The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced support of £4.3m for the Ragged School Museum in Tower Hamlets. National Lottery money will pay for extensive refurbishment work to the site which is made up of a group of three canal warehouses. The project… Continue Reading →

A housing association has been prosecuted after allowing renovations to take place that put residents at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. Dumfries Sheriff Court heard that Dumfries & Galloway Housing Partnership Limited, Scotland’s second largest registered social landlord, had allowed… Continue Reading →

Planning permission has been granted for Bromley Hall School in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in order to meet the Borough’s growing demand for primary school places. The proposal suggests a refurbishment and extension of the original Grade II… Continue Reading →

A property management company has been fined after a resident of Marsden House in Bolton died after falling down a lift shaft. Bolton Crown Court heard how 29 year old Craig Jones and a friend were trapped in a lift and unable to raise the alarm. They… Continue Reading →

The garden villages have the potential to deliver more than 48,000 homes.  The first ever garden villages, which have the potential to deliver more than 48,000 homes across England, have been given government backing. In an expansion of the existing… Continue Reading →

One of the UK’s leading housing and support consultancies has launched a completely new approach to reducing demand for repairs – one of the biggest expenditures faced by social housing landlords – to alleviate pressures and reduce costs. East London… Continue Reading →

Firestone’s warm roof system has been specified for Wigston Academy in Leicestershire as part of a two year campus improvement programme by Wigston Academies Trust. Firestone’s technical team worked closely with the project’s architects, GSS Architecture in Kettering, to develop… Continue Reading →

An innovative training scheme aimed at solving the skills shortage and getting hard to reach candidates into the construction industry has been recognised as the trade’s best learning and development initiative at the Construction Investing in Talent Awards 2016. The… Continue Reading →