Savills assesses the impact of a new rent settlement

Savills has published research assessing the impact of increasing rents for general needs social housing by CPI +1% for the next 10 years.  It concludes: “By the end of a 10-year rent settlement in 2036, general needs rents would still be at a greater discount...

Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 report published

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry published its second and final report on 4 September.  The report is 7 volumes and 1,700 pages and sums up the Inquiry’s findings as follows: “We conclude that the fire at Grenfell Tower was the culmination of decades of...

Government drops plans to reform social housing allocations

In January the Government consulted on plans to reform the rules for allocating council housing, as reported in ARCH Bulletin 229.  It proposed to reform council housing allocations policy by restricting allocations to applicants with a UK connection, a minimum...

Angela Rayner announces planning and housing reforms

In a statement to the House of Commons on 30 July, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced plans to reform national planning policy and a “council house revolution”, including the major reform of the Right to Buy scheme.  Under the new...