{"id":8471,"date":"2025-08-01T12:38:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:38:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:38:02","slug":"friday-01-08-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/friday-01-08-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday: 01\/08\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 01\/08\/2025<\/h6>\n

Settle and Paradigm Housing Group are merging to form SettleParadigm, aiming to be the largest housing association across Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire, with a planned legal merger on 27 October 2025. <\/span>settle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Liverpool City Council and housing association Torus have announced a new partnership aimed at accelerating housebuilding across the city. <\/span>Torus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

VIVID has published its 2024-25 Annual Review, highlighting how customer insight, partnerships, and major investment are driving transformation across southern England. <\/span>VIVID<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lambeth Council plans to sell 20 housing assets, including five vacant homes and 15 non-residential sites, to cover a \u00a340m Housing Revenue Account shortfall. Meanwhile, Cobalt Housing secured \u00a38.4m from Homes England and \u00a31.6m from Liverpool City Region to support new homes in Croxteth\u2019s Stonedale regeneration. <\/span>Brixton Buzz<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Cobalt Housing Limited<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ochil Housing Association has appointed Property One Ltd as its new repairs and maintenance contractor, following a successful tender process. <\/span>Alloa Advertiser<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

QuadReal Property Group has acquired an eight-asset, 3,460-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) portfolio from Apollo-managed funds. At the same time, administrators of collapsed commercial glazing specialist English Architectural Glazing (EAG) revealed that losing a major contract and delayed account filings led to its failure. <\/span>Insider Media<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction News (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Housing Plus Group has been named one of the UK\u2019s Top 50 Biggest Builders, according to a new Inside Housing report, recognising its major role in new home delivery. Simultaneously, John Sisk & Son led Homes England\u2019s contractors, securing over 70% of the agency\u2019s spending on site preparation and infrastructure last year. <\/span>Housing Plus Group<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction News (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

New home completions in England fell during Labour\u2019s first year, while building applications have risen recently. Turner & Townsend\u2019s Summer 2025 report warns a 127% jump in infrastructure orders is causing \u2018connection queue\u2019 issues and power competition as housing rebounds. Meanwhile, the fit-out trade body criticises bloated contracts risking plastering and drywall specialists. Additionally, proposed legislation may ban retentions to combat late payments and support SMEs in construction. <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Place North West<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Manchester City Council has approved plans for 880 homes at Mayfield Park city centre. Meanwhile, Fenland officers recommended approval for 300+ homes near Wisbech despite overdevelopment concerns. Muller submitted outline plans for a 127-home extension west of Audlem, Cheshire East. Developers are also targeting 121 homes on Thurrock\u2019s Stanford-le-Hope green belt. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Cambridgeshire Live<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Place North West<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Echo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 01\/08\/2025 Settle and Paradigm Housing Group are merging to form SettleParadigm, aiming to be the largest housing association across Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire, with a planned legal merger on 27 October 2025. settle Liverpool City Council and housing association Torus have announced a new partnership aimed at accelerating housebuilding across the city. Torus […]<\/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-8471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471","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=8471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8475,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions\/8475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}