Denham halts £4.5bn regeneration scheme

Mayor outlines plan for 16,000 home regeneration

The mayor of London has published a planning framework for an area of south London that could eventually hold 16,000 new homes.

Riot-hit area's regeneration plans to be revealed

Details of a multi-million pound regeneration scheme which promises around 200 new homes in a riot-hit area are expected to be revealed next week.

Going Dutch

Beds for homeless boosted with £37m funding

Thirty housing associations, councils and other providers will deliver around 1,200 new bed spaces for homeless people with £37.5 million of funding.

Council body calls for support from mayor

Councils in London have called on the mayor of London to campaign for the scrapping of borrowing limits under the new self-financing system of finance for local authorities.

The stamp of approval

Councils are expected to allow development wherever possible

Digital age

In the last of this week’s Focus pieces on digital inclusion we take a look at work helping older people get online

A charitable case for relief

Exemptions from CIL are available but it’s advisable to check the details, says Mark Burrows, associate at Penningtons Solicitors

Pipe dream

A new law means social landlords will no longer be responsible for repairing certain pipework but there are exceptions

Not a sticking plaster

Efforts to tackle anti-social behaviour can seem like fire fighting. It’s expensive to take a more comprehensive and long-term approach by working with a single family to get to the root of their problems. But, as Tony Powell, executive director of neighbourhoods at New Charter Housing Trust, explains, the effect can be transformative.