Platform Housing Group has reported strong operational performance for the year ending 31 March 2026, including its highest number of new home completions in more than five years and record low customer arrears. The housing association completed 1380 affordable homes... View Article

New white paper warns people can be left living with serious unresolved hazards where essential safety work cannot be completed in social homes The Association of Safety and Compliance Professionals has launched a national campaign to protect residents from serious... View Article

Platform Housing Group has secured grant funding through the government’s Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES) to support improvements to two of its residential heat networks. The funding, awarded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), will support an... View Article

Housing association Salix Homes has secured £1.2million in Government funding to support major improvements to heating systems at three of its tower blocks in Salford. Salix Homes, which owns more than 8,000 homes across Salford, is one of the recipients in the latest round of funding via the Government’s Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES), which provides financial support to improve the... View Article

More homes for local families are on the way in Gloucestershire after planners approved a 95-home affordable development in Highnam. BFL (Bromford Flagship LiveWest) is behind the development off Newent Road in the village, which is in the borough of Tewkesbury. Forty-nine of... View Article

Hammersmith & Fulham Council becomes London’s first local authority to roll out Octopus Energy’s groundbreaking Tenant Power tariff UK’s first green tech energy tariff that rewards both social housing landlords and tenants Slashes electricity bills for social housing tenants by... View Article

Life-saving defibrillators are being installed on all 38 of Karbon Homes’ over 55s housing schemes across the North East, as the housing association partners with Red Sky Foundation to help save lives in local communities. With £34,000 of funding through Karbon’s Unlocking Social Value Fund, matched funded with £28,000 from Red... View Article

The village of Badsey in Worcestershire is set to gain 75 new affordable homes. Housing provider Bromford Flagship LiveWest (BFL) has bought the Brewers Lane site from Northern Trust Land and will build the homes itself, using its in-house construction... View Article

Work has started on new homes that will give families in the Boston area more affordable options to live. The first of the 80 dwellings at Puritan Way will be ready in April next year with more to follow in the coming months.  The... View Article

Maintenance, refurbishment and fit-out contractor Novus Property Solutions has secured a new contract with Aspire Housing to deliver improvements across the housing association’s portfolio of homes in Staffordshire and Cheshire. With many of the windows and doors across the portfolio now more than a... View Article

By Jonathan Platt, existing buildings lead at AES Sustainability In the years following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the UK construction and property sectors have undergone a profound regulatory transformation. Fire safety is now a dominant driver when it comes to... View Article