3/25/2025 2:08:17 PM Treasury announces additional £2 Billion Investment in Affordable Housing By Ben Halsey Triya Maicha Jonathan Jarvis Another day, another ‘once in a generation’ announcement, but the latest significant boost to existing grant funding has been uniformly...
3/25/2025 11:31:32 AM Upper Tribunal varies flat leases enabling a Right to Manage company to recover costs of service charge enforcement By Zoe McLean-Wells Mark Foxcroft Under Part IV of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (the Act), a party to a long lease of a flat can apply to the First-Tier Tribunal...
3/21/2025 1:00:54 PM NHF Housing Finance Conference: Key Takeaways By Alice Overton Rachel Orgill-Harris Reflecting on a fantastic few days in Liverpool for the NHF Housing Finance Conference. The Devonshires team was out in force, hosting a...
3/5/2025 11:15:32 AM The Crime and Policing Bill- what does it mean for housing providers? By Victoria Smith The Crime and Policing bill (‘the Bill’) was introduced to House of Commons and had its first reading on 25 February 2025. The second...
2/26/2025 5:09:45 PM Government Responds to the Phase 2 Grenfell Inquiry Report By Mark London On 26 February 2025, in a Ministerial statement in the House of Commons, Angela Rayner commented on the Phase 2 report and noted that the...
2/25/2025 1:18:20 PM The one about the Moths, the Mansion, and Misrepresentation - Iva Patarkatsishvili & Yevhen Hunyak v William Woodward-Fisher [2025] EWHC 265 (Ch) By Ben Halsey Stavrina Tofallis Judgment has now been handed down by the High Court in the above case: Judiciary.uk Aside from representing a unique opportunity for...
2/12/2025 4:22:04 PM Breaking news - Top-up package announced for Affordable Housing funding programme(s) By Ben Halsey Additional funding has been announced in respect of the existing Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) - £300m for the delivery of up to 2,800...
2/7/2025 3:37:23 PM Awaab's Law - UPDATE By Victoria Smith A press release from the MHCLG has confirmed that from October, social landlords will be forced to investigate and fix dangerous damp and...
1/29/2025 10:38:43 AM Housing Ombudsman publishes evaluation of Spotlight report on Knowledge and Information Management By Victoria Smith Kerri Harrison The Housing Ombudsman ('HO') shares steps to improve knowledge and information management ('KIM') by publishing an evaluation of its...
1/10/2025 3:50:08 PM Housing Ombudsman's new power to issue Good Practice will focus on relationship management By Victoria Smith Kerri Harrison Good Practice is a power introduced by the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 and has been developed through consultation with...
12/11/2024 10:40:04 AM Top Tips: handling negative press By Nikki Bowker It is easy to think of recent examples of people/organisations handling negative press poorly, in a way that has served only to worsen...
12/5/2024 2:45:40 PM Remediation Acceleration Plan - Deadline set for the removal of dangerous cladding By Mark London Rachel Jones Building owners have 5 years to remove dangerous cladding, or they face potential prison sentences On 2nd December, in open letters to...