{"id":8128,"date":"2025-06-19T12:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:34:06","slug":"thursday-19-06-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/thursday-19-06-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: 19\/06\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 19\/06\/2025<\/h6>\n

The Housing Ombudsman\u2019s latest report highlights serious failings in complaint handling by several landlords in cases involving leaseholders. It names A2Dominion Group, Arun Council, Haringey, Lambeth, L&Q, Origin Housing, Peabody, Southern Housing, and Southwark Council, urging greater accountability and improved service. <\/span>Housing Ombudsman Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The House of Lords has launched an inquiry into complaints that the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is causing delays to construction projects. <\/span>Parliament.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Haringey Council has announced a \u00a3600m investment over the next decade to upgrade its 20,000 council homes, aiming to improve living standards and support its net zero targets. <\/span>Haringey London Borough<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ealing Council has bought 180 homes at the Green Quarter in Southall from Berkeley Homes to meet local housing needs. In Lambeth, the High Court backed the council\u2019s move to reclaim over 160 former council homes for homeless families. Wakefield Council is closing Bridge Homes after 11 years due to tough market conditions, while Barnet Council is pushing for improvements amid concerns over delays in its housing repairs service. <\/span>Ealing.News<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Love Lambeth<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Wakefield Express<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Barnet Borough Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The government has expanded the Warm Home Discount, with 6m households, 2.7m more than before, set to receive \u00a3150 off their energy bills this winter to ease rising living costs. New rules will also scrap the local connection requirement for young care leavers and domestic abuse survivors, improving access to social housing and fulfilling a key government pledge. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Bolton Council is seeking a development partner for a major mixed-use scheme featuring homes, offices, and commercial space, aimed at revitalising the town centre. <\/span>Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

CA Group reported a 31% fall in pre-tax profit to \u00a37.8m for the year ending September 2024, citing market uncertainty. <\/span>Construction News (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

By June 2025, 80,600 insulation measures were installed in 63,400 homes under the Great British Insulation Scheme. Separately, 4.2m measures reached 2.5m homes through the ECO scheme. A Cambridge report warns UK housing generates 12% of emissions, urging stronger backing for large-scale retrofitting. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>CISL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Activity in the UK roofing sector is showing signs of slowing, with 36% of contractors reporting increased workloads in spring 2025 compared to the same time last year – a drop from 48% in Q4 2024. <\/span>NFRC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Controversial plans for 400 homes in Ringwood have been approved again despite objections. In Herne Bay, 296 homes were approved as part of the 800-home Strode Farm scheme. Lancashire\u2019s 1,816-home colliery site redevelopment is progressing, Hull has a new application for 418 homes, the first phase of 250 homes has been unveiled at Devon\u2019s former Yelland Power Station, and Stockport Council is reviewing plans for 125 homes with green space. <\/span>Daily Echo<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Kent Online<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Hull Live<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Devon Live<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Manchester Evening News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 19\/06\/2025 The Housing Ombudsman\u2019s latest report highlights serious failings in complaint handling by several landlords in cases involving leaseholders. It names A2Dominion Group, Arun Council, Haringey, Lambeth, L&Q, Origin Housing, Peabody, Southern Housing, and Southwark Council, urging greater accountability and improved service. Housing Ombudsman Service The House of Lords has launched an inquiry […]<\/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-8128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128","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=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8133,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions\/8133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}