Designer Contracts strengthens team

Designer Contracts, the UK’s largest flooring supplier, has announced a new, senior appointment to support its continued success. Lee Hassett joins the head office team as project executive with over 30 years’ experience in the flooring industry. With 11 years... View Article

One unforgettable day for Designer Contracts

Designer Contracts – the UK’s largest flooring contractor – has supported one of the country’s leading children’s charities, ChildLine, by sponsoring its services for one day. (3rd December 2018.) The leading counselling service charity, provided by the NSPCC, helps thousands... View Article

Using data to boost building safety post-Grenfell

By Nicola Brown, Director of housing technology solutions provider ROCC In our lives, it seems we are inundated with a deluge of data. In housing, we have been conscious for some time now of Big Data sets, with software providers... View Article

Building more social homes is a no brainer

Bringing together sixteen commissioners from across the political spectrum, Shelter have released a report titled, ‘A vision for social housing’, which analyses the state of social housing across the country. The report reinforces the message that the entire housing sector... View Article

Three million new social homes key to solving housing crisis

A landmark report by Shelter’s social housing commission published today calls for an ambitious 3.1 million new homes, extending the offer of social housing to many more people. After the Grenfell Tower fire, the charity brought together 16 independent commissioners... View Article

Crisis announced as L&Q’s new charity partner

Two of the UK’s largest housing bodies have joined forces for the first time to tackle homelessness. Crisis, the national charity for homeless people, has been announced as social housing provider L&Q’s charity partner for the next two years. L&Q... View Article

Council joins London-wide group to improve temporary housing

Croydon Council has joined a London-wide initiative set up to strike better deals when finding temporary accommodation for homeless families. At its cabinet meeting last night (Monday), the council signed up to joining Capital Letters, a scheme where participating councils... View Article

Lettings management boss banned for abusing tenants’ deposits

A lettings management director from Dorset has been disqualified for failing to protect thousands of pounds of tenants’ deposits. Kari Jade Ridout (46), from Blandford Forum, Dorset, was the sole director of Woodhouse Residential Lettings Limited, a lettings management company... View Article

Tyne Housing appoints new chief executive

North East housing and support provider, Tyne Housing Group has appointed Steve McKinlay as Chief Executive to lead the organisation and deliver its new strategic priorities. The appointment comes after the Group Board reviewed its business operations and set out... View Article

The curious incident of the missing prosecutions

Recent newspaper headlines have focused on the estimated 10,000 rogue landlords in the private rented sector and why none of them currently appear on the new national database that is meant to protect tenants from harassment and dangerous property conditions.... View Article

Review calls for overhaul to improve home adaptations

Housing and health partnership boards should be set up in every area of England to maximise the impact of grants for home adaptations, according to an independent government review. Similar in structure to local safeguarding children’s boards, they would bring... View Article