{"id":9143,"date":"2025-10-28T12:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:33:37","slug":"tuesday-28-10-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/tuesday-28-10-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday: 28\/10\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 28\/10\/2025<\/h6>\n

Settle Group and Paradigm Housing Group have completed their merger to form SettleParadigm, operating mainly in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire. The new group becomes the region\u2019s largest, owning nearly 27,000 homes. <\/span>Paradigm Housing Group Ltd.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

As of March 2025, Registered providers (RPs) own 4.5m units of social housing, with private registered providers (PRPs) holding 2.9m units compared to 1.6m units owned by LARPs. Local authority registered providers (LARPs) reported owning 1,567,512 units, including low-cost rental and low-cost home ownership properties. Private registered providers of social housing (PRPs) reported owning 3,284,294 units, which include both social and non-social tenures. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Housing Ombudsman\u2019s October 2025 report highlights landlord failures to address damp and mould, with cases including wet carpets, mushrooms on walls, and water damage, involving landlords such as A2Dominion, Clarion, L&Q, Orbit, Places for People, Sanctuary, and several councils. Supporting this, Health Equals research shows over 1 in 4 people in the UK, around 15m, live in homes with health-harming issues like damp, mould, or cold. <\/span>Housing Ombudsman Service<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Health Equals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Renters\u2019 Rights Act has officially become law after receiving Royal Assent, marking a historic step towards securing a fairer future for 11m private renters across England. Meanwhile, Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has announced a series of funding changes aimed at increasing the delivery of new social homes across Northern Ireland. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Department for Communities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Homes England has launched its search for a development partner for Newcastle\u2019s Forth Yards scheme, marking a major step forward in delivering thousands of new homes on one of the city\u2019s largest development sites. <\/span>The Construction Index<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

CCG\u2019s in-house Asset Management team is progressing well with kitchen and bathroom upgrades in Whiteinch and Scotstoun, West Glasgow. Ashe Group saw a 53% rise in pre-tax profit and 22% turnover growth to \u00a3105.8m in 2024, driven by bidding selectivity and economies of scale, while Bear Scotland maintenance workers in Inverness secured union recognition and pay rises up to 7.25% after threatened strike action. <\/span>Scottish Housing News<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction News (register)<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Construction Products Association has downgraded its autumn forecasts, with total construction output now expected to grow 1.1% in 2025 and 2.8% in 2026, down from earlier projections of 1.9% and 3.7%, due to a slow summer and anticipated tax rises. <\/span>The Construction Index<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The RCT planning committee has approved 543 homes at Llanilid, raising the total to 1,850. Miller Homes got approval for 106 homes at Hinchley Road, Charlestown. Persimmon Homes is consulting on 550 homes in Wadebridge, while up to 420 homes are proposed near Colburn, North Yorkshire. Nearly 300 homes are planned in Leicestershire, and a 265-home scheme in Herefordshire has faced hundreds of objections. <\/span>Wales Online<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>TheBusinessDesk.com<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Holsworthy Post<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Darlington & Stockton Times<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Leicestershire Live<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Gloucestershire Live<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 28\/10\/2025 Settle Group and Paradigm Housing Group have completed their merger to form SettleParadigm, operating mainly in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire. The new group becomes the region\u2019s largest, owning nearly 27,000 homes. Paradigm Housing Group Ltd. As of March 2025, Registered providers (RPs) own 4.5m units of social housing, with private registered providers […]<\/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-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","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=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9147,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions\/9147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}