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If you have heard that an unsuitable new housing development is being proposed near where you live then you may want to raise an objection. The plans could involve building on the Green Belt or countryside, or simply see an increasing number of homes in your area, putting pressure on existing traffic congestion and air … Read more
Dumb Perignon! Housing minister who should be sorting out the cladding scandal is too busy reviewing champagne Housing Minister Chris Pincher advised voters to drink as ‘alternative vaccine’ In an article for The Critic, he advised glugging £174-a-bottle champagne Pincher recommended trying the 166th edition of the Grand Cru Cuvée Chris Pincher’s department is responsible … Read more
Britain’s £10 TRILLION price tag: Value of entire UK includes £1.9trn of housing and £138bn of trains and buses, ONS figures reveal Figures show that Britain and everything in it is worth £10,049,743,000,000 The country’s housing stock was calculated to be worth £1.9trillion alone Huge Covid-related public borrowing is likely to have dragged down the total … Read more
Few would have predicted that in a year when a pandemic swept the world, the UK housing market would be riding high. House prices rose 7.6 per cent to an all- time high average of £253,243, says the Halifax. The 121,740 properties sold in October alone – the latest data – were a whopping 14 … Read more
Extra £62bn of housing sales agreed this year off back of post-lockdown mini-boom By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 20 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 20 December 2020 An extra £62billion of housing sales have been agreed this year off the back of a post-lockdown mini-boom, according to Zoopla. The … Read more
Studio 10 host Sarah Harris reflects on how far she’s come after growing up in housing commission and caravan parks – as she stuns on the cover of The Australian Women’s Weekly By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 21:33 GMT, 2 December 2020 | Updated: 22:04 GMT, 2 December 2020 She is one … Read more
Billionaire ruler of Dubai is told he can build a six-bed lodge in the Scottish Highlands… if he pays £30,000 towards affordable housing in the area, council says Billionaire ruler of Dubai won fight to build a six-bed lodge on his Scottish estate But Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum will have to pay out £30,000 … Read more
House building plummets by a third with developers blaming local authority planning delays more than the pandemic Britain’s seven largest house builders have reported housing completions are down, on average, by 35 per cent from a year ago Small and medium sized developers have also warned their housing completions will be down this year – … Read more
A mother-of-five who lost everything when her family’s £200,000 dream home fell off a cliff is still living in temporary housing five months later. Emma Tullett, 43, and her family have been living in the new accommodation since their bungalow, called Cliffhanger, plunged over the edge in June just four days after a section of … Read more
Tenants in social housing will now have the legal right to smoke and carbon monoxide alarms for the first time following the Grenfell Tower fire. Government ministers are set to announce the plans in order to put a stop to a law which sees tenants living in council housing given less protection than those living … Read more