Guy Henderson Local Democracy Reporting Service Google Plans have been submitted for the former police station in Heavitree Road, Exeter Plans have been submitted to knock down a former Devon police station to build more than 800 homes for university students and local people. The plans for Exeter’s former police station, on Heavitree Road, would...
BBC The government hopes its new Planning and Infrastructure bill will speed up house-building A new bill which the government says aims to speed up housebuilding has been described as “catastrophic for wildlife” by a nature charity. Devon Wildlife Trust’s chief executive Nick Bruce-White has said it will give developers an open door to pay...
John Ayres BBC News, South West BBC The Crossways shopping centre before it was demolished in April 2023 An old shopping centre site in Paignton could become social housing to provide extra care apartments. New plans by Torbay Council said 91 apartments at the old Crossways shopping centre and a new Day Centre to replace...
HEADLINES 300-bed “co-living” blocks to trump social housing vision for Mary Arches car parks More people could be crammed into Eutopia Homes complex than current car parking spaces after Exeter City Council commits to “homes for the people of Exeter” on Liveable Exeter North Gate site. Read more. Exeter City Council renews Public Spaces Protection...
Eutopia Homes says it “prides itself on providing unique homes” but apparently doesn’t feel the same way about consulting the public on its plans to build them. In early May it began a pre-application consultation on its proposals to replace Mary Arches car parks with a pair of linked six-storey blocks containing 309 “co-living” units...
Daniel Logan & Niall Glynn BBC News NI Reuters 14 families have also been provided with emergency accommodation during the disorder. NIHE chief executive Grainia Long says she expects to see the number of those seeking help to rise. On Thursday night, a family with three young children was moved from a house at Mount...
Kate Whannel Political reporter Spending Review: Where key money is being spent… in 99 seconds Rachel Reeves has announced an extra £29bn per year for the NHS in England, along with funding boosts for defence and housing, as she set out the government’s spending plans until the end of the decade. The chancellor also promised...
Danielle has moved four times in the last nine months with her three children. They became homeless after receiving a section 21 “no fault” eviction order from their landlord, and since then their local council has placed them in a shared house, as well as in hotel rooms. Despite the government’s promises to fund more...
In a Facebook post, the owner of the store said that they “feel a profound sense of loss” over the destruction of the artefacts. Read full article at source...
Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Getty Images Complaints about substandard living conditions in social housing are now more than five times higher than they were five years ago, a new report says Complaints about substandard living conditions in social housing in England are more than five times higher than five years ago, according to the housing...
Anna Varle BBC South West health correspondent BBC Experts say vulnerable women need to be in female-only accommodation A charity working with victims of sexual violence is calling for action to stop vulnerable women being housed in emergency accommodation with men. Devon Rape Crisis & Sexual Abuse Services said it was “deeply concerned” by reports...
SPECIAL REPORT Campaigners compel Exeter City Council to reconsider Northbrook pool closure with 2,250-strong resident petition Exeter City Council is under pressure to reconsider its plan to close Northbrook Swimming Pool after community campaigners triggered a full council debate on the closure by raising a petition imploring it to keep the pool open that was...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter BBC The Seabury Hotel in Torquay is being demolished to make way for social housing A derelict hotel in a seaside resort is being demolished, with social housing to be built in its place. Torbay Council agreed to borrow up to £20m to fund the Hotels to Homes project....
Mid Devon District Council has been charging thousands of social housing tenants the wrong rents for over twenty years in what a government regulator has judged are “serious failings” that have resulted in dozens of evictions. A judgement by the Regulator of Social Housing found that Mid Devon District Council had incorrectly applied the Rent...
Chris Steers BBC Midlands Today BBC Some residents at Haden Cross have been unable to reach their homes by car since a landslip before Christmas When Reece Aleksander moved into a new-build housing estate in the West Midlands five years ago he thought he had bought his dream home. However, he said it had become...