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Last year, London Borough of Haringey made national newspaper headlines after scrapping controversial proposals to regenerate a major housing estate through a joint venture with developer LendLease. However, since then,[…]
Local authorities say the decision to lift the cap on the Housing Revenue Account isn’t enough for them to deliver on the scale needed to end the housing crisis. According[…]
Manchester City Council is lending £25m to a development joint venture in which it is a partner, to protect a major regeneration plan. The city has decided to co-fund a[…]
Housing will this year displace highways and transport as the largest area of council capital spending – following the lifting of the housing revenue account borrowing cap. The government this[…]
Croydon Council this week agreed to sell another 61 development sites to its wholly-owned housing company – Room151 explores the sums.
A London council was this week set to approve the creation of a joint venture to develop three major sites in the borough. London Borough of Harrow’s cabinet, due to[…]
A Merseyside council is in discussions with a developer to buy a town centre, in a move designed to kick-start redevelopment. Knowsley Council this week announced that it has begun[…]
Hackney Council has earmarked £150,000 as start-up costs for a council-run energy company to tackle the fuel poverty of almost 10,000 households in the borough. The council’s cabinet this week[…]
Reforms to the fees charged to house builders are being held up by the delayed spending review. MPs on the Public Accounts committee were told that changes aimed at enabling[…]
Brentwood council is set to sign a joint venture with Morgan Sindall Investments worth £1bn in contracts for development in the borough. Though this is the fourth local asset backed[…]
