The Ministry of Justice has sold the Holloway Prison site in North London to housing association Peabody, the Islington Gazette reports.
1,000 new homes are planned for the site, and 60 per cent will be genuinely affordable, meaning they will be available at social rent, for shared ownership, or the Mayor of London's living rent. Over 400 of the homes will be for social rent. A women's centre and public green space will also be...
The private developer that owns the Territorial Army site next to Holloway prison is now stating they can offer only 30 per cent of their development for affordable housing, reports the Islington Tribune.
This is despite the 50 per cent minimum set by Islington Council.
Islington Council and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government won a landmark case last year against the developer which was trying to override the council’s affordable housing requirements in residential...
The Institute of Chartered Surveyors will soon be addressing affordable housing requirements in their national guidance, reports the Islington Gazette.
This comes after a recent landmark High Court judgement ruling that developers can’t overpay for land and subsequently refuse to abide by local authority planning policies on affordable housing on the grounds of profit loss.
The announcement comes in response to an open letter by Diarmaid...
It was great to take part in the seminar at the CCJS on 27 September about the connections between housing policy, austerity and criminalisation and how gentrification and regeneration have led to...
Police and local authority approaches to managing and assisting rough sleepers are shrouded in mystery, our latest briefing has found.
Whilst we need as much genuinely affordable housing as possible on the former Holloway Prison site, the Ministry of Justice can help ease the housing crisis immediately by releasing the empty...
The government announced the closure of Holloway women’s prison in 2015. The 10-...
One of the most well-known policies that the newly elected Conservative Government of 1979 embarked upon was the selling of the council homes to their tenants.
The UN rapporteur on adequate housing, Raqel Rolnik has warned that the effects of the bedroom tax and benefit cuts are threatening the human rights of the poorest, reports The Guardian...
It’s arguable that we know all we need to know about the housing needs of women leaving prison. Ever since the 2007 Corston...
