Housing

6 hrs ago

A woman is inside a building and is wearing a white helmet, blue T-shirt and yellow and silver fluorescent jacket. She is holding a caulk gun which has a yellow body and a long white nozzle.

Village set for 110 homes despite green belt plea

Solihull Council agrees the plans despite a councillor saying they will be build on green belt land.

6 hrs ago

7 hrs ago

An artist's impression how of new homes planned for Bath Street could look. There is a block of brown five storey flats and a four-storey block with balconies in the centre of the image.

'Cost of building' hits affordable homes targets

Costs 'challenging' for new homes plan as just 96 affordable homes built in Plymouth in 2025.

7 hrs ago

10 hrs ago

A large grass field viewed from the edge of a country road, with a trimmed hedgerow running horizontally across the front of the image, separating the roadside verge from the field.

Homes and aerospace expansion plans approved

Councillors back a plan for 67 homes and the expansion of Sylatech Engineering in Kirkbymoorside.

10 hrs ago

The Leale's Yard site behind grey wire fences. It's a collection of derelict buildings and grassy scrubland.

Vale Douzaine pushes for Leale's Yard info

The States of Guernsey hopes to start demolishing the site in September.

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1 day ago

Baguley Crescent resident Francesca Estasy is pictured in front of wasteland opposite her apartment. She has short, styled white hair and wears red and black rimmed glasses. She has a lilac vest top and a low necklace in black and blue. Behind her, security fencing runs between one three-storey apartment block and a piece of flat ground leading to overgrown bushes.

Resident anger at 'squalor' of condemned flats

Baguley Crescent residents plead with Bury Council to purchase flats which were condemned in 2023.

1 day ago

The apartment buildings are built out of brick with various cladded sections. A large brick forecourt has various young people in working clothes talking to each other. Greenery has been planted around the buildings.

Funding secured for supported living project

Fifty-two specialist homes will be built off Boston Road in Sleaford.

1 day ago

2 days ago

A road at a housing estate has uneven pavements.

Households still waiting for roads to be made safe

Residents on the estate have been living with unfinished roads and no street lights.

2 days ago

3 days ago

a picture of andy burnham super imposed over a photo of a red tiled roof, underneath a BBC Verify graphic

Can Andy Burnham solve the housing crisis?

The Labour government has pledged to build 1.5 million new homes in England over the course of this Parliament - but it is already falling behind on this target.

3 days ago

4 days ago

An empty cream-rendered property with boarded windows is covered in graffiti with a bush growing from a windowsill. Next to it is a row of red brick terraced houses on a residential street.

More homes are lying empty – so what can be done?

Councils are cracking down on the issue amid calls for reforms at national level.

4 days ago