{"id":11799,"date":"2026-07-03T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:07:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:07:57","slug":"friday-03-07-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/friday-03-07-2026-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday: 03\/07\/2026 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 03\/07\/2026<\/h6>\n
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Your daily round-up of key housing news, funding, partnerships and policy updates across the UK.<\/div>\n <\/div><\/span><\/h6>\n

Clarion Housing Group has begun procuring a design team for the first phase of its \u00a360m Gorton regeneration programme in Manchester, delivering 171 affordable homes as part of a wider 400-home redevelopment across 15 sites. <\/span> Place North West<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

WPS has commenced Birmingham City Council\u2019s \u00a31.1bn, 10-year housing maintenance contract, delivering repairs, planned maintenance, void management and heating services through Liberty for more than 30,000 council homes across the city. <\/span> Wates Property Services<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Salix Homes has reappointed Emanuel Whittaker and Connolly to deliver a \u00a32.8m-a-year home improvement programme from 2026 to 2029, upgrading around 3,000 homes across Salford, including heating upgrades for 1,200 properties. <\/span> Salix Homes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The UK government has announced that 18,771 homes across East Anglia, Lincolnshire and the Home Counties have moved closer to delivery after the Water Delivery Taskforce reached an agreement with Anglian Water to resolve wastewater infrastructure constraints. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The South East Consortium has launched its new Repairs and Maintenance Dynamic Market, providing housing providers with a compliant procurement route for responsive repairs, voids and planned maintenance, while enabling contractors to join throughout the life of the agreement. <\/span> South East Consortium<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Kier Group has secured additional commissions on Southern Water\u2019s AMP8 programme, taking its potential workload to almost \u00a3500m. Meanwhile, Gleeds has joined the \u00a33.5bn Construction Professional Services 2 framework, and Stantec has secured places on eight lots of the Scotland Excel Engineering and Technical Consultancy Framework. Separately, planning approval has been granted to refurbish the Grade II-listed Albert Buildings in the City of London into a mixed-use development with 39 serviced apartments. <\/span> Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Scottish Construction Now<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Scottish Construction Now<\/span><\/a>, and<\/span> Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Bron Afon Community Housing has started construction of 30 energy-efficient affordable apartments in Newport, marking its first development in the city. Delivered with construction partner MVR Solutions, the scheme is due for completion in December 2027. <\/span>Wales247<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Pioneer Group has reported significant improvements in its 2025\/26 Tenant Satisfaction Measures, highlighting stronger customer satisfaction and service performance across key areas as a result of ongoing improvements to resident services. <\/span> The Pioneer Group<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A new report from the Fabian Society says a package of planning and housing reforms could deliver an additional 87,000 homes annually, increasing projected housebuilding in 2029\/30 by 36%. <\/span> Fabian Society<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Vistry Group and L&Q have secured outline approval for Zone 2 of the Chelmsford Garden Community, enabling a 3,500-home neighbourhood. Meanwhile, Taylor Wimpey, Persimmon and Newcastle City Council are exploring plans for 240 additional homes at Newcastle Great Park. Elsewhere, outline proposals have been submitted for up to 190 homes in Barnham, West Sussex, while developers have unveiled plans for a 110-home scheme in a Kent village. <\/span>Vistry Group<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Place North East<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> The Argus<\/span><\/a>, and<\/span> Kent Live<\/span><\/a>
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All information is curated from public sources and market intelligence.
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Daily News: 03\/07\/2026 Clarion Housing Group has begun procuring a design team for the first phase of its \u00a360m Gorton regeneration programme in Manchester, delivering 171 affordable homes as part of a wider 400-home redevelopment across 15 sites. Place North West WPS has commenced Birmingham City Council\u2019s \u00a31.1bn, 10-year housing maintenance contract, delivering repairs, planned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11816,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions\/11816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}