Twitter Suggested sample tweets to be used with the Campaign Partner image: We are backing a Net Zero North with @NHC #OurNorth Net Zero Councils across the North have declared climate emergencies. Housing can create jobs and cut emissions – that’s why we’re backing #OurNorth Net Zero with @NHC Housing associations and ALMOs have made […]
Yesterday Government provided detail on how to access the Green Home Grant scheme, which was announced as part of the Chancellor’s Summer Economic Statement last month. The Government confirmed the grant programme is scheduled to go live towards the end of September, and also opened bidding for a £500m local authority-led component. The £2bn scheme […]
Croydon LBC v Kalonga [2020] EWHC 1353 (QB)Tipples J A flexible tenancy is a type secure tenancy that can be granted by a local authority to its tenants. They must be granted for a minimum fixed term of two years however, at the end of this term, a mandatory ground for possession arises. Mrs Kalonga […]
Award-winning digital marketing agency, Mediaworks, has completed a year-long project with Home Group, the UK’s leading provider of high-quality housing, health, and social care to deliver a new digital experience. The project set out to deliver accessible and personalised online content to Home Group’s customer groups, enabling them to quickly find the information they are […]
The Northern Housing Consortium represents the views of housing organisations in the North of England, with our membership of local and combined authorities, ALMOs and housing associations representing 96% of social housing in the North. Our vision is to use our collective voice to have unrivalled influence in achieving housing policy that works for the […]
Develop your leadership skills, think differently about organisational challenges and come together with strategic leaders from across the sector through action learning. The Northern Housing Consortium is delighted to be working with Action Learning Associates to run a series of Action Learning Sets for strategic leaders in the sector from September 2020. Action Learning Sets […]
The influential Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee have called for social housing to be ‘top of the agenda’ for recovery. Their new report Building More Social Housing is the culmination of a year-long Inquiry, which included the NHC appearing before the Committee in October 2019. The report’s conclusions include that: At least 90,000 […]
The £400m Brownfield Housing Fund has now been largely allocated – and the North’s city regions are big winners. The Brownfield Housing Fund was announced at the March Budget – with Chancellor Rishi Sunak commenting it would help “ambitious Mayoral Combined Authorities and local areas to establish housing on brownfield land across the country”. On […]
On Wednesday 8th July, Chancellor Rishi Sunak presented his Summer Economic Update – the second stage in the Government’s economic response to Coronavirus. At the NHC, we urged the Chancellor to take the opportunity to place net zero and new homes at the heart of the North’s recovery. The Chancellor has previously warned that we […]
