{"id":9611,"date":"2025-12-11T12:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/?p=9611"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:56:20","slug":"thursday-11-12-2025-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/daily-news\/thursday-11-12-2025-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: 11\/12\/2025 \/ News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daily News: 11\/12\/2025<\/h6>\n

Homes England has published a new strategic plan aimed at accelerating the delivery of high-quality, safe, and sustainable homes, transforming the housing market, supporting housing-led regeneration, and driving innovation across the country. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The government has unveiled a national plan to halve rough sleeping and prevent homelessness, backed by \u00a33.5bn in investment. The strategy was shaped by people with lived experience of homelessness and the Inter-ministerial Group on Homelessness. <\/span>GOV.UK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Severe Maladministration report highlights the human impact of delayed repairs-faulty doors, broken showers, and hazards like collapsing ceilings and live wires. Cases under Awaab\u2019s Law stress the need for person-focused services, involving landlords such as A2Dominion, Clarion, L&Q, Orbit, and several councils. <\/span>Housing Ombudsman Service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

S&P Global Ratings has revised its outlook on Aster Group Ltd from stable to negative while affirming the group\u2019s \u2018A\u2019 long-term and \u2018A-1\u2019 short-term issuer credit ratings. <\/span>S&P Global<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A recent tenant survey shows Ayrshire Housing outperforming the Scottish average across all customer satisfaction indicators. Meanwhile, Devon County Council has approved a wide-ranging housing plan to tackle the local affordability crisis. In Northumberland, around 7,000 people with little chance of securing a council home are to be removed from the housing waiting list. <\/span>Ayrshire Housing<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Devon County Council<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Hexham Courant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The City of London is exploring outside investment to fund housing projects, aiming to address \u00a3205m of estate disrepair and bring buildings up to fire and electrical safety standards. Meanwhile, Ballymore and Slovakian developer Penta Real Estate have partnered to deliver over 680 new homes across two London sites. <\/span>City A.M.<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Construction Index<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Peterborough-based electrical contractor EML has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators. Project Four Building Safety Experts reported a 53.6% revenue rise to \u00a34.35m, while Roger Bullivant boosted pre-tax profits by a third following an overhead restructure despite revenues falling 5% to \u00a382.4m. <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Liverpool Business News<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Construction News (register)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB UK) reports that last month\u2019s budget statement has had little impact on construction industry tender price forecasts. <\/span>The Construction Index<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A House of Lords Committee has warned that delays in the Building Safety Regulator\u2019s approval processes are leaving residents waiting for cladding remediation and increasing costs for leaseholders. Meanwhile, the UKGBC Trends Report highlights how construction firms are focusing on resilience in the built environment heading into 2026. <\/span>Parliament.UK<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>PBC Today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Islington Council approved 1,116 homes at New Barnsbury Estate. Ipswich greenlit 1,000 homes despite education disputes, and Corringham got approval for 300 homes on green belt land. Glasgow will build 100+ homes on vacant land. York Central\u2019s \u00a32bn regeneration advances with 999 homes, an innovation hub, retail, leisure, a hotel, and public spaces. Plans for 179 homes and a community centre faced 200+ objections. <\/span>Housing Today (register)<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Suffolk News<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Thurrock Gazette<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Glasgow Times<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Construction Enquirer<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daily News: 11\/12\/2025 Homes England has published a new strategic plan aimed at accelerating the delivery of high-quality, safe, and sustainable homes, transforming the housing market, supporting housing-led regeneration, and driving innovation across the country. GOV.UK The government has unveiled a national plan to halve rough sleeping and prevent homelessness, backed by \u00a33.5bn in investment. […]<\/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-9611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611","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=9611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9616,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611\/revisions\/9616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locarla.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}