You’ll have seen in our new corporate plan our commitment to building an unrivalled member experience. But what does that mean in practice? Kate Maughan, Director of Member Engagement, blogs about our approach to member experience through our engagement programme. In 2018 we carried out some research on members’ perceptions of the NHC. This gave […]
The aim of the Bill is to have more people living in decent, well-looked-after homes and to redress the balance between landlord and tenant. The Regulator of Social Housing will have stronger powers to issue unlimited fines, enter properties at short notice and ensure emergency repairs are carried out. Provisions in the Bill include: The […]
The Social Housing White Paper confirmed the Government’s intention to review the Decent Homes Standard, and since then the NHC has been working with officials at DLUHC and other industry bodies as part of the Review Sounding Board. This work has taken on greater significance since the announcement in February of a ‘levelling up mission’ […]
We are delighted to have joined the NHC having heard so many positive views relating to the platform and forum it provides our northern Registered Providers, Housing Associations and Local Authorities. JLL have worked in the social housing sector for over 25 years, keeping pace with massive financial, political and social change. What has been most […]
Since we first became familiar with the term ‘Levelling Up’, debate has centred on how the Government’s flagship agenda would strike the balance between innovation and infrastructure, and the desire to shift attention to our smaller towns and rekindle community identity. So it was, with the publication of the Levelling Up White Paper, that the […]
The government has published its much-anticipated reform proposals for renters, aiming to improve standards in the private sector, as part of the government’s mission to level up the country.
Today’s speech was delivered during a tough week for the Prime Minister, following the vote of no confidence in his leadership on Monday which he won by a smaller margin than he was anticipating. Political commentators now see Boris Johnson on a mission of political revival ahead of the two by-elections this month (Wakefield and […]
On 26th May, we joined with the National Housing Federation and Homes for the North in Manchester to bring together housing leaders in the region to look at housing decarbonisation and the steps needed leading up to 2030 to turn theory into reality. Charlie Norman, Chief Executive of MSV, chaired the first half of the […]
We’ve launched our ambitious, new corporate plan – it sets out how we’ll support you over the next three years to help you create better homes and places. This new plan focusses on your unrivalled member experience, it outlines our influencing priorities for the next few years: meeting the net zero challenge and housing at […]
Children and staff from a school for autistic children in Middlesbrough celebrated the official opening of the school recently to coincide with World Autism Acceptance Week. The Mackenzie Thorpe Centre is the North East Autism Society’s (NEAS) newest school at South Bank and provides care and support for up to 30 children aged 5 to […]
