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From Local Government Chronice Planning reforms included in today’s Queen’s speech have been denounced as a “complete disaster in the making” that will lead to "more slum housing built to maximise profits" by one of the country's leading sector bodies. The government today said a planning bill will create a “simpler, faster and more modern … Continue reading Queen’s speech: planning reforms denounced as ‘complete disaster’

Housing Revenue Accounts (HRAs) manage council housing. They receive no subsidy. Their income is overwhelmingly from tenants' rent and service charges; 94% of the collective income of all HRAs. The quality of the homes, and hence the living conditions of tenants, depends upon key housing components (bathrooms, kitchens, central heating, roofs etc) being renewed in … Continue reading Labour must challenge the Tories under-funding of existing council housing

Each year those local authorities with council housing send in a host of statistics relating to their stock to the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Amongst other things they tell us how many homes have been built or bought, how many homes have been sold under right to buy or demolished. I have … Continue reading No large scale council house building programme without central government grant and an end to RTB

Grant funding, the Housing Revenue Account and Local Housing Companies Martin Wicks (Labour Campaign for Council Housing) and Paul Watt (Birkbeck,University of London & LCCH) are presenting a paper at the 2021 Housing StudiesAssociation Conference - Preparing for the future and learning from the past - onThursday 15th April. Conference information is available here:https://www.housing-studies-association.org/pages/140-hsa-2021-conference The … Continue reading Back to the future in local authority housing?