Local authorities will be able to charge 300 per cent council tax premiums on second homes and apply new tax rules for holiday lets under Welsh Government plans to ensure people can find an affordable home in the place they… Read more »
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Call for new law to boost community-led housing
Wales Co-operative Centre is calling for a series of reforms including new legislation to help community groups deliver perpetually affordable housing in their local areas. The proposed changes would give community organisations a statutory first right of refusal over assets… Read more »
Final Budget includes extra £18m for housing alongside cost of living package
The Welsh Government’s final Budget for 2022/23 includes an extra £18 million for two housing schemes as well as the £330 million cost of living package revealed two weeks ago. Details published today (March 1) include an additional £10 million… Read more »
New officer to work with communities on Dwyfor affordable housing pilot
Grŵp Cynefin is recruiting a senior community housing officer as part of its role in the Welsh Government’s affordable housing pilot in Dwyfor looking for solutions to Gwynedd’s housing crisis. The officer will gather information on local housing needs and,… Read more »
Levelling up needs clearing up
Matt Dicks gives a Welsh perspective on the UK Government’s long-awaited Levelling Up White Paper. Levelling up is the strategy upon which Boris Johnson built his 2019 election victory. It was, and remains, the subtext to ‘taking back control’ through… Read more »
Caerphilly completes WHQS
Caerphilly Council has announced the completion of its Welsh Housing Quality Standard (WHQS) improvement programme. This is largest single investment ever made into the council’s housing stock, with over £260 million spent on improvements to tenants’ homes and communities. The… Read more »
Minister calls on Westminster to replace ‘missing £1 billion’
Wales will be almost £1 billion worse off by 2024 as a result of the UK Government’s failure to honour its commitment to match European funding in full after Breixt, says economy minister Vaughan Gething. The Leave campaign promised during… Read more »
Pobl and Lovell to build Chartist Garden Village
Pobl Group has chosen Lovell as its preferred partner to deliver a design and build scheme for 123 new homes on the former Caerphilly County Borough Council office site in Pontllanfraith. The scheme includes a mix of 40 one-, two-, three-… Read more »
Look out for the new WHQ
Here’s a sneak preview of the new issue of Welsh Housing Quarterly that will be published and online this week. The theme for our Winter 2022 issue is supply and we have good news and bad news for affordable housing…. Read more »
Key change in housing law set for July 15
Climate change minister Julie James says that the way we rent homes in Wales will become ‘simpler and more transparent’ when key legal changes are implemented in July. The minister announced her intention to implement the Renting Homes (Wales) Act… Read more »