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Propertymark: Councils need more cash to police ‘decent homes’
Local authorities need to be fully resourced for better homes and landlords who do not treat their tenants fairly need to be held accountable.
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Housing ministers rapped over ‘advertorials’ by own marketing watchdog!
DLUHC told it must not repeat seven adverts that promoted the Government’s levelling-up agenda after complaints from Labour MPs.
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Rightmove lands £25,000 government parking data deal
Property portal Rightmove has landed a deal with the Department for Transport (DfT) that allows the government to access its data on off-street parking around the UK. The initial one-year deal provides the DfT with a 12-month ‘Rightmove Data License’ for just £25,000 and pundits say it illustrates how embedded the firm’s data has become in everyday life. HOUSING Rightmove has previously won deals to provide data on property market trends to the then Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government – now the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – and its executive agency Homes England. Its engagement with the DfT is its first deal related to parking data. The contract, which came into effect on September 28, relates to data collated by Rightmove regarding the availability of off-street parking spaces. This information will be used by the DfT’s Roads, Places, Environment and Future Mobility team. PARKING Last year, the DfT and Manchester City Council began work on a pilot project to create a national parking platform, an online tool that people can use to pay for parking. It will record and distribute this data to local authorities nationwide. Data on used-car prices from Auto Trader is already used…
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Government reveals new plans to sort out building safety problems
DLUHC calls for more evidence from leaseholders as it launches new consultation on cladding and high rises.
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GOVE: House builders must pay £4bn to release leaseholders from cladding nightmare
Housing secretary Michael Gove is to tell the UK’s house building industry today that it must foot the estimated £4 billion bill to replace fire-risk cladding on thousands of towers across the UK. Gove will say that the Government is to ‘expose and pursue’ companies who fitted flammable cladding to towers including the UK’s main house builders. He is also expected to reveal new measures that will make it easier for the estimated 500,000 leaseholder caught up in the scandal to sell their homes. Although government funding is already in place for taller towers over 18.5 metres, many leaseholders in medium-size towers remain trapped as huge remediation and other costs related to cladding mean home owners are unable to sell or re-mortgage their properties. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities which Gove leads has been under huge pressure from campaigners and MPs from across the political spectrum to help these leaseholders, many of whom have been forced to take out huge loans to pay for cladding remediation. Voluntary fund Gove is expected to tell house builders and cladding firms today that ‘we are coming for you’ and expects them to pay into a voluntary fund for buildings between…
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Renting reform White Paper is delayed until next year, DLUHC confirms
Trade organisations suggest delay is to give Ministers time to consider the National Audit Office's soon-to-be published investigation into renting regulation.
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