Sep5
A Scottish housing association is to work with the local council to set up a short break facility for people living with disabilities.
Margaret Blackwood Housing Association is to make a two-bedroom flat available for people with disabilities to use as a break away from their normal daily life.
The project - in coordination with Scottish Borders Council’’s social work services sector - has seen a number of housing jobs created in order to staff the open-plan facility, which will have a special separate room for carers.
Jock Welsh, Margaret Blackwood’’s support services director, said: "When social work services suggested the short stay flat, it made perfect sense for us, enabling us to make excellent use of an existing resource."
Meanwhile, Manchester-based Parkway Green and Willow Park housing trusts have teamed up with the local MP to back a campaign which aims to stop energy firms overcharging their poorest customers.
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Sep4
A major housing association is calling on MPs to back a campaign which aims to create more affordable energy for its tenants.
Rochdale-based Arcon Housing Association has asked local MP Paul Rowen to back a scheme which will create a ”fairer deal” for those customers with pre-payment electricity meters.
A total of five million people across the [...]
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Sep3
The housing market rescue packages unveiled by the government yesterday (September 2nd) have been welcomed by many industry experts.
Among a raft of measures, prime minister Gordon Brown announced a year-long free on stamp duty for those buying houses worth under £175,000, while ”free” five-year loans worth up to 30 per cent of a new property’’s [...]
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Sep2
Properties costing less than £175,000 are to be exempt from stamp duty for the next 12 months, the government has announced.
The move is part of a raft of measures to help the slowing property market and aid first-time buyers in getting on to the housing ladder.
From tomorrow (September 3rd), stamp duty on properties under £175,000 [...]
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Sep1
One in every five charities around the UK are expected to benefit after the government sought to cut the amount of red tape involved in daily life.
Plans to raise the minimum income threshold above which charities face more onerous reporting requirements have been suggested, which would reduce the amount of paperwork and regulatory burden on [...]
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