Housing Today

Housing Today is a fresh media outlet designed to assist housing experts in understanding the fast-evolving housing environment. This shift includes the merging of public and private housing sectors, where housing associations are now constructing homes for sale, while private builders are focusing on rental properties. The private rental market is also changing, with professional build-to-rent developers coming into play, leading to a new comprehensive housing model where developers are involved in the entire process of designing, building, and managing homes.

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Honey gets green-light for 275-home Derbyshire scheme

5 days ago | housingtoday.co.uk | Daniel Gayne

Work expected to start this summerHousebuilder Honey has been given approval to build 275 homes in Derbyshire. Chesterfield Borough Council gave the Sheffield-headquartered builder the green light for development on a 41-acre site in the village of Duckmanton. The scheme, which is called ‘Pearl’ and located on Tom Lane, is valued at £795m and will comprise a mix of two-, three-, four- and five-bedroom homes including terraces, semi-detached and detached properties.
House prices grow marginally in April as transaction volume slumps

5 days ago | housingtoday.co.uk | Matilda Battersby

Prices rose 0.5% since March, as HMRC records 66% decline in transactionsAnnual house prices increased marginally in May to 3.5%, compared to 3.4% in April, according to the latest index from Nationwide. House prices were up 0.5% month on month, with the average UK home now worth £273,427. There was a significant drop in the number of residential property transactions in April, following the spike seen in March as buyers tried to beat the rising price of stamp duty.
Platform’s development spend falls as contractor insolvencies delay three schemes

1 week ago | housingtoday.co.uk | Carl Brown

50,000-home provider improves operating surpluses and marginsPlatform Housing Group has invested less in development in 2024/25 due in part to scheme delays. The 50,000-home housing association, in an unaudited trading update this morning, said it completed 1,028 homes in the year to 31 March. This is down on the 1,202 completed the previous year. The group’s spend on new homes was 8% down year-on-year, in part due to difficulties with schemes due to contractors becoming insolvent.
Drop in valuation of student properties pushes Sanctuary into deficit

1 week ago | housingtoday.co.uk | Carl Brown

Housing association giant continues to explore sale of student properties to free up capitalSanctuary will report a deficit of around £30m in its 2024/25 accounts due mainly to property revaluations and a development write-down. The 126,000-home housing association revealed the impending deficit in a short unaudited trading update yesterday.
Coroner opens inquest into death of baby in Notting Hill Genesis flat

1 week ago | housingtoday.co.uk | Carl Brown

G15 landlord received reports of damp and mould in the property in CamdenA coroner has opened an inquest into the death of a baby boy in a flat managed by Notting Hill Genesis. Akram Mohammed died in February and an inquest at St Pancras Coroner’s Court is looking into the circumstances of his death.
Brent Council fails to meet consumer standards

1 week ago | housingtoday.co.uk | Carl Brown

Regulator criticises London borough’s data accuracy in latest batch of judgementsBrent Council has been handed a low ‘C3’ grading in the latest batch of judgments from the Regulator of Social Housing due to concerns over fire safety and stock data. The judgement for the north London local authority means there are serious failings, and it must make significant improvements.
Government unveils plans to simplify planning and BNG rules for smaller sites

1 week ago | housingtoday.co.uk | Carl Brown

MHCLG also publishes consultation paper on plans to delegate planning approvals to officersThe government has announced plans for simpler planning rules for homes on smaller sites in a bid to boost the SME housebuilding sector. In the latest in a flurry of announcements this week, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) published a new working paper on planning thresholds for small and medium sites.
Unite insists complaints ‘hotline’ complies with data protection rules and won’t risk residents’ safeguarding

1 week ago | housingtoday.co.uk | Carl Brown

Merseyside housing association files formal complaint with Information Commissioner’s OfficeUnite has responded to criticism of its unofficial “complaints hotline” by insisting it is complying with data protection rules and won’t confuse residents or risk their safety. The union has been encouraging residents of Livv Housing Group to contact its phone number to complain about the service they are receiving from the Knowsley-based landlord.
Housebuilders will face ‘delayed homes penalty’ if they fail to build to promised timeframes, Rayner announces

1 week ago | housingtoday.co.uk | Carl Brown

Penalty will be “worth thousands per unbuilt home” and paid directly to local planning authorities. Housebuilders will be required to commit to specific delivery timeframes before they get planning permission and will face financial penalties if they fail to meet them, under government proposals. The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has today announced a range of proposals intended to increase the speed at which sites with planning permission are built out.
Campaign group launches toolkit to combat social housing stigma

2 weeks ago | housingtoday.co.uk | Carl Brown

‘Journey planner’ launched at parliamentary receptionA campaign group has launched a tool designed to help social landlords and other organisations combat the stigma associated with living in social housing. The Stop Social Housing Stigma (SSHS) campaign, which is supported by 163 organisations including large landlords and the Chartered Institute of Housing, has produced a ‘tackling stigma journey planner’.