{"id":7872,"date":"2025-05-16T12:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:31:32","slug":"friday-16-05-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/friday-16-05-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday: 16\/05\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 16\/05\/2025<\/h6>\n

Housing association Beacon Cymru Group has secured a \u00a3115m lending facility from NatWest to support the construction of 500 new homes and enhance the energy efficiency of its existing housing stock. <\/span>Business Live<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Royal Borough of Greenwich led London for the third year with 608 new affordable homes started and 790 completed last year. East Lothian Council is progressing well on its 2024-29 housing strategy, delivering affordable homes and reducing homelessness. Northeast councils are racing to unlock a \u00a320m Housing Infrastructure Fund for affordable housing in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, unused since 2016. <\/span>Royal Borough of Greenwich<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Scottish Housing News<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Scottish Housing News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A 2023 SFHA survey highlights housing associations\u2019 key role in tackling homelessness, often housing homeless households in partnership with local authorities. And a Prosper report links housing undersupply since 2007-08 to slowed UK economic growth and productivity. <\/span>Scottish Federation of Housing Associations<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Prosper<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Crown Commercial Service has released the procurement schedule for its \u00a380bn Construction Works and Associated Services 3 framework, set to run from 2026 to 2034. A \u00a35m Scotland Excel framework will support councils with LHEES development, with 15 firms appointed for four years. Beard Construction is actively seeking new suppliers and subcontractors. Meanwhile, South Kesteven District Council has approved a \u00a37.81m contract with Equans to upgrade 273 council homes. <\/span>Construction Wave<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Scottish Housing News<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>This is Wiltshire<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Lincolnshire World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Developer Landsec is shifting its investment focus from London offices to large-scale housing, aiming to establish a \u00a32bn residential platform by 2030, with projects planned in London and Manchester. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The founder of Welsh civil engineering firm Alun Griffiths (Contractors) is reportedly buying back the company he sold to Tarmac for \u00a336m eight years ago. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

UK-listed construction firms issued five profit warnings in Q1 2025, already equalling the total for all of 2024, highlighting mounting sector pressures. Meanwhile, poor construction standards in new-build homes are adding around \u00a31,000 annually to household energy bills, with scrapped low-carbon rules since 2016 costing UK homeowners an estimated \u00a35bn extra, according to the ECIU. <\/span>The Construction Index<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Guardian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Sadiq Khan has confirmed that new towns of over 10,000 homes could be allowed on London\u2019s green belt as part of plans to increase housing supply. <\/span>Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Developers have received approval to build 300 new homes on the edge of Wisbech as part of an urban extension. Plans have also been proposed for 900 homes in a major extension of Melton Mowbray,and for 350 homes in Staffordshire alongside 66 other planning applications. Additionally, a 310-home development has been revealed for Chester Road in Sandiway. <\/span>Cambridgeshire Live<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Express & Star<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Northwich and Winsford Guardian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 16\/05\/2025 Housing association Beacon Cymru Group has secured a \u00a3115m lending facility from NatWest to support the construction of 500 new homes and enhance the energy efficiency of its existing housing stock. Business Live The Royal Borough of Greenwich led London for the third year with 608 new affordable homes started and 790 […]<\/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-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","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=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7877,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}