Uk & International

A council-commissioned housing development in Coulsdon, South London, has been awarded the UK's most prestigious architecture award, with St Andrew’s Drive in Glasgow missing out on a housing prize. Designed by Mary Duggan Architects with RUFFArchitects, Lion Green Road won this year's Stirlin

The UK government is increasingly unlikely to meet its ambition of delivering 1.5 million new homes in England by July 2029, according to the latest UK Housing Review Autumn Briefing Paper. Published today, the findings suggest that around one million homes could be delivered by the target date

A new report from the Prosper UK Housing Commission has called for rent controls to be ruled out in law in England, citing Scotland’s recent experience as evidence that they do not make rents more affordable.

Orbit has completed the transfer of 2,227 homes to Raven Housing Trust in the South East of England. The transfer comprises a range of tenures including general needs, leasehold, shared ownership and supported living, across nine local authorities. The majority of homes transferred on completion, wi

The UK Government is to consider how to extend Awaab’s Law to private renters and other types of accommodation throughout England.

The homelessness charity Crisis has hit out at proposals from Policy Exchange to overhaul England's social housing system, warning that the recommendations amount to "divisive rhetoric" that will worsen the country's housing crisis rather than solve it.

Local authorities in England have spent a record £2.9 billion over the past year on providing temporary accommodation to households experiencing homelessness.

The Conservative Party's plans to cut Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to help meet defence spending commitments risk pushing more households into hardship and homelessness, the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has warned. The party has said it would make defence spending hit 3% of GDP by 2029/30 t

The Scottish housing market is seeing a rising gap between the level of need and the speed of new housing delivery, with more certainty for planning, funding, technical compliance and risk management required to ramp up home delivery, a white paper from Show House, in collaboration with J3 Advisory

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has stepped in over concerns that some suppliers cancelled orders amid the surge in heating oil prices, which may have been a contract breach. 

The UK government has announced the first allocations from its £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP), with almost £9.6 billion awarded to strategic partners to support the delivery of more than 73,000 social and affordable homes across England over the next decade.&nbs

Small and medium-sized housebuilders across England have urged the UK government to pause the introduction of its Building Safety Levy, which they claim will make even more sites financially unviable.

Thousands more homes are to be built within ten minutes of transport hubs, including on green belt sites, under a major loosening of planning policy in England from today.

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has pushed back against Conservative proposals to strip foreign nationals of access to social housing in England, arguing that the policy sidesteps a long-running shortage of genuinely affordable homes. Responding to the plans, CIH pointed out that access to

Nationwide has reported in its latest house price index that house prices were up by just 0.1% month on month in July, with the UK annual house price growth slowing to 1.8% in July, from 2.2% in the previous month.