{"id":8508,"date":"2025-08-07T12:40:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=8508"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:40:53","slug":"thursday-07-08-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/thursday-07-08-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: 07\/08\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 07\/08\/2025<\/h6>\n

Golding Homes has secured a five-year extension of its \u00a3100m revolving credit facility with Lloyds Bank, strengthening its financial capacity to support housing delivery and development plans. <\/span>Housing Digital<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

New Forest District Council has reported an 84% satisfaction rate among its tenants, reflecting positively on its housing services and resident engagement efforts. Meanwhile, Hull City Council approved a new Repairs and Maintenance Policy to improve clarity and accountability for tenants and the council. <\/span>New Forest District Council<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Hull City Council<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Vistry Group has expanded its Western Gate community in Harpole, Northamptonshire, by 233 homes, bringing the total at Norwood Farm to 1,070 out of a planned 1,900, and has also secured its first partnership with Zen Housing. <\/span>Vistry Group Plc<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Mears Group posted a 5% rise in pre-tax profit to \u00a332m, attributed to growth in its core maintenance business despite a dip in overall revenue. Cheetham Hill Construction Ltd has transitioned to an employee-owned business model, becoming the latest contractor to do so. McLaren Construction topped the contract league last month after signing a \u00a3300m estate rebuild project in central London at Ebury Estate. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A further \u00a320m will be used to accelerate cladding remediation efforts and improve building safety in Scotland, as announced by housing secretary M\u00e0iri McAllan. <\/span>Scottish Housing News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Record installations of solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps were reported across UK homes and buildings in the first half of 2025. Meanwhile, up to 75% of high-rise buildings have failed to meet Building Safety Regulator (BSR) standards. Of the 1,454 safety cases submitted by owners of high-risk residential buildings, only 170 have been reviewed so far, with 125 deemed non-compliant. <\/span>ITV News<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>PBC Today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The headline net balance for total construction workloads edged down slightly to -3% in Q2 2025, from -1% in the previous quarter. Despite this marginal decline, the latest feedback reflects a broadly stable, though subdued, market. <\/span>RICS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Plans for 390 homes and a 70-bed care home in Hemel Hempstead were approved on appeal. Meanwhile, 300 homes on the edge of Wisbech were approved despite concerns over affordable housing and lack of contributions for local services. Permission is sought for 263 homes near Elgin. West Oxfordshire plans 2,200 homes at Salt Cross garden village after net zero approval. A 2,150-home scheme at Godley Green nears final approval. Slough\u2019s Stoke Wharf will now have 170 homes instead of 312 after the sale to Bellway. The final 120-home phase near Fareham includes new self-build plots. <\/span>Watford Observer<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Cambridgeshire Live<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Northern Scot<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Manchester Evening News<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>The News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 07\/08\/2025 Golding Homes has secured a five-year extension of its \u00a3100m revolving credit facility with Lloyds Bank, strengthening its financial capacity to support housing delivery and development plans. Housing Digital New Forest District Council has reported an 84% satisfaction rate among its tenants, reflecting positively on its housing services and resident engagement efforts. […]<\/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-8508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8508","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=8508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8512,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8508\/revisions\/8512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}