Over a thousand register for right to buy in Wandsworth

Wandsworth Council report that over a thousand council tenants have registered for the right to buy since the increased discounts… Read more »

Future council housing in Hammersmith & Fulham only for those earning less than £40,000

At a Cabinet Meeting for Hammersmith and Fulham Council on Monday evening we will be considering a new Housing Allocation… Read more »

Movers and shakers in the housing sector named

24housing magazine has published their list of Power Players Top 50 An interesting list. Housing Minister Grant Shapps came in… Read more »

Shapps complains to BBC over Newham coverage

The Housing Minister Grant Shapps has sent the following letter to Helen Boaden the Director of News for the BBC…. Read more »

Sir Robin Wales does have a choice

The BBC reports that Labour-run Newham Council has asked a Stoke-on-Trent housing association to take on up to 500 families… Read more »

Huge interest in right to buy – but why is the Government not promoting it?

We have 17,500 council homes in my borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Last year just seven were sold under the… Read more »

Labour housing scheme destroyed 10,000 homes – built 1,000

A recent debate on regeneration in Westminster Hall brought him the terrible scale of the modernist destruction of the Labour… Read more »

Labour attack right to buy as “fire-sale of community assets”

Yesterday the Prime Minister was in Wandsworth talking to council tenants who will have the chance to get on the… Read more »

Launch of rejuvenated Right to Buy

The Labour Government didn't officially end the right to buy for council tenants. But effectively they killed it off. By… Read more »

Licence bought to build Prince’s houses in Oxfordshire

Anthony Jelley on plans to make the Prince's Foundation house shown at the Ideal Home Exhibition a reality One of… Read more »

The Government’s planning reforms look like another policy that will anger the Tory grassroots

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. There's a section of James Forsyth's Mail on Sunday column that's worth noting: "George… Read more »

Guardian misrepresent Conservative Home (shock)

In 2009 Conservative Home ran an article by Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh and John Moss about the importance of reforming social… Read more »

Council tenants to be paid to carry out their own repairs

The Sun reports that the Government is to proceed with their scheme for council tenants to be rewarded for carrying… Read more »

Housing associations start to publish their spending

Housing associations are starting to become more transparent about their spending. Viridian Housing will publish spending items over £500 and… Read more »

Council plans to ban housing applicants who give false information

An interesting proposal from Norwich Council that those in temporary accommodation on the waiting list will be banned from making… Read more »