{"id":9420,"date":"2025-11-20T12:43:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:43:55","slug":"thursday-20-11-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/thursday-20-11-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: 20\/11\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 20\/11\/2025<\/h6>\n

Quarterly survey data shows social landlords spent \u00a39.3bn on repairs and maintenance in the 12 months to September 2025, up from \u00a38.4bn the previous year, with forecast spend for 2025\/26 rising slightly to \u00a310.4bn to maintain and improve housing assets. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

England\u2019s housing supply in 2024-25 totalled 208,600 net additional dwellings, representing a 6% decrease compared to the previous year. In contrast, affordable housing completions rose to 64,762, up 1% and marking the highest level since 2014-15. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The government has launched the \u00a3950m LAHF 4, its largest to date, giving councils funding to expand temporary accommodation and cut reliance on costly nightly-paid or B&B options. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has launched a \u00a31bn Good Growth Fund, with \u00a3400m set to deliver nearly 3,000 homes, 22,000+ jobs, and 2m sqft of employment space. Homes England\u2019s Impact & Places Partnership will create 2,250+ homes and mobilise \u00a3860m in underinvested areas, while a planned Docklands Light Railway extension to Thamesmead could unlock 25,000 homes and 10,000 jobs. <\/span>Greater Manchester Combined Authority<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The largest housing associations saw a 12% rise in operating surpluses in 2024\/25 despite lower development activity. Gateshead Council\u2019s housing service is reportedly \u201cmoving in the right direction\u201d after earlier repair and complaint concerns, while Guildford councillors will finally access a long-awaited \u00a319m housing repairs report. <\/span>Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Chronicle Live<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Surrey World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Flat Britain highlights the need for more homes in UK cities to ease the housing crisis, improve transport efficiency, and strengthen urban economies. While Clarion Housing Group has called for a new social contract for housing to address threats to quality of life across UK communities. <\/span>Centre for Cities<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Clarion Housing Group<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Winvic has won a \u00a3130m contract to deliver Oasis, a 456-home build-to-rent scheme on Kent Street, Birmingham, funded by Heim Global Investor and developed by McLaren Living. In addition, Mellior will build a 200-home waterfront neighbourhood in Salford after Bentry Capital acquired the Irwell Gardens site for \u00a312m. <\/span>The Construction Index<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Belfast-based Totalmobile will help L&Q modernise its \u00a360m housing repairs service across 250,000 homes using its Field First platform. Grainger, has doubled profits from property valuations and rental income, aiming for 30% growth in the coming years. <\/span>News Letter<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

As of October 2025, 5,570 residential buildings over 11 metres in England have unsafe cladding, up 12 since September, with remediation progress monitored. Meanwhile, the Great British Insulation Scheme has delivered 107,900 energy efficiency measures across 82,200 households up to September 2025. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Scottish Government has announced a one-year delay to the Scottish Building Safety Levy and confirmed it will not introduce a Heat in Buildings Bill in the current parliamentary session, citing delays to the UK Government\u2019s Warm Homes Plan and uncertainty over energy costs. <\/span>Scottish Housing News<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Scottish Government<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Councillors approved 369 homes on a former hospital site, half affordable. A 450-home Green Belt scheme near Bristol and Yate has been submitted. Persimmon is consulting on a 350-home scheme near a Cornish town. Bloor\u2019s 300-home Littleborough development awaits a decision, while Plymouth Civic Centre is set for conversion into 140 flats. <\/span>Enfield Dispatch<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Bristol Live<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Packet<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Place North West<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 20\/11\/2025 Quarterly survey data shows social landlords spent \u00a39.3bn on repairs and maintenance in the 12 months to September 2025, up from \u00a38.4bn the previous year, with forecast spend for 2025\/26 rising slightly to \u00a310.4bn to maintain and improve housing assets. GOV.UK England\u2019s housing supply in 2024-25 totalled 208,600 net additional dwellings, representing […]<\/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-9420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420","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=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9424,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}