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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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
Insurance company Legal and General and Welsh bank Hodge have invested £5.5 million in energy technology and services company Sero Technologies. The equity agreement gives than a stake of just under 30 per cent in the Cardiff-based company that has… Read more »
New social housing, decarbonisation and a second phase of the Building Safety Fund all feature in Welsh Government’s three-year Draft Budget published on Monday. The plans announced by finance minister Rebecca Evans set out spending plans for 2022/23 and indicative… Read more »
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