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Morning Briefing: sector reacts to a social housing scheme winning Stirling Prize for the first time

News09.10.1910.30 AM by Rhiannon Curry

A social housing scheme has won the Stirling Prize for the first time, and all the rest of today’s news from the housing sector

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Goldsmith Street in Norwich, the winner of the Stirling Prize
Goldsmith Street in Norwich, the winner of the Stirling Prize
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Morning briefing: Stirling Prize won by a social housing scheme for the first time #ukhousing

In the news

An eco-friendly, high-density social housing scheme in Norwich has been awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize.

The estate, called Goldsmith Street, is made up of almost 100 ultra low-energy homes for Norwich City Council, the BBC reports.

A number of leading figures from the social housing and architectural sectors have been responded to the news:

Hundreds of council housing residents in west London are celebrating after councillors agreed to take forward compulsory purchase order plans that could halt one one of the largest luxury developments in Europe.

The West Kensington and Gibbs Green council estates are home to more than 2,000 people, but have been part of redevelopment plans for the wider Earl’s Court area for more than a decade. The Guardian has more.

Meanwhile, the Clydebank Post has this report on homelessness in Glasgow, which found that some people are being forced to wait up to five years to be rehoused by the city council, with service users describing the system as “shambolic”.

People presenting as homeless within the city have faced periods of as much as 1,800 days without a home over the past five years, it said.

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Plans for more than 3,000 homes across Sussex have been given outline planning permission.

Homes England took over the delivery of the 200 acre project – known as the Northern Arc – last year and work on the first phase is expected to begin in 2020/21, The Argus reports.

Elsewh ere, the first residents of a new 6,000-home new town in Hampshire could move in by 2021, developers have said.

Critics of Welborne, north of the M27, have raised concerns about roads and facilities not being ready in time. But Seán Woodward, leader of Fareham Borough Council, insisted that the infrastructure would be “identified, costed and funded”, the BBC reports.

The Express has a story that recipients of Universal Credit who live in social housing may be able to get help for energy-saving improvements to their home this winter.

In St Helens, homeowners on a new estate are furious after housing developers photoshopped roads that haven’t been completed for 10 years, the Liverpool Echo reports.

Residents living in Waterside Village claim they have been forgotten about by Morris Homes, which built almost 500 houses before leaving the site without tarmacking the streets.

Private rental housing investor Sigma has bought two development sites in Havering and Barking – its first deals in London – as it ramps up activity over the coming year, the Construction Enquirer reports.

Bridgend Council has said around 7,500 homes will need to be built in the county over the coming years to meet the predicted housing demand, Wales Online writes.

London mayor Sadiq Khan has written in City AM about his determination to “get London building homes that Londoners can actually afford, rather than luxury apartments that too often remain empty”.

On social media

Housing professionals and tenants across the country marked #HousingDay on Twitter yesterday – here are just some of the best tweets.

And more Stirling Prize tweets:

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