{"id":13554,"date":"2026-10-13T09:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=13554"},"modified":"2026-10-13T09:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:25:16","slug":"tuesday-13-10-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/tuesday-13-10-2026-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday: 13\/10\/2026 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 13\/10\/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

Harrow Council seeks approval for an \u00a335.5m, eight-year framework covering minor, mechanical and electrical works across approximately 80 corporate buildings and operational sites, including schools, for maintenance, repairs, statutory compliance, emergency works and decarbonisation. <\/span> Harrow London Borough<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hull City Council has secured over \u00a39m through the Government\u2019s Social and Affordable Homes Programme to deliver 83 council homes across six sites, including \u00a36.6m for 51 homes and an earlier \u00a32.6m award for 32 homes. <\/span> Hull City Council<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Heat networks currently supply around 3% of UK heat demand, with social housing providers and local authorities facing regulatory uncertainty, limited capacity and constrained capital budgets as delivery expands. <\/span> Baxi UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Native Land has appointed Bennett Construction to deliver the main phase of St Mary\u2019s Wharf, a 180-home development in Guildford town centre, following confirmation of \u00a3132m in funding. Graham has been appointed by Gamuda Land UK to deliver a \u00a345m student accommodation scheme in Stratford, east London. SJ Roberts has started work on two housing schemes for Powys County Council under a \u00a33.3m contract, following the demolition of a former school to make way for social housing. Bellway is maintaining agreed rates with subcontractors despite rising costs. <\/span> Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Construction News (register)<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Place Midlands<\/span><\/a>, and<\/span> Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Housing Plus, a West Midlands housing provider, has increased its annual completions, turnover and surplus but missed its housing delivery target. A new report finds that more council tenants in Rugby are satisfied with the housing service provided by the council. Horsham Council plans to bring five long-term empty houses back into use as affordable homes. Gateshead Council workers have been denied access to homes for repairs, including emergency jobs, more than 2,000 times, costing the council \u00a390,000. L&Q has warned that its web services may remain unavailable for some time, with the G15 housing association\u2019s digital services still offline more than two weeks after a cyber-attack. <\/span> Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Rugby Observer<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> The Argus<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Chronicle Live<\/span><\/a>, and<\/span> Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Centre for Policy Studies estimates the UK had a shortfall of 6.5m homes in 2023 compared with Western European housing levels. Prosper UK\u2019s Housing Commission has published proposals to improve affordability, identifying two key barriers to housebuilding that must be addressed together <\/span>Centre for Policy Studies<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Prosper UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Plans for 802 homes at the former Lewisham College site have been recommended for approval, while Vistry and David Wilson Homes have secured approval for 550 homes in East Grinstead. Taylor Wimpey is consulting on 450 homes near Mollington. McLaren Construction has secured Gateway 2 approval for the \u00a3229m Ebury Bridge regeneration phase, covering 334 homes. Proposals are also progressing for 240 homes in Oxford, 141 in Hordle and 133 across three Sheffield sites, while 114 homes in Downham Market have been approved. <\/span> News Shopper<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Vistry Group Plc<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Place North West<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> This is Oxfordshire<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Show House<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Place Yorkshire<\/span><\/a>, and<\/span> Eastern Daily Press<\/span><\/a>\n

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Daily News: 13\/10\/2026 Harrow Council seeks approval for an \u00a335.5m, eight-year framework covering minor, mechanical and electrical works across approximately 80 corporate buildings and operational sites, including schools, for maintenance, repairs, statutory compliance, emergency works and decarbonisation. Harrow London Borough Hull City Council has secured over \u00a39m through the Government\u2019s Social and Affordable Homes Programme […]<\/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-13554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554","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=13554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13560,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554\/revisions\/13560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}