Press Release 21st April 2010 Lib Dem proposal increasing cost of new homes sheer madness Home building industry body Homes for Scotland, whose membership provides 95% of all homes built for sale in Scotland as well as an increasingly significant proportion of affordable housing, today slammed Liberal Democrat proposals to add VAT to new build [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Housing’
Grant Shapps: We must shout from the rooftops about our radical and progressive policies on housing and planning
By Grant Shapps MP, Shadow Housing MInister Following the launch of the Planning Green Paper on Monday (which Caroline Spelman wrote about on ConHome yesterday) I bumped into a couple of national journalists – from either side of the political spectrum – who were raving about the progressive and radical ideas that had just been [...]
Shelter say Scotland stares into housing abyss with fewest number of affordable homes since 1959
Scotland is staring into a housing abyss with fewer social rented homes than it had 50 years ago, according to a stark report published today (Friday) by leading housing and homelessness charity, Shelter Scotland. The charity’s shocking new report Building Pressure, [1] which lays bare the growing chasm between the number of homes needed and [...]
Plan for Sensible Housing Planning Foundations
There is a great deal of sound sense in this Conservative Party article and it should be rolled out through the UK Mr Shapps, Shadow Housing Minister, makes the following comment which says it all. It is vital that in Government we change the current approach to housing. Instead of telling people what will happen [...]
Conservatives plan to tackle Britain’s social housing crisis
The Conservative Party has today unveiled the Empty Property Rescue Scheme (EPR), a new initiative to tackle Britain’s social housing crisis, which has seen the number of hard pressed families left languishing on social housing waiting lists soar since Labour came to power in 1997. With Gordon Brown’s recession deepening and repossessions rising, a record [...]
NHF announce new mortgage scheme to combat repossession
New mortgage rescue scheme will save thousands from nightmare of repossession say National Housing Federation. A new mortgage rescue scheme which will help thousands of vulnerable people from losing their homes and avoid the nightmare of repossession will be officially launched today. Under the nationwide scheme not-for-profit housing associations will buy homes from people struggling [...]
