Category: Housing
Questions over Extension of Housing Repair Contract
The contractor at the centre of an investigation in to how council tenants were allowed to live in...
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Residents Object to ‘Prison Like’ Housing Development
An unconventional design proposal to redevelop garages in to a block of three storey houses has...
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PLANNERS USE NEW RULES TO TAKE TOUGH STANCE ON HMOS
The council is using new rules to reject applications to carve up family homes in Thornton Heath...
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EMPTY 1960S OFFICE BLOCK TO BE CONVERTED IN TO HOUSING
The millionaire owner of Ambassador House who paid just £300,000 for it nine years ago at auction...
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Brick by Brick Affordable Homes Sold in Deal Worth £29m
Brick by Brick’s empty Thornton Heath flagship affordable homes development Flora Court is among a...
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Developer’s Plan to Build Two Houses in Garden of Historic House
Plans to cash in on building in the back garden of one of Thornton Heath’s oldest houses has been...
Read MoreFive Bed Terraced House Used as HMO
The owner of a terraced house which has been operating as a HMO for more than a year providing rooms to the socially excluded is asking for retrospective permission for the change of use. The property 102 Richmond Road is being...
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BXB Affordable Homes Sat Empty For A Year
The Chronicle understands the council is close to completing a deal with a Housing Association to...
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Review recommends removal of Brick by Brick directors
An independent review of the council’s property investments has been highly critical of its...
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Only one flat sold in flagship affordable housing scheme
Affordable housing built by the council’s controversial housing developer has sat virtually empty...
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Residents object to Brick by Brick affordable homes scheme
The council’s house builder Brick by Brick is facing objection to plans to redevelop garages...
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New planning powers see HMO refused
An application to carve up a family home for use as a House of Multiple Occupancy for six people...
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FEBRUARY 2021 EDITION
