{"id":8644,"date":"2025-08-21T12:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:27:38","slug":"thursday-21-08-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/thursday-21-08-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: 21\/08\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 21\/08\/2025<\/h6>\n

Platform Housing Group reported social housing rental income growth of 6.6% to \u00a378.7m for the quarter to June 2025, up from \u00a373.8m in June 2024. Stonewater reported a \u00a335m rise in turnover in its latest financial results, with income reaching \u00a3306m for the year to 31 March 2025, up from \u00a3271m in 2024. <\/span>Platform Housing Group<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

South Tyneside Council has been praised for delivering \u201cincredibly high\u201d housing standards and reducing empty property numbers after bringing services back in-house last November, previously managed by its ALMO, South Tyneside Homes. <\/span>Shields Gazette<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Over 2,036,848 council homes have been sold to tenants under the Right to Buy scheme up to 31 March 2025. However, new analysis shows that England sold eight times more council homes than it built last year, prompting renewed calls for councils to be given first refusal on ex-council homes returning to the market. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Guardian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Market testing has started for the \u00a33bn third-generation Constructing West Midlands framework, led by Acivico and Birmingham, Solihull, and Sandwell councils, covering all building works, including new builds, extensions, repairs, M&E, infrastructure, and design services. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

United Living is exiting its \u00a3136m-turnover new-build homes business, taking a \u00a322m hit after a strategic review by owners Apollo Global Management. Meanwhile, London developer Mount Anvil reported strong results, with its in-house contracting arm nearly doubling turnover to \u00a3228m over the latest 15-month reporting period. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Since its launch, the Great British Insulation Scheme (GBIS) has delivered 90,900 measures across 71,000 households up to the end of June 2025. Meanwhile, as of July 2025, 5,214 residential buildings 11 metres and above have been identified with unsafe cladding, 24 more than the previous month, with remediation progress being monitored. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The NHBC warns the Labour Government\u2019s 1.5m-home target by 2029 requires raising annual builds from 200,000 to 300,000, but at the current pace only 600,000 are expected. It urges industry collaboration, planning reforms, and investment to boost output while maintaining quality. <\/span>NHBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hadley Property Group plans to redevelop Brentford\u2019s former GSK HQ into 2,300 homes. Bristol awaits a decision on a 400-home canalside scheme with a new school. Bloor Homes proposes 350 homes in Dorridge, while Westhampnett has plans for 265 homes and an 80-bed care home. Over 100 homes are also proposed in Essex despite farmland impact concerns. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Bristol Live<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Birmingham Live<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Sussex World<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Essex Live<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 21\/08\/2025 Platform Housing Group reported social housing rental income growth of 6.6% to \u00a378.7m for the quarter to June 2025, up from \u00a373.8m in June 2024. Stonewater reported a \u00a335m rise in turnover in its latest financial results, with income reaching \u00a3306m for the year to 31 March 2025, up from \u00a3271m in […]<\/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-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","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=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8648,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions\/8648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}