{"id":12458,"date":"2026-08-12T11:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=12458"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:30:43","slug":"wednesday-12-08-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/wednesday-12-08-2026-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday: 12\/08\/2026 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
Daily News: 12\/08\/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

Stockport Council has selected a delivery partner for its \u00a3480m heat network project, supporting major investment in local heat infrastructure and expanding heat network provision across Stockport. <\/span> Partnerships Bulletin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Housing Plus Group has secured \u00a36.4m from WMCA to deliver 205 new social rent homes across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin, increasing affordable housing provision. <\/span> Housing Digital<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Abri Group reported an improved surplus following asset disposals while exploring a merger. The 50,000-home provider aims to build 20,000 homes over the next decade and become top-five. <\/span> Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

GLA-backed affordable housing starts reached 1,070 in Q1 2026\/27, up 208% from 347 starts last year, signalling significantly stronger affordable housing delivery across London.\u00a0Housing Today (register)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Curo reported lower turnover following reduced private housing sales but returned to surplus after last year\u2019s deficit, reflecting improved financial performance while managing development activity amid changing market conditions. <\/span> Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Bellway built 9,695 homes in its latest financial year, exceeding previous guidance and demonstrating stronger-than-expected delivery despite challenging market conditions, supporting new-build housing supply across the UK. Higgins Group is close to taking over a stalled Oxford housing project following Henry Construction\u2019s collapse three years ago, potentially restarting the development and bringing forward previously delayed construction activity. <\/span> Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Construction News (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Bromford Flagship LiveWest\u2019s Port Way development in Gloucester has been approved, delivering 180 homes including 77 social rent, 59 shared ownership and 44 market-sale properties, with construction starting this summer. <\/span> Bromford Housing Association Limited<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Construction of an affordable housing scheme in Farsley, west Leeds, is expected to start in November after Leeds City Council granted planning permission, increasing local affordable housing supply. <\/span> Telegraph and Argus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Plans for 3,400 homes north of Telford have raised concerns among councillors. Newham approved a residential tower within its Carpenters Primary School replacement scheme, outside the wider 2,300-home estate masterplan. Orgreave Park proposes 900 homes, while Homes England has lodged plans for over 300 homes in Annitsford and 150 homes are planned on Waltham\u2019s edge near Grimsby. BBC<\/a>, Housing Today (register)<\/a>, BBC<\/a>, Chronicle Live<\/a> and BBC<\/a> <\/span>\n

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Daily News: 12\/08\/2026 Stockport Council has selected a delivery partner for its \u00a3480m heat network project, supporting major investment in local heat infrastructure and expanding heat network provision across Stockport. Partnerships Bulletin Housing Plus Group has secured \u00a36.4m from WMCA to deliver 205 new social rent homes across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin, increasing affordable […]<\/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-12458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458","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=12458"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12476,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions\/12476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}