Energy retrofitting firm Next Energy has secured £40 million in contract deals as part of the government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Wave (SHDF) and Home Upgrade Grant (HUG2) initiatives. The business, which is headquartered in Prescot, has agreed deals to work with some of Merseyside's most prominent social landlords including Plus ... Read More...
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Customer Contact Association (CCA) Global Standard© has named One Vision Housing a silver winner at this year’s awards ceremony, in recognition of its excellent customer service. Anne Marie Forsyth, chief executive of CCA, says: "It's been a challenging two years for us all. Many difficult situations have been faced, ways of ... Read More...
MSB has acquired Widnes-based social housing practice Knox Ellis for an undisclosed fee. The move will take the number of employees at the Liverpool law firm to 135 and it will be looking to recruit further in the coming months. Founded by Tom Knox and Sarah Ellis, Knox Ellis acts for private registered providers ... Read More...
A new craft workshop at Home Farm in Croxteth Park is transforming unwanted items from social housing landlords into ornaments, bric-a-bac and even cattle and pig sheds. Adults with learning difficulties have been enlisted to help create the pieces, which are available to buy onsite, from raw materials such as broken ... Read More...
Liverpool City Council looks set to adopt a new strategy which will guide social housing tenancy policy for the next three years. It’s hoped the revised framework will limit the number of fixed term tenancies issued across the region. A report set to be discussed by the council’s cabinet on Friday (6 ... Read More...
Liverpool City Council could be about to enter the housing market under new proposals to be discussed by the city's cabinet this week. Known as the Liverpool Local Authority Housing Company (LLAHC), the commercial venture aims to develop 10,000 rent-to-buy homes in an effort to help boost council funds. A report, to ... Read More...
Housing association staff will be showing support for Liverpool’s Whitechapel Centre as they take on a gruelling fundraising challenge. A team of 15 runners from Liverpool Housing Trust (LHT) and Liverpool-based Symphony Housing Group will tackle more than 160 miles between them in a series of events kicking off this Sunday ... Read More...
Almost 30 new houses could be built across four sites in Toxteth under plans submitted to the council. Liverpool Mutual Homes is behind the proposed scheme which would see a mix of two-bedroom and three-bedroom properties built around Warwick Street. The homes would be split across four plots, all of which are ... Read More...
Potential buyers in the Liverpool City Region are expected to benefit from an increase of developments for Shared Ownership in the area. Sandy Kelly, head of Help to Buy North West, has predicted a rise in the number of providers entering the Shared Ownership market, as the government increases funding for ... Read More...
In his Summer Budget Chancellor George Osborne announced some pretty seismic changes for social housing. Addressing the House of Commons in the first Conservative-only budget since 1996, the Chancellor revealed that from next year social housing rents will fall by 1% per year for the next four years, while for those ... Read More...