{"id":7128,"date":"2025-02-20T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2025-02-21T06:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T06:45:55","slug":"thursday-20-02-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/thursday-20-02-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: 20\/02\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 20\/02\/2025<\/h6>\n

A review by One Housing, prompted by an Ombudsman investigation, has uncovered over 800 incorrect records related to asbestos risk in high-risk properties. Housing Ombudsman Service<\/a><\/p>\n

Bromford Housing Group has had a strong start to the year, securing land for 179 new homes across three sites as part of its commitment to delivering much-needed affordable housing. Bromford Housing Group<\/a><\/p>\n

Bath and North East Somerset Council has approved plans to tackle the housing affordability crisis, aiming to convert all available council land and buildings into housing, with over 5,500 people waiting for a suitable home. Meanwhile, new figures reveal nearly 1,500 complaints about damp and mould in social housing across Perth & Kinross over the past two years. BBC<\/a>, Scottish Housing News<\/a><\/p>\n

Pinnacle Group\u2019s Residential Management Services (RMS) division has expanded its portfolio with Bellway Homes, securing five new sites. Additionally, Highlight Housing has partnered with Custom Build Homes (CBH) to promote self-build and custom housebuilding across larger sites in England. FMJ<\/a>, Scottish Housing News<\/a><\/p>\n

Siderise Insulation Ltd is challenging a council decision banning it from future projects related to Grenfell Tower, arguing the move is “unwarranted” and launching a judicial review. In addition, Northern Ireland Water has criticised Stormont\u2019s proposal to ask housing developers to contribute to water infrastructure funding, saying it won\u2019t bridge the existing financial gap. Construction News (register)<\/a>, BBC<\/a><\/p>\n

The UK government has released the National Procurement Policy Statement, outlining its long-term objectives for public procurement. The document focuses on mission-driven government, with a goal to set ambitious, measurable targets that improve value for money, efficiency, and innovation in procurement processes. GOV.UK<\/a><\/p>\n

Passivhaus now 1% of UK new housing projects – Passivhaus projects account for 1% of all new UK homes under construction. Passivhaus Trust<\/a><\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s 401-home Metalworks project has been approved for a 16-storey development at Vauxhall Road and Leeds Street. In High Wycombe, Dandara Living plans to transform the Chilterns Shopping Centre into 300 build-to-rent homes. JRL\u2019s Malaysian backers have proposed a 580-home redevelopment of the former Shredded Wheat factory in Welwyn Garden City. In Essex, a 480-home development in Billericay raises concerns over urban sprawl, while Stockport\u2019s 250-home Green Belt proposal in Bramhall faces political opposition. Place North West<\/a>, Construction Enquirer, Construction Enquirer<\/a>, Essex Live<\/a>, and Place North West<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 20\/02\/2025 A review by One Housing, prompted by an Ombudsman investigation, has uncovered over 800 incorrect records related to asbestos risk in high-risk properties. Housing Ombudsman Service Bromford Housing Group has had a strong start to the year, securing land for 179 new homes across three sites as part of its commitment to […]<\/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-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","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=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7130,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}