{"id":8372,"date":"2025-07-21T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:47:20","slug":"monday-21-07-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/monday-21-07-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday: 21\/07\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 21\/07\/2025<\/h6>\n

NatWest has launched a \u00a3500m social loan to help housing associations build social rent homes across the UK, featuring no arrangement fees and discounted interest margins. Separately, Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) secured a \u00a3127.5m funding package from NatWest, comprising an \u00a387.5m loan and a \u00a340m revolving credit facility, to support social housing in south Manchester.\u00a0NatWest Group<\/a>,\u00a0Property Week (register)<\/a><\/p>\n

Horsham District Council plans to spend \u00a35m from its \u00a314m Section 106 fund to purchase ten homes for larger families currently on the housing waiting list. Sussex World<\/a><\/p>\n

The Northern Housing Consortium has launched a housing regeneration inquiry, citing the North’s disproportionate share of poor-quality homes. It follows a previous call for \u00a31.4bn in government support. Housing Today (register)<\/a><\/p>\n

The Guinness Partnership has launched a \u00a3250m remediation framework to accelerate building safety upgrades across residential and mixed-use developments nationwide.\u00a0Construction Enquirer<\/a><\/p>\n

Cottsway Housing has exchanged contracts with Cala Homes to deliver 34 new affordable homes near Chipping Norton in West Oxfordshire. Meanwhile, Brighton & Hove City Council has announced plans to demolish eight large panel system tower blocks due to structural concerns.\u00a0Housing Digital<\/a>,\u00a0The Construction Index<\/a><\/p>\n

Keltbray Group reported another loss-making year with pre-tax losses of \u00a38.1m, according to its latest accounts. In parallel, failings in solid wall insulation under ECO4 and GBIS have triggered a retrofit review, with the Retrofit System Reform Advisory Panel set up to improve oversight and standards.\u00a0The Construction Index<\/a>,\u00a0Construction Enquirer<\/a><\/p>\n

Build-to-rent investment fell 22% year-on-year in H1 2025 to \u00a32.2bn, JLL reports, reflecting market shifts and changing focus between multifamily and single-family sectors.\u00a0Housing Today (register)<\/a><\/p>\n

Lewisham Council has increased its housing target by 10%, aiming to deliver more than 30,000 homes by 2040 in response to underperformance by developers.\u00a0Housing Today (Register)<\/a><\/p>\n

Mid Sussex has approved Wates\u2019 350-home plan in Crawley Down, while Reigate and Banstead gave the green light to 300 homes in Reigate. Sunderland\u2019s Riverside project advanced with a planning bid for up to 600 homes at Sheepfolds. In Corringham, plans for 412 homes are nearing submission. Revised proposals for 361 homes in Bridgwater could see work begin within a year, and a 350-home scheme in Leeds is set for approval.\u00a0Show House<\/a>,\u00a0BBC<\/a>,\u00a0The Construction Index<\/a>,\u00a0Thurrock Nub News<\/a>,\u00a0Somerset Live<\/a>, and\u00a0Yorkshire Post<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 21\/07\/2025 NatWest has launched a \u00a3500m social loan to help housing associations build social rent homes across the UK, featuring no arrangement fees and discounted interest margins. Separately, Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) secured a \u00a3127.5m funding package from NatWest, comprising an \u00a387.5m loan and a \u00a340m revolving credit facility, to support social […]<\/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-8372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372","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=8372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8377,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions\/8377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}