{"id":12780,"date":"2026-08-27T09:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=12780"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:23:23","slug":"thursday-27-08-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/thursday-27-08-2026-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: 27\/08\/2026 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 27\/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

Lewisham Council has selected The Hill Group as its strategic development partner under a 10-year agreement, extendable by five years, supporting up to \u00a31.5bn of affordable housing and regeneration delivery. <\/span> Lewisham London Borough<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Wates is set to take over completion of Hackney Council\u2019s near-\u00a3200m Britannia housing scheme, delivering 371 homes across four tower blocks, following Ardmore Construction Group\u2019s collapse. <\/span> Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The latest government data shows 4,697 residential buildings over 11 metres with unsafe cladding under monitoring, with 2,551 undergoing or completing remediation and 1,833 fully completed, leaving a substantial pipeline of building safety work. <\/span> GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Regulator of Social Housing has upgraded Livin Housing and Community Gateway to C1, recognising improvements in stock condition, repairs, maintenance and health and safety. Meanwhile, Amplius Living received a C2 grading, with weaknesses identified in repairs, service quality and its response to damp and mould. Separately, Bolton Council has launched an investigation after reports that hundreds of building control certificates are missing, raising concerns among residents and architects. <\/span> GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Construction News (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lovell has been selected by Codi Group to deliver 143 new homes on the former County Hall site in Cwmbran. Vistry has secured a deal with Amplius to deliver 100 affordable homes at Great Haddon in Peterborough. Cubed Group and Connect Housing are developing 23 energy-efficient, low-carbon homes for social rent in East Leeds, with completion scheduled for autumn 2027. <\/span> Insider Media<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Vistry Group Plc<\/span><\/a>, and<\/span> TheBusinessDesk.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Cambridge City Council has secured Homes England funding to deliver 72 council homes as part of a 165-flat redevelopment replacing Hanover Court and Princess Court, which are set to be demolished due to poor condition and fire safety concerns. <\/span> BBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A coroner found that a five-year-old boy died after falling from an \u201cinsecure\u201d window in temporary accommodation provided by Newham Council, highlighting serious housing safety failures. A north London council has paid nearly \u00a32,000 compensation after a repair error left a resident without heating for almost eight months. Residents in a seafront tower block face repair bills of almost \u00a338,000 each for essential works. <\/span> Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> MyLondon<\/span><\/a>, and<\/span> BBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Middlesbrough has outlined plans for thousands of new homes across Middlehaven, Coulby Newham and Gresham as part of wider regeneration including a theatre and hotel. Barratt Redrow is progressing plans for 350 homes in York, while HB Reavis has unveiled a retrofit-led redesign of One Waterloo including student housing. Elsewhere, proposals include up to 150 homes in Heywood, 165 homes near Kendal, and hundreds across two Barnsley sites, including 126 homes from Keepmoat. Bellway Homes has also submitted plans for 123 homes in Worthing. <\/span> BBC<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> The Press<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> The Westmorland Gazette<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Insider Media<\/span><\/a>, and<\/span> The Argus<\/span><\/a>
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Daily News: 27\/08\/2026 Lewisham Council has selected The Hill Group as its strategic development partner under a 10-year agreement, extendable by five years, supporting up to \u00a31.5bn of affordable housing and regeneration delivery. Lewisham London Borough Wates is set to take over completion of Hackney Council\u2019s near-\u00a3200m Britannia housing scheme, delivering 371 homes across four […]<\/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-12780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780","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=12780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12786,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions\/12786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}