A Midlands based housing association is celebrating starting on more than 1600 affordable homes in its development programme. Platform Housing Group has reported the figure as part of its end... View Article

A Midlands housing association is a finalist in a top sustainability award. Platform Housing Group has been shortlisted in The Landlord of the Year category in the 2025 Unlock Net... View Article

A 71-home affordable housing development in Cheltenham has been completed. Gloucestershire-based housing association Bromford completed the final touches to the remaining homes last week, getting them ready for new customers... View Article

Octopus Real Estate, part of Octopus Investments and a leading UK specialist real estate lender and investor, is delighted to announce the appointment of Ellie Vlavianou as an Investment Director... View Article

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has published a report on the fundamental issues with some leased-based provision of specialised supported housing. This is where social landlords lease properties on... View Article

A Midlands housing association has launched a new programme aimed at tackling digital exclusion among its customers. Platform Housing Group has created a group of colleagues called Platform Digital Ninjas... View Article

Two Rivers Housing secured £4.56m in funding from the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund. Retrofitting work will improve the energy efficiency of homes rated below EPC Band C. The work... View Article

A new affordable housing development in Lincolnshire has been delivered to Platform Housing Group, featuring a cluster of homes built to exceed the 2025 Future Homes Standard. The site at... View Article

Midlands-based homebuilder, Cameron Homes, has now started works on its new development in the village of Bomere Heath in Shropshire. Located on Shrewsbury Road, the Willow Rise development will offer a... View Article

A Midlands housing association has been named as runner up in a prestigious community award. Platform Housing Group has been commended in the Collaborative Working category in the 2025 Building... View Article

Essex-based housing association CHP is delighted to announce a new, long-term partnership with NewArch Homes. NewArch Homes, a registered provider of social housing owned by the Octopus Affordable Housing Fund,... View Article

As temperatures rise and water systems become more active, industry experts are urging facilities managers to prioritise rapid Legionella testing as part of their spring maintenance plans. As most facilities managers will already know, Legionella pneumophila,... View Article

Career progression is important, but for most of the 44 colleagues who’ve worked for Peabody for more than 30 years, the thing they value the most is their colleagues.  “It’s... View Article

Two Rivers Housing has officially bought its repairs team back in house and closed its facilities management company Centigen Facilities Management (Centigen FM). The Gloucestershire-based housing association announced plans to... View Article

Nicholas Harris, the long-standing Chief Executive of leading affordable housing provider, Stonewater, has announced he is to step down after almost a decade in the role. His decision has been... View Article

One of the Midlands largest housing associations in partnership with one of the UK’s top house builders has handed over a new retirement village in Hereford. Platform Housing Group and... View Article

At their meeting today, Sefton Council’s Cabinet approved a scheme to enable new social housing tenants of future council homes to rent essential items of furniture. cab would mean people... View Article

A major new affordable housing project on Springfield Avenue in Bridlington is now under construction. East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s development includes 30 new council homes, comprising of 24, one-bedroom,... View Article

Homes England has urged the Government to allow it the maximum levels of funding possible in the upcoming spending review in order to deliver the Government’s housebuilding targets. Eamonn Boyle,... View Article

According to a recent survey, improving compliance and safety continues to be the number one priority for facilities management professionals. However, 14% of respondents expressed uncertainty about meeting building maintenance... View Article

The highly-anticipated Platinum sponsor has been announced for the 2025 William Sutton Prize. Now in its sixth year and headed by the UK’s largest housing association, Clarion Housing Group, in 2025 the... View Article

AJC Group has officially broken ground at the former NHS Becton Centre in Barton-on-Sea, marking the commencement of an important local affordable housing development in partnership with VIVID. This milestone... View Article