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 […]
Locata’s homelessness system is now being used by more than 115 local authorities across the country. The HPA2 system was launched in 2018 to help officers with their new duties under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. The system was essentially an upgrade to Locata’s existing Homelessness Prevention and Advice software that had been built 10 […]
The Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) was launched by Government on 13 April 2022 and this paper briefly summarises the UKSPF Prospectus. There will be opportunities in the development of local Investment Plans for the housing sector as a whole to work in partnership so that the UKSPF flowing into communities aligns with housing priorities. Within […]
The Northern Housing Consortium’s Private Rented Sector Network met for the first time in 2022 this month, with plenty to discuss since the recent Queen’s Speech. The Network was established to offer NHC members working in or connected to private sector housing the space to network and share good practice from across the northern regions […]
We’ve been reflecting on the sad news of the loss of Steve Douglas earlier this month. The NHC had a long-standing relationship with Steve, particularly through his role in the Commission for Housing in the North. The Commission articulated ambitions that were unique to the North, calling for more local flexibility and the importance of […]
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The Government’s independent advisor on tackling climate change has recently published their assessment of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Heat and Buildings Strategy, which was launched in October last year. The Heat and Buildings Strategy set out Government’s approach to decarbonising buildings, a major part of meeting the net zero by […]
Levelling Up Community Regeneration The Government’s Levelling Up agenda has brought a renewed focus on tackling the place-based challenges that hold back many neighbourhoods; inequality and deprivation; poor quality, mismanaged private rented sector housing; and long term vacant and derelict housing. Amongst a number of proposed interventions, the Government plans to introduce measures to empower […]
On 12 May, BEIS and the Turner & Townsend team working on the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator (SHRA) led a funding guidance workshop for Wave 2 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund. Slides from this workshop can be accessed here, with information on likely policy for Wave 2, as well as how to access support […]
The demise of section 106 and everything else you need to know The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, announced in the Queen’s Speech started its progress through Parliament with its first reading on 11 May. This is one of the flagship bills of the Parliamentary session and, of all the bills announced in the Queen’s Speech, […]
