Sentences with phrase «council house scheme»

The Conservatives announced plans — the extension of an existing programme — to boost the «right to buy» council house scheme introduced under Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s.

Not exact matches

The council will be involved as an official partner, along with housing association Liverpool Mutual Homes, which will build new homes as part of the overall regeneration scheme.

Blue collar voters were crucial to Margaret Thatcher's election victories in the 1980s, particularly after the right to buy scheme, which allowed working class voters to buy their council houses.

«Whilst we welcome the government's commitment to tackle our housing crisis, today's announcement falls far short of the quarter of a million new homes we need each year just to meet demand... We are concerned that schemes to help first - time buyers and council tenants will simply encourage people to overextend themselves, while doing nothing to address the sky - high cost of housing.»

For instance it proposes that councils should give those leaving the armed forces in terms of housing allocation and schemes for shared ownership to get on the housing ladder.

Even more worrying is the connected deal Capco struck with Hammersmith and Fulham for two council housing estates in the Earl's Court scheme, a deeply unpopular and flawed scheme.

Under the scheme tenants who have been in a council house over five years receive a 35 % discount, with an additional one per cent for each added year up to a maximum of # 75,000.

David Cameron announced increased discounts to encourage council tenants to buy their homes, alongside a «build now, pay later» scheme to encourage developers to build on government land and only pay for it once a house is sold.

The Conservatives have expressed more scepticism that the country can build its way out of a housing crisis, while individual local councils have proved resistant to many housing schemes.

This will be hugely welcomed by councils as local authority housing stock has been depleted by the right - to - buy scheme.

Six Welsh Councils, who are operating mortgage guarantee schemes for first time home buyers, have effectively pulled the plug on any future assistance leaving those trying to get onto the housing ladder high and dry, an Assembly Member has discovered.

Oral Questions - Assisting families facing homelessness as a result of housing benefit changes due in April - Baroness Turner of Camden; Face - to - face careers guidance for all young people in schools - Baroness Jones of Whitchurch; Effects of local council tax support schemes on poverty - Lord McKenzie of Luton; Representations received from the public on the negotiations for the new EU budget perspective period to 2020 - Lord Dykes

Sooner or later they will end up buying houses under help to buy — a scheme underwritten by indiginous tax payers that can't even get a council house.

A scheme of social housing in Dublin has become the first to achieve the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC)'s Home Performance Index (HPI) label.

Not content with being Ireland's largest certified passive house scheme, Silken Park is also the first scheme by a commercial house builder to achieve the Irish Green Building Council's new Home Performance Index sustainability certification.

A development of rapidly built, affordable, all electric passive houses set up to adapt easily to net zero energy, the scheme is also the first by a private developer to meet the Irish Green Building Council's promising new Home Performance Index sustainability certification scheme.

Recent highlights include acting for Cooper Estates Strategic Land in a High Court appeal against Wokingham Borough Council concerning refused planning permission for a major housing development, and advising Telereal Services on a range of matters with regards to a residential unit scheme in Ealing.

In R (on the application of Aweys) v Birmingham City Council and other applications [2007] EWHC 52 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 230 (Jan) the Court of Appeal dismissed the authority's appeal and held that, upon finding a homeless person to be unintentionally homeless, eligible and in priority need, the «main housing duty» under HA 1996, s 193 (2) arose immediately and that the discharge of this duty could not be met by leaving the applicants in their existing homes: «the homeless at home», which the authority considered no longer reasonable for them to occupy, while waiting for an offer of permanent accommodation under the allocation scheme.

Other work includes advising Westminster City Council on the development and letting agreements for University Technical College, which included assisting in negotiations with Network Rail; advising the Borough of Haringey on the creation of a borough - wide housing investment vehicle with a private sector partner; and assisting the Homes and Communities Agency with various matters including the procurement of a development matter for the regeneration of a hospital, and assisting with the provision of Builders Finance Fund grant funding for recipients of various housing - led schemes.

A large percentage of council housing stock has been sold under the right to buy scheme, particularly in high value areas like Kensington and Chelsea, leaving the council short on housing stock with long waiting lists for council housing.