced that the Affordable Homes Programme will be extended until March 2023.

Called in: Jenrick approves divisive Notting Hill regeneration project

26.06.2020

Matt Moody

The housing secretary has taken his inspector’s advice to approve a regeneration scheme in West London after negotiations with the Mayor of London led the developer to double the scheme’s affordable housing...

Scotland’s speculative development model is ‘not delivering the homes needed'

17.06.2020

Laura Edgar

affordable housing | land banking | Policy & Politics | Scotland | scottish land commission

The Scottish Land Commission has argued that the country’s reliance on the speculative private development model to deliver homes will not achieve the level required to meet demand.

Tech landscape: How a simple app is improving affordable housing provision in Southwark

15.06.2020

Simon Wicks

An app to monitor affordable housing throughout its lifetime has won the 2020 RTPI Award for Excellence in Tech within Planning Practice. Simon Wicks finds out how it works and how openness...

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Appeal: Conversion of pub’s living quarters incurs off-site levy

12.06.2020

Matt Moody

A plan to convert a pub’s living quarters into a self-contained flat that would have zero build costs but would increase the property's value by £18,000 should incur an affordable housing contribution, an...

News in brief: Funding bids for Whitehaven and Wolverhampton submitted; Government urged to commit to HS2 East

09.06.2020

Laura Edgar

A round-up of planning news: Tuesday 9 June, 2020

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Uptick in Scotland’s affordable homes target will help Covid-19 recovery

09.06.2020

Laura Edgar

The next Scottish Government should pledge to deliver 53,000 affordable homes over the next Parliament to reduce housing need, tackle child poverty and ‘kick-start’ the country’s economic recovery from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

Appeal: Inspector sides with council over ‘acoustic prison’ homes

05.06.2020

Matt Moody

Plans for 41 affordable homes in Bridgend, South Wales, have been blocked by an inspector, who agreed that sealing all of their windows to mitigate noise from a nearby industrial estate would be ‘oppressive...

Appeal: Greenfield housing allowed despite 456 objections

15.05.2020

Matt Moody

An inspector has approved plans for 48 affordable homes on undeveloped green space in Horwich, near Bolton, despite hundreds of objections from local people.

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