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The Latest Breaking News from Homes England

Andy Burnham announces thousands of new homes, but is the government much closer to its target?

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has promised the largest council house building programme since the immediate post-war period, pledging more than £9 billion of investment.

The Conversation

Home Office admits it has lost track of migrants with no right to be in UK – but doesn’t know how many

Home Office still focused on ‘short-term fixes’ to broken asylum system, MPs warn

The Independent UK

More than £52m reserved for social housing at risk after collapse of investment firms

Exclusive: 3,500 social homes could switch to private sector after companies run by Heylo Housing group go into administration

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National Housing Bank ‘will boost delivery of new homes’

The new body will be designated as a public financial institution and will work with mayors and local leaders, the Government said.

Evening Standard

Are York’s developers aiming high enough with UK’s largest regeneration project?

The £2.5bn York Central scheme is a huge opportunity to rethink the city centre but campaigners worry they will end up with an off-the-shelf development

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of affordable homes ‘held up by lack of money from providers’

New homes in England and Wales not being built as housing associations face financing issues, research shows

The Guardian - UK

Barratt moves into £150 million joint venture with Lloyds Bank and Homes England

MADE Partnership to target brownfield building sites and ‘garden villages’

Evening Standard

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UK government links with Barratt and Lloyds for £150m housebuilding project

Homes England joint venture will help towards aim to build 1.5m new homes over next five years

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve met seven housing ministers, one of them twice’: the head of Homes England on the battle to build

In the light of Labour’s ambitious housing programme, Peter Denton, the man charged with getting residential projects started for the private sector, has his work cut out

The Guardian - UK

Companies linked to Tory donors given £8.4bn in public contracts since 2016

Exclusive: Anti-corruption charity calls for ban on parties accepting donations from companies with public contracts

The Guardian - UK

Conservative manifesto puts home ownership up top – but ignores housing affordability

At the first UK general election debate between the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, and the leader of the opposition, Keir Starmer, Sunak claimed his government had “delivered 1 million new homes”.

The Conversation

YMCA: 'housing crisis will continue plaguing young people unless government makes changes'

Small organisations attempting to build affordable homes are struggling to find funding under the current system, warns report

Evening Standard

Help-to-buy delays leave borrowers unable to sell or remortgage and paying more

Since Homes England switched contractors, borrowers have been struggling to obtain vital documents

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Help-to-buy paperwork delays still endangering property sales and remortgages

Households fear being thousands of pounds out of pocket as problems beset Homes England administrator

The Guardian - UK

UK homeowners in limbo as help to buy firm won’t answer phone

Frustrated borrowers unable to sell or remortgage as company running loan scheme leaves them on hold

Bristol Post

South Bristol shopping centre will be knocked down after councillors’ shock u-turn

There are plans to build 850 new homes

The Guardian - UK

Help to buy has trapped me in an unsellable cladded flat

My block failed a fire safety inspection after Grenfell, but the scheme won’t allow me to buy a second property

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Birmingham Post

Funding secured to explore opportunity for Grimsby waterside living

Homes England support secured by North East Lincolnshire Council

Liverpool Echo

Temporary sewer planned on site where 670 new homes may be built

Plans were submitted to the council last month

Manchester Evening News

The Ancoats car park that will be very different from the rest

The 'mobility hub' will be the first of its kind in the UK

Bristol Post

Michael Gove promises to 'look closely' at Brislington Meadows controversy

The minister is the only person now who can intervene

Nottingham Post

Work starts to replace former Clifton college with 'fantastic' social housing and headquarters

Demolition of the former Nottingham College on Farnborough Road in Clifton began earlier this year and construction should begin in early June

Bristol Post

Last hope as residents urge Michael Gove to intervene to save Brislington Meadows

"We cannot tell you how much distress and upset this has caused"

Bristol Post

Key South Bristol development saved by affordable homes provider

Work to build 50 flats and a new store on the old Argos site had stalled

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