{"id":8871,"date":"2025-09-23T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=8871"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:49:14","slug":"tuesday-23-09-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/tuesday-23-09-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday: 23\/09\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 23\/09\/2025<\/h6>\n

The Housing Ombudsman\u2019s 2024-25 review shows rising complaints but some landlord improvements. 71% of complaints were upheld, 120 landlords had high maladministration, and 16 improved. Over 2,000 findings of redress were issued despite a 43% rise in repair complaints. <\/span>Housing Ombudsman Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Onward Homes has boosted its surplus by 14.6% and increased turnover despite pressure from rising repair costs. <\/span>Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Clarion Housing Group has received \u00a326m from Homes England\u2019s \u00a32bn Bridge Funding Programme to accelerate over 20,000 new social homes, supporting the government\u2019s target of 1.5m homes amid 1.3m families on the waiting list. <\/span>Housing Executive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Haringey Council has approved plans to acquire or build 100 new council homes in Highgate and Tottenham. Meanwhile, Leeds is facing a sharp rise in temporary accommodation demand, with 439 families in emergency housing at the end of July, up from just eight in March 2022 and 148 in March 2024. <\/span>Tottenham Independent<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ahead of the budget, London boroughs warned the council the housing crisis could slash \u00a3269m from services over four years and urged a \u00a33 rent convergence to protect homes and fund new social housing. <\/span>London Councils<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Fusion21 has confirmed the consultant winners for its \u00a3175m national Construction Consultancy Services Framework, which will run over four years. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hightown Housing Association will redevelop the Telford Court site in St Albans, replacing the ageing tower block with new homes to maximise social housing. <\/span>St Albans City Council<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Henry Boot has sold its contracting arm in a \u00a34m management buyout to focus on core activities, while Midlands builder Benniman, with profits steady at over \u00a38m despite a slow industrial market, aims to grow turnover as conditions improve. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The government has announced strengthened water efficiency standards aimed at reducing household bills and supporting new housebuilding by easing water supply constraints. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A wave of housing schemes has moved forward across the UK. In Bradford, the 1,000-home City Village project has secured a \u00a314.4m funding boost from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, adding to \u00a330m from Homes England. <\/span>Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

In Brighton, controversial plans for nearly 500 homes on a former gasworks have been approved at appeal, while a judge has upheld approval for a 10,000-home new town in East Herts led by Places for People and Taylor Wimpey, including over 2,500 affordable homes. In Stockport, proposals have been submitted for a 395-home \u2018garden neighbourhood\u2019 on green belt land, with half classed as affordable. Elsewhere, a 190-home scheme in Whitchurch has drawn strong local opposition, and Bargate has lodged plans for up to 180 homes on Winchester\u2019s outskirts. <\/span>The Argus<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Manchester Evening News<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Whitchurch Herald<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Show House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 23\/09\/2025 The Housing Ombudsman\u2019s 2024-25 review shows rising complaints but some landlord improvements. 71% of complaints were upheld, 120 landlords had high maladministration, and 16 improved. Over 2,000 findings of redress were issued despite a 43% rise in repair complaints. Housing Ombudsman Service Onward Homes has boosted its surplus by 14.6% and increased […]<\/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-8871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871","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=8871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8875,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions\/8875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}