Decarbonisation of existing housing stock: Derek Horrocks from Sustainable Building Services
DEPUTY prime minister and housing minister Angela Rayner has announced a further £350 million pledged toward Labour’s momentous 1.5 million home target. However, while building new homes is essential to addressing the planning […]
New Rural Housing Research Project Launched To Help Tackle Housing Crisis
On a mission to help tackle the rural housing crisis, Leading affordable house provider, Stonewater, has started funding a new research project to support social housing. Led by Longleigh Foundation, and partnered with […]
How Scotland’s Young People Could Solve the Housing Crisis
As Scotland marks Scottish Apprenticeship Week, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) and the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) are urging young people to pursue a career in housing. Against the backdrop […]
Liverpool is Enhancing Green Skills to Tackle the Housing Crisis
Liverpool city region residents will train as energy assessors to support a programme to retrofit energy efficiency measures to homes. Housing Industry Leaders spoke to Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) about how […]
Empty Homes to be Transformed into Housing for Essential Workers
A new partnership has been launched that will see empty homes in Argyll and Bute being brought back into use to help to tackle the shortage of affordable housing for health and social […]
How is Scotland Providing Affordable Housing for Key Workers?
Up to £25 million is being made available to help councils to identify affordable homes for key workers in rural communities across Scotland. Housing Industry Leaders looks at why this is crucial to […]
Garage Block to be Converted into Energy Efficient Housing
Work is underway on a Winchester City Council scheme to convert a former garage block into six affordable and energy-efficient new homes. Housing Industry Leaders explores how councils can use retrofitting to provide […]
Housing Supply Could Drop by up to 122,000 Homes Annually
A new report by the Housing Builders Federation (HBF) ‘Planning for Economic Failure’ has warned that the housing supply could halve and fall to the lowest level since World War Two. Housing Industry […]
Unravelling the Reasons Behind the 4.3 Million Home Deficit
According to the non-partisan Think Tank Centre for Cities, inefficient and outdated planning laws are at the heart of the sector falling behind its housebuilding targets, with a 4.3 million housing deficit being […]