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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,town centre,Greater Manchester,housing association,social housing,affordable housing,Healthy Homes,Fair and Friendly Service,MSV Housing,msvhousing.co.uk,housing repairs,service van,fleet vehicle,Stockport,England,United Kingdom,DLO,repairs,SocialHousing,UK social housing,housing management,housing maintenance,property services,tenant wellbeing,fuel poverty context,winter readiness,healthy housing,housing standards,decarbonisation support,retrofit visits,community investment,public service delivery,frontline housing work,editorial documentary,urban Britain,Greater Manchester housing,UKhousing,charity housing social landlord UK housing sector
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3DM9858 - A documentary street-level photograph of a branded MSV (Mosscare St Vincent's Housing) service van parked in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The vehicle's yellow and white livery is clearly readable and promotes the organisation and its housing support offer, including the phrases Healthy Homes and Fair & Friendly Service. The branding also shows the MSV name and logo, the website msvhousing.co.uk, and a contact telephone number 0161 226 4211, making the image highly searchable for editorial and sector use. Simple illustrated figures on the panel suggest community-focused housing work and practical property support.
The composition is straightforward and functional, focusing on the side profile of the van with the signage fully visible, which is often exactly what editors need for a neutral illustration of a housing association, landlord services, or housing maintenance activity. The setting reads as a typical urban backstreet or service-road environment with industrial or commercial buildings in the background, reinforcing themes of frontline operational delivery rather than corporate office life.
This image can support stories about UK social housing providers, tenant and resident services, repairs and maintenance operations, healthy homes initiatives, damp and mould response, and wider housing quality and wellbeing agendas. It also suits business and public-sector coverage of service fleets, neighbourhood operations, and the day-to-day logistics of housing management in Greater Manchester.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2X2CFYR - Historic England Research Records
Haley Court
Hob Uid: 1505641
Location :
Calderdale
Non Civil Parish
Grid Ref : SE0925925938
Summary : Three fifteen-storey H-plan tower blocks built as public housing, known respectively as Haley Court, Range Court and Akroyd Court. Each block contains 85 dwellings. Haley Court and Akroyd Court are known to consist of 28 one-bedroom flats and 57 two-bedroom flats. Construction is of in-situ reinforced concrete frame. Akroyd Court is known to have used brick infill panels also. The architect was Vincent Gorbing. Construction was approved by committee in 1964.
More information : The blocks were constructed for Halifax County Borough Council. The Primary and Alternate addresses are the individual addresses of each block
all are current and of equal status. The Alternate Name is the name that was given to the contract for the development. (1)
It is not known whether the same construction techniques were used for all three blocks.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T267HE - Our vision is to improve residents' lives and landlords' services through housing complaints.
All local authorities and registered social housing providers are required to be members of the Housing Ombudsman Scheme. We also have several private landlords and letting agents who have joined voluntarily.
The Housing Ombudsman Scheme sets out our role, what complaints we can consider and the obligations of our members.
We are an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. The Framework Document sets out the respective responsibilities and accountability of the Housing Ombudsman, the Secretary of State and officials within the Department.
What we do
We investigate complaints and resolve disputes involving the tenants and leaseholders of social landlords (housing associations and local authorities), as well as for our voluntary members (private landlords and letting agents).
Investigating these complaints is a free, independent, and impartial service and this work is funded by annual landlord subscription fees.
We work with the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) and the Regulator of Social Housing, under a memorandum of understanding, to agree a common approach to collaborative working. We have included the LGSCO and the regulator's Memorandum of Understanding documents if you'd like to know more.
Who we are
We are made up of three directorates:
Quality, Engagement and Development
Dispute Support & Resolution
Finance and Corporate Services
These teams are supported by our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Operational Leadership Team.
We collaborate with an Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC), an Advisory Board and an Independent Reviewer of Service Complaints to support our activities, encourage external perspectives and continually improve our performance.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T267JD - Our vision is to improve residents' lives and landlords' services through housing complaints.
All local authorities and registered social housing providers are required to be members of the Housing Ombudsman Scheme. We also have several private landlords and letting agents who have joined voluntarily.
The Housing Ombudsman Scheme sets out our role, what complaints we can consider and the obligations of our members.
We are an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. The Framework Document sets out the respective responsibilities and accountability of the Housing Ombudsman, the Secretary of State and officials within the Department.
What we do
We investigate complaints and resolve disputes involving the tenants and leaseholders of social landlords (housing associations and local authorities), as well as for our voluntary members (private landlords and letting agents).
Investigating these complaints is a free, independent, and impartial service and this work is funded by annual landlord subscription fees.
We work with the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) and the Regulator of Social Housing, under a memorandum of understanding, to agree a common approach to collaborative working. We have included the LGSCO and the regulator's Memorandum of Understanding documents if you'd like to know more.
Who we are
We are made up of three directorates:
Quality, Engagement and Development
Dispute Support & Resolution
Finance and Corporate Services
These teams are supported by our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Operational Leadership Team.
We collaborate with an Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC), an Advisory Board and an Independent Reviewer of Service Complaints to support our activities, encourage external perspectives and continually improve our performance.
Description
Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,London,England,UK,SW1,the,housing,flat,flats,block,repair,repairs,UKhousing,sign,signs,city,of,rules,regulations,no,ball games,cycling,roller skating,banned,hawkers,canvassers,Peabody,by order,street,musicians,buskers,inner,urban,notice,notices,community benefit society,urban regeneration agency,association
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T35BY1 - The Peabody Trust was founded in 1862 as the Peabody Donation Fund and now brands itself simply as Peabody. It is one of London's oldest and largest housing associations with over 100,000 homes across London and the home counties. It is also a community benefit society and urban regeneration agency, with a focus on placemaking, stewardship and a provider of an extensive range of community programmes.
The Trust was founded in 1862 by London-based American banker George Peabody, who in the 1850s had developed a great affection for London, and determined to make a charitable gift to benefit it. His initial ideas included a system of drinking fountains
The Peabody Trust was later constituted by Act of Parliament, stipulating its objectives to work solely within London for the relief of poverty. This was to be expressed through the provision of model dwellings for the capital's poor.
The first block of Peabody dwellings in Commercial Street, Spitalfields. A wood-engraving published in the Illustrated London News in 1863, shortly before the building opened.
The first block, designed by H. A. Darbishire in a red-brick Jacobethan style, opened in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, on 29 February 1864. It cost ?22,000 to build, and contained 57 dwellings (i.e. flats) for the poor, nine shops with accommodation for the shopkeepers, and baths and laundry facilities on the upper floor. Water-closets were grouped in pairs by the staircases, with one shared between every two flats. This first block was followed by larger estates in Islington, Poplar, Shadwell, Chelsea, Westminster, Bermondsey, and elsewhere. By 1882 the Trust housed more than 14,600 people in 3,500 dwellings. By 1939 it owned more than 8,000 dwellings.
In its early days, the Trust imposed strict rules to ensure that its tenants were of good moral character. Rents were to be paid weekly and punctually
there was a night-time curfew and a set of moral standards to be adhered to
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RJ3YH6 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RH8AH1 - Broadacres is a successful, innovative, not for profit housing association based in the market town of Northallerton in North Yorkshire.
Currently we own and manage more than 6,000 homes and have stock in Hambleton, Darlington, Richmondshire, Harrogate, Redcar and Cleveland, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby, the East Riding of Yorkshire, York and Leeds.
We provide a range of services to our customers, all aimed at meeting our vision
?to be the best rural housing association in the country'. Whether it is carrying our repairs to ensure your home is kept to the highest standards or providing you with ways of saving money, we strive to ensure you receive a first-class service and that, ultimately, you are proud to say you live in a Broadacres' home.
Broadacres is committed to ensuring its activities are well governed and transparent. Customers are involved in our governance arrangements, ensuring we put our customers at the heart of decision making.
We have adopted the National Housing Federation (NHF) Code of Governance 2020 from 31 March 2021, are early adopters of the NHF Together with Tenants initiative, we continue to retain our G1/V1 rating (the highest rating possible) from the Regulator of Social Housing following our last review in 2023.
Broadacres has two subsidiary companies, Mulberry Homes Yorkshire Limited (MHYL) and Broadacres Services Limited (BSL) which undertake construction activities on behalf of Broadacres to build affordable homes.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RAJ371 - Europe's largest housing festival and annual conference
Housing 2023 is the must-attend event for local authorities, housing associations, key partners and suppliers, government, housebuilders, and developers, and it brings the sector together to drive forward collectively.
Housing has something for everyone!
Housing, Europe's largest housing festival, will take place on 27 - 29 June 2023 at Manchester Central.
Governance, risk, tenant voice, changing and re-setting business plans, the importance of social care, health and housing integration, professionalism, reputation, the cost of living crisis and quality are just a few of the topics you can expect to see discussed at this year's event.
Join us to share, discuss, debate, learn and improve the lives of the people we house at a time when the industry most needs leadership, support, and collaboration.
Why attend?
Bring your teams and learn, keep abreast of industry trends, and enjoy and engage with quality content and speakers ? plus, not forgetting Housing provides the best opportunities to network and meet your peers.
With a delegate pass, you'll get:
150+ hours of CPD accredited content ? covering the cost of living crisis, building safety, homelessness, housing delivery, affordability, funding, climate change and much more!
Keynote speakers as well as new and diverse voices
Senior government figures and workshops
Unrivalled networking functions from health and wellbeing, charity events and drinks receptions
Collaborative workshops on core themes with peers and sector leaders
Network with your peers in our exclusive delegate only lounge
Priority booking on our study tours
Housing delegate reception Wednesday evening supported by Inside Housing.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RAJ377 - Europe's largest housing festival and annual conference
Housing 2023 is the must-attend event for local authorities, housing associations, key partners and suppliers, government, housebuilders, and developers, and it brings the sector together to drive forward collectively.
Housing has something for everyone!
Housing, Europe's largest housing festival, will take place on 27 - 29 June 2023 at Manchester Central.
Governance, risk, tenant voice, changing and re-setting business plans, the importance of social care, health and housing integration, professionalism, reputation, the cost of living crisis and quality are just a few of the topics you can expect to see discussed at this year's event.
Join us to share, discuss, debate, learn and improve the lives of the people we house at a time when the industry most needs leadership, support, and collaboration.
Why attend?
Bring your teams and learn, keep abreast of industry trends, and enjoy and engage with quality content and speakers ? plus, not forgetting Housing provides the best opportunities to network and meet your peers.
With a delegate pass, you'll get:
150+ hours of CPD accredited content ? covering the cost of living crisis, building safety, homelessness, housing delivery, affordability, funding, climate change and much more!
Keynote speakers as well as new and diverse voices
Senior government figures and workshops
Unrivalled networking functions from health and wellbeing, charity events and drinks receptions
Collaborative workshops on core themes with peers and sector leaders
Network with your peers in our exclusive delegate only lounge
Priority booking on our study tours
Housing delegate reception Wednesday evening supported by Inside Housing.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,the,Windmill Street,M2 3GX,M2,exhibitions,conferences,event,events,UKHousing,housing,June,exhibition,and,&,conference,centre,insight,stage,insights,small,group,powerpoint,slides,lecture,session,Gerda,Ark,cavendish,suppliers,supplier,exhibiter,exhibiters,seated,listening,listeners,council housing,local authorities
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RAJ37A - Europe's largest housing festival and annual conference
Housing 2023 is the must-attend event for local authorities, housing associations, key partners and suppliers, government, housebuilders, and developers, and it brings the sector together to drive forward collectively.
Housing has something for everyone!
Housing, Europe's largest housing festival, will take place on 27 - 29 June 2023 at Manchester Central.
Governance, risk, tenant voice, changing and re-setting business plans, the importance of social care, health and housing integration, professionalism, reputation, the cost of living crisis and quality are just a few of the topics you can expect to see discussed at this year's event.
Join us to share, discuss, debate, learn and improve the lives of the people we house at a time when the industry most needs leadership, support, and collaboration.
Why attend?
Bring your teams and learn, keep abreast of industry trends, and enjoy and engage with quality content and speakers ? plus, not forgetting Housing provides the best opportunities to network and meet your peers.
With a delegate pass, you'll get:
150+ hours of CPD accredited content ? covering the cost of living crisis, building safety, homelessness, housing delivery, affordability, funding, climate change and much more!
Keynote speakers as well as new and diverse voices
Senior government figures and workshops
Unrivalled networking functions from health and wellbeing, charity events and drinks receptions
Collaborative workshops on core themes with peers and sector leaders
Network with your peers in our exclusive delegate only lounge
Priority booking on our study tours
Housing delegate reception Wednesday evening supported by Inside Housing.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RAJ37C - Europe's largest housing festival and annual conference
Housing 2023 is the must-attend event for local authorities, housing associations, key partners and suppliers, government, housebuilders, and developers, and it brings the sector together to drive forward collectively.
Housing has something for everyone!
Housing, Europe's largest housing festival, will take place on 27 - 29 June 2023 at Manchester Central.
Governance, risk, tenant voice, changing and re-setting business plans, the importance of social care, health and housing integration, professionalism, reputation, the cost of living crisis and quality are just a few of the topics you can expect to see discussed at this year's event.
Join us to share, discuss, debate, learn and improve the lives of the people we house at a time when the industry most needs leadership, support, and collaboration.
Why attend?
Bring your teams and learn, keep abreast of industry trends, and enjoy and engage with quality content and speakers ? plus, not forgetting Housing provides the best opportunities to network and meet your peers.
With a delegate pass, you'll get:
150+ hours of CPD accredited content ? covering the cost of living crisis, building safety, homelessness, housing delivery, affordability, funding, climate change and much more!
Keynote speakers as well as new and diverse voices
Senior government figures and workshops
Unrivalled networking functions from health and wellbeing, charity events and drinks receptions
Collaborative workshops on core themes with peers and sector leaders
Network with your peers in our exclusive delegate only lounge
Priority booking on our study tours
Housing delegate reception Wednesday evening supported by Inside Housing.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,Northern Ireland,NI,Limavady,Ireland,oppressive,child,children,boredom,football,outdoor,activities,activity,estate,estates,CCTV,sign,signs,housing estate,signage,rules,public housing,surveillance sign,local authority,rule,housing,UKhousing,play,playing,urban,environment,estate management,community safety,housing rules,public space regulation,children playing restrictions,neighbourhood control
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RBN9F0 - This image shows two classic official signs mounted on a high brick wall within a UK council housing estate: a yellow warning sign indicating CCTV in operation and a white sign stating No ball games. Together, the signs reflect common approaches used by local authorities and housing providers to manage behaviour, safety, and perceived antisocial activity in shared residential spaces.
CCTV signage has become a familiar feature across social housing estates, parks, and communal areas, intended both as a deterrent and as part of wider community safety and evidence-gathering measures. The accompanying No ball games sign illustrates long-standing estate rules aimed at preventing damage, noise nuisance, and conflict in areas close to homes, particularly where space is limited.
The pairing of surveillance warnings with behavioural restrictions highlights the tension often present in estate design and management between creating safe environments and limiting informal play or social activity. Such signage is frequently cited in debates around children's rights to play, urban design, and the lived experience of residents in public housing.
Photographed in daylight with clear legible text, the image works well as editorial material illustrating UK social housing policy in practice, local authority enforcement, community regulation, and the visual language of control and safety within urban residential environments.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RD739A - The Northern Ireland Housing Executive is the public housing authority for Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's largest social housing landlord, and the enforcing authority for those parts of housing orders that involve houses with multiple occupants, houses that are unfit, and housing conditions. The NIHE employed 2,865 persons as of 31 March 2020
Prior to the establishment of the Housing Executive, public housing in Northern Ireland was managed primarily by local councils. Only ratepayers and their spouses could vote in council elections - sub-tenants, lodgers, and adults living with their parents could not - so allocation of housing was distorted for political ends. This largely took the form of discrimination against Catholics to ensure Unionist control of councils, opposition to which was a major plank of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement of the late 1960s. Following civil disturbances in 1968?69, a commission appointed by the Northern Ireland government and led by Lord Cameron found that grievances concerning housing were the first general cause of the disorders which it investigated. Lord Cameron's report concluded:
A rising sense of continuing injustice and grievance among large sections of the Catholic population in Northern Ireland, in particular in Derry and Dungannon, in respect of (i) inadequacy of housing provision by certain local authorities (ii) unfair methods of allocation of houses built and let by such authorities, in particular
refusals and omissions to adopt a 'points' system in determining priorities and making allocations (iii) misuse in certain cases of discretionary powers of allocation of houses in order to perpetuate Unionist control of the local authority
The Housing Executive was established by the Housing Executive Act (Northern Ireland) 1971. A single all-purpose housing authority for Northern Ireland had been advocated as early as 1964 by the Northern Ireland Labour Party
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R55JGY - This image shows a Homes England land notice photographed in Grappenhall, near Warrington in Cheshire. The sign clearly states Private Land. No public access or right of way and includes official contact details, identifying the land as being under the management of the UK government's housing and regeneration agency.
The sign is mounted at the edge of a vegetated area, with dense foliage behind it and the sun low in the sky, casting warm golden light across the scene. The sunset backdrop softens the otherwise formal and restrictive message, creating a visual contrast between natural landscape and regulatory control of land access.
Homes England is responsible for managing public land assets and supporting housing delivery and regeneration across England. Signs like this are commonly used to establish ownership boundaries, restrict unauthorised access, and manage liability on land that may be earmarked for future development or strategic use.
Photographed in evening light during golden hour, the image combines themes of land ownership, access rights, public versus private space, and the role of government agencies in land management. It is well suited to editorial use covering housing policy, planning and development, rural and suburban land use, property law, public access debates, and UK governance.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R3WMNT - This image shows Central Parade flats and its prominent clock tower on Church Hill in Walthamstow, East London, an instantly recognisable local landmark within the Walthamstow Village area of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The building dates from the interwar period and reflects the practical yet decorative municipal architecture of the 1930s, combining red brick construction with patterned concrete panels and a tall vertical tower housing a large public clock.
The development was designed as mixed-use housing, with commercial premises at ground level and residential flats above, a common urban model intended to support walkable neighbourhoods and local trade. The clock tower acts as both a civic feature and a wayfinding landmark, visually anchoring Church Hill and the surrounding streets.
The photograph was taken in daylight under a bright, partly cloudy summer sky, which highlights the contrasting textures of brick, concrete, and glazing across the facade. Pedestrians, traffic signals, and nearby residential buildings place the structure firmly within everyday London life, emphasising its continued role as functional housing rather than a preserved monument.
Images such as this are well suited to editorial use covering themes of London housing, social and municipal architecture, urban regeneration, local identity, mixed-use development, and the character of historic residential areas in East London.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R3WMP3 - This image shows Central Parade flats and its prominent clock tower on Church Hill in Walthamstow, East London, an instantly recognisable local landmark within the Walthamstow Village area of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The building dates from the interwar period and reflects the practical yet decorative municipal architecture of the 1930s, combining red brick construction with patterned concrete panels and a tall vertical tower housing a large public clock.
The development was designed as mixed-use housing, with commercial premises at ground level and residential flats above, a common urban model intended to support walkable neighbourhoods and local trade. The clock tower acts as both a civic feature and a wayfinding landmark, visually anchoring Church Hill and the surrounding streets.
The photograph was taken in daylight under a bright, partly cloudy summer sky, which highlights the contrasting textures of brick, concrete, and glazing across the facade. Pedestrians, traffic signals, and nearby residential buildings place the structure firmly within everyday London life, emphasising its continued role as functional housing rather than a preserved monument.
Images such as this are well suited to editorial use covering themes of London housing, social and municipal architecture, urban regeneration, local identity, mixed-use development, and the character of historic residential areas in East London.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R7A3N1 - Islington London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Islington in Greater London, England. The council was created by the London Government Act 1963 and replaced two local authorities: Finsbury Metropolitan Borough Council and Islington Metropolitan Borough Council.
It is a London borough council, one of 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. Islington is divided into 17 wards, each electing three councillors.[1] Following the May 2022 election, Islington Council comprises 48 Labour Party councillors and 3 Green Party councillors.[2] Of these 51 councillors, the Leader of the Council is Councillor Kaya Comer-Schwartz, while the Mayor is Councillor Marian Spall
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PR5999 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PM343A -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MKF7T9 - Scholes is an urban area in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Scholes is immediately to the east of Wigan's town centre
separated from the commercial area by the River Douglas.
Historically a part of Lancashire, Scholes is noted for its council estate and series of tower blocks, which are prominent features in this area of the town.
North West England has several places called Scholes. Some, like Scholes in Wigan, are simply areas within towns, however, some are actual villages in their own right which are totally stand-alone.[1]
Scholes was once a ward of Wigan, east of the town centre. As described in the Victoria Histories of the Counties of England, Lancashire (VCH Lancs, Vol. 4), the district formerly had four wards: St George and St Patrick, the innermost divided by a street called Scholes, and Lindsay and St Catherine's outside. It is now contained in the Wigan Central ward.
The Church of St Catherine was consecrated in 1841 and has a small graveyard attached. In October 1864 representatives of James Horrocks of Spennymoor, claiming to be the heir of Robert Ford who died in 1772, took possession of the ?Manor House' in Scholes and were besieged for some days, to the excitement of the town
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K6C9C4 - Community land trusts ? or CLTs ? are democratic, non profit organisations that own and develop land for the benefit of the community.
They typically provide affordable homes, community gardens, civic buildings, pubs, shops, shared workspace, energy schemes and conservation landscapes.
Run by ordinary people. They are community organisations run by ordinary people who want to make a difference to their local community, putting control of assets into the hands of local people. They can be set up by the community or a landowner, developer or council.
Protecting community assets forever. They ensure that their homes are permanently and genuinely affordable. CLTs act as long-term stewards of land and the assets on it. They ensure that it is put to the benefit of the local community, not just for now but for every future occupier.
A world wide movement. Started in the USA, CLTs are now a worldwide movement. In both urban and rural areas, CLTs are a key part of the future of land, affordable housing and community facilities.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K6C9CN - Community land trusts ? or CLTs ? are democratic, non profit organisations that own and develop land for the benefit of the community.
They typically provide affordable homes, community gardens, civic buildings, pubs, shops, shared workspace, energy schemes and conservation landscapes.
Run by ordinary people. They are community organisations run by ordinary people who want to make a difference to their local community, putting control of assets into the hands of local people. They can be set up by the community or a landowner, developer or council.
Protecting community assets forever. They ensure that their homes are permanently and genuinely affordable. CLTs act as long-term stewards of land and the assets on it. They ensure that it is put to the benefit of the local community, not just for now but for every future occupier.
A world wide movement. Started in the USA, CLTs are now a worldwide movement. In both urban and rural areas, CLTs are a key part of the future of land, affordable housing and community facilities.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K1P03Y - Gamesley is a residential area within the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire, England, west of Glossop and close to the River Etherow which forms the boundary with Tameside in Greater Manchester. Gamesley is a ward of the High Peak Borough Council. It had a population of 2,531 at the 2011 Census
The original village of Gamesley consisted of rows of cottages inhabited by workers at the local textile mills, and it remained largely undeveloped until the 1960s, when it underwent considerable change. It was chosen as the location of an overspill estate, built by Manchester City Council. This was in order to rehouse people from decaying inner city areas of Manchester. These housing areas were also built in other towns surrounding Manchester, such as nearby Hattersley on the outskirts of Hyde.
The Gamesley estate was built in 2 half's. The first houses were built by contractors Finnegans which were constructed with
flat felted roofs, pebble dash cladding ground floors and tile cladded first floors. Finnegans houses were equipped with warm air central heating which used gas as an energy source. The Finnegan side of the estate was known locally as the ?gas side'. In the late 1980s the local authority renovated the Finnegan system built houses, the works included re-enveloping the external building with traditional bricks and mortar. The works also added apex roofing complete with roofing tiles.
The second half of the Gamesley estate was built a couple of years later by George Wimpey using the Wimpey no-fines house building method. The houses were constructed with full pebble dash finish and tiled apex roofing. The houses built by George Wimpey had a solid concrete ground floor which had electrical underfloor heating installed, the first floors of these houses were built with no heating. Due to electricity being the main energy source for heating, the George Wimpey side of Gamesley became known locally as the ?electric side'.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2C59GG9 - A plan to build thousands of homes on green belt land in Warrington has been approved by councillors at a meeting.
Warrington Borough Council's Local Plan will see 18,900 homes built by 2037, including 7,064 on green belt land.
The Labour-run council's leader Russ Bowden said building in rural areas was an absolute last resort.
Campaigner Helen Gurnani, who protested outside the meeting, said there was a need to preserve the land for public health and environmental reasons.
The authority was forced to draw up a new plan in 2017 after its last one was overturned by a legal challenge, and the new proposals saw the target for green belt land cut back.
The proposals were approved by the council, despite opposition from Liberal Democrats and Conservatives.
Six Labour councillors, who represent areas near Peel Hall - where 1,200 homes are proposed despite a government inspector's ruling last year that the site was unsuitable for housing - abstained from voting.
The wider plan will also see a number of large builds on both green belt and brownfield land, including 5,000 homes in a new garden suburb near the M6 Lymm interchange at Appleton, 1,600 on land near the River Mersey and 1,100 around Lymm, Culcheth, Burtonwood and other villages.
Liberal Democrat Ryan Bate said the plan would make lives poorer and destroy our environment, while Ms Gurnani said she understood the need for social housing on brownfield land, but we need to preserve our green spaces for environmental and public health reasons.
The council said a consultation would now be held on the plan before it is reviewed by a government inspector.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFW8F - X Almada Street is a 14 storey tower block in Hamilton, Scotland. It was approved in 1967 and construction was carried out by Lawrence. The building contains 78 flats.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE398 - Torus (officially Torus62 Ltd, a Community Benefit Society no 7973) is a housing association in North West England.
Torus is the parent organisation of Liverpool Mutual Homes, Helena Partnerships (in St Helens) and Golden Gates Housing Trust (in Warrington).
Helena Housing Ltd formed in 2001 to manage housing owned by St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council
Liverpool Mutual Homes is a tenant-led housing association in Merseyside The housing association manages more than 15,000 homes across the county, all of which were either previously owned by Liverpool City Council or are new developments. The main offices of the organisation are based on Old Haymarket, Liverpool.
Golden Gates was owned by Warrington Borough Council. It became a Trust in 2010 and joined Torus in 2015
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT2Y7 - Campaigners have called for renewed action to tackle Britain's housing crisis after official figures indicated a surge in rough sleeping in England's cities, coupled with record number of families living in overcrowded homes.
Charities said welfare cuts, soaring rents and shortages of affordable homes were behind steep rises in street sleeping in London, Birmingham, and Manchester. There were 1,283 rough sleepers in the capital alone, a 13% increase, according to official figures
The data for England as a whole, based on estimates after a single night snapshot in the autumn, disclosed that 4,677 people bedded down on the streets or in sheds and tents in 2018. This is 165% higher than in 2010, and charities said the latest figures were likely to be an underestimate.
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By illustration, separate rough sleeping figures for London alone released on Thursday by the CHAIN database and regarded as a more robust index of the scale of the problem, identified 3,289 rough sleepers in the capital between October and December, up 25% year on year.
It's a damning reflection of our society that night after night, so many people are forced to sleep rough on our streets ? with numbers soaring in the capital ? especially when we know that with the right commitment, rough sleeping could be ended for good, said the chief executive of the Crisis charity, Jon Sparkes.
The 10 local authority areas with most rough sleepers were: Westminster, where a 41% annual rise took numbers to 306
Camden (141)
Manchester (123)
Birmingham (91)
Bristol (82)
Newham (79)
Enfield (78)
Hillingdon (70)
City of London (67), and Brighton and Hove (64).
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Meanwhile the English Housing Survey revealed that at least a million people in rented homes are now enduring overcrowding. Some 300,000 households in social housing were overcrowded ? the highest since records began 25 years ago
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K43R0N - Provider of tenancy services. The company operate as a charitable organization and offers student accommodation and social housing services to the residents of United Kingdom.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG992J - The UK homeless charity Shelter put the 2017 figure for the whole of the UK's homeless at 300,000. Recorded deaths among rough sleepers and those in temporary accommodation more than doubled in the five years to 2018. Homeless people die much younger than the general population, research by the Office for National Statistics shows. Homeless men die on average aged 44 while homeless women die on average aged 42. Homeless deaths have been rising stradily in the five years to 2018. Suicide, drug and alcohol abuse are the most common causes of death among homeless people. Jon Sparkes of Crisis urged the government to put causes of homelessness right, like building the number of social homes we need and making sure our welfare system is there to support people when they fall on hard times. The charity, Crisis attributes rising homelessness to a shortage of social housing, housing benefits not covering private rents and there not being homeless prevention schemes for people leaving care. Crisis wants the government to change polixy.
Crisis estimates there are roughly 12,300 rough sleepers in the UK and also 12,000 people sleeping in sheds, bins, cars, tents and night busses. The figure is derived from research by Heriot-Watt University. Rough sleeping has risen by 98% since 2010, sleeping in tents and the like rose 103%. In England rough sleeping rose by 120%, in Wales it rose by 75% and in Scotland it fell by 5%. Scotland has more inclusive homelessness laws, since 2012 guaranteeing a right to settled accommodation for all homeless people, including young single men, while England only houses those in priority need, like families with dependent children. Jon Sparkes of Crisis said, Christmas should be a time of joy, but for thousands of people sleeping rough, in tents or on public transport it will be anything but. While most of the country will be celebrating and enjoying a family meal, those who are homeless will face a struggle just to stay safe and escape the c
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RG996J - The UK homeless charity Shelter put the 2017 figure for the whole of the UK's homeless at 300,000. Recorded deaths among rough sleepers and those in temporary accommodation more than doubled in the five years to 2018. Homeless people die much younger than the general population, research by the Office for National Statistics shows. Homeless men die on average aged 44 while homeless women die on average aged 42. Homeless deaths have been rising stradily in the five years to 2018. Suicide, drug and alcohol abuse are the most common causes of death among homeless people. Jon Sparkes of Crisis urged the government to put causes of homelessness right, like building the number of social homes we need and making sure our welfare system is there to support people when they fall on hard times. The charity, Crisis attributes rising homelessness to a shortage of social housing, housing benefits not covering private rents and there not being homeless prevention schemes for people leaving care. Crisis wants the government to change polixy.
Crisis estimates there are roughly 12,300 rough sleepers in the UK and also 12,000 people sleeping in sheds, bins, cars, tents and night busses. The figure is derived from research by Heriot-Watt University. Rough sleeping has risen by 98% since 2010, sleeping in tents and the like rose 103%. In England rough sleeping rose by 120%, in Wales it rose by 75% and in Scotland it fell by 5%. Scotland has more inclusive homelessness laws, since 2012 guaranteeing a right to settled accommodation for all homeless people, including young single men, while England only houses those in priority need, like families with dependent children. Jon Sparkes of Crisis said, Christmas should be a time of joy, but for thousands of people sleeping rough, in tents or on public transport it will be anything but. While most of the country will be celebrating and enjoying a family meal, those who are homeless will face a struggle just to stay safe and escape the c
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H04GCF - John Basil Lee Jellicoe (5 February 1899 - 24 August 1935) was a priest in the Church of England best known for his work as a housing reformer.
Jellicoe was born in Chailey, Sussex. A graduate of Magdalen College Oxford, he was ordained as an Anglican priest and became missioner at the Magdalen Mission in Somers Town, London. He was founder of the St Pancras Housing Association (originally the St Pancras House Improvement Society) and several other housing associations in London, Sussex and Cornwall. He toured the country in his small car fundraising and selling loan stock to fund these projects. His father, Thomas Harry Lee Jellicoe, rector of St Peter's Chailey, was a cousin of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe.
Jellicoe died in Uxbridge on 24 August 1935. A blue plaque was unveiled in his honour in Camden in 2014. He is commemorated in the Diocese of London with a memorial day on 24 August
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H04GH6 - John Basil Lee Jellicoe (5 February 1899 - 24 August 1935) was a priest in the Church of England best known for his work as a housing reformer.
Jellicoe was born in Chailey, Sussex. A graduate of Magdalen College Oxford, he was ordained as an Anglican priest and became missioner at the Magdalen Mission in Somers Town, London. He was founder of the St Pancras Housing Association (originally the St Pancras House Improvement Society) and several other housing associations in London, Sussex and Cornwall. He toured the country in his small car fundraising and selling loan stock to fund these projects. His father, Thomas Harry Lee Jellicoe, rector of St Peter's Chailey, was a cousin of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe.
Jellicoe died in Uxbridge on 24 August 1935. A blue plaque was unveiled in his honour in Camden in 2014. He is commemorated in the Diocese of London with a memorial day on 24 August
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DE01 - Designed to provide the best of the land on the water the yacht-houses are modelled on modern streamline motor yachts yet appointed to allow high ceilings, excellent natural light, picture windows on the upper floor and wrap around windows on the lower floor.
From their secure residential moorings, they afford excellent views up and down the river with minimal windows on the side to allow almost complete privacy. Lighting is enhanced by shards of roof window that allow daylight along the sides. This, the middle of the three vessels, is also air conditioned and designed to compliment their unique setting. The superb Kingston town centre is a short walk away and Hampton Wick (over ground) is the closest station.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DE04 - Designed to provide the best of the land on the water the yacht-houses are modelled on modern streamline motor yachts yet appointed to allow high ceilings, excellent natural light, picture windows on the upper floor and wrap around windows on the lower floor.
From their secure residential moorings, they afford excellent views up and down the river with minimal windows on the side to allow almost complete privacy. Lighting is enhanced by shards of roof window that allow daylight along the sides. This, the middle of the three vessels, is also air conditioned and designed to compliment their unique setting. The superb Kingston town centre is a short walk away and Hampton Wick (over ground) is the closest station.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F7DE0F - Designed to provide the best of the land on the water the yacht-houses are modelled on modern streamline motor yachts yet appointed to allow high ceilings, excellent natural light, picture windows on the upper floor and wrap around windows on the lower floor.
From their secure residential moorings, they afford excellent views up and down the river with minimal windows on the side to allow almost complete privacy. Lighting is enhanced by shards of roof window that allow daylight along the sides. This, the middle of the three vessels, is also air conditioned and designed to compliment their unique setting. The superb Kingston town centre is a short walk away and Hampton Wick (over ground) is the closest station.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T267H7 - Our vision is to improve residents' lives and landlords' services through housing complaints.
All local authorities and registered social housing providers are required to be members of the Housing Ombudsman Scheme. We also have several private landlords and letting agents who have joined voluntarily.
The Housing Ombudsman Scheme sets out our role, what complaints we can consider and the obligations of our members.
We are an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. The Framework Document sets out the respective responsibilities and accountability of the Housing Ombudsman, the Secretary of State and officials within the Department.
What we do
We investigate complaints and resolve disputes involving the tenants and leaseholders of social landlords (housing associations and local authorities), as well as for our voluntary members (private landlords and letting agents).
Investigating these complaints is a free, independent, and impartial service and this work is funded by annual landlord subscription fees.
We work with the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) and the Regulator of Social Housing, under a memorandum of understanding, to agree a common approach to collaborative working. We have included the LGSCO and the regulator's Memorandum of Understanding documents if you'd like to know more.
Who we are
We are made up of three directorates:
Quality, Engagement and Development
Dispute Support & Resolution
Finance and Corporate Services
These teams are supported by our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Operational Leadership Team.
We collaborate with an Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC), an Advisory Board and an Independent Reviewer of Service Complaints to support our activities, encourage external perspectives and continually improve our performance.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2T35BXW - The Peabody Trust was founded in 1862 as the Peabody Donation Fund and now brands itself simply as Peabody. It is one of London's oldest and largest housing associations with over 100,000 homes across London and the home counties. It is also a community benefit society and urban regeneration agency, with a focus on placemaking, stewardship and a provider of an extensive range of community programmes.
The Trust was founded in 1862 by London-based American banker George Peabody, who in the 1850s had developed a great affection for London, and determined to make a charitable gift to benefit it. His initial ideas included a system of drinking fountains
The Peabody Trust was later constituted by Act of Parliament, stipulating its objectives to work solely within London for the relief of poverty. This was to be expressed through the provision of model dwellings for the capital's poor.
The first block of Peabody dwellings in Commercial Street, Spitalfields. A wood-engraving published in the Illustrated London News in 1863, shortly before the building opened.
The first block, designed by H. A. Darbishire in a red-brick Jacobethan style, opened in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, on 29 February 1864. It cost ?22,000 to build, and contained 57 dwellings (i.e. flats) for the poor, nine shops with accommodation for the shopkeepers, and baths and laundry facilities on the upper floor. Water-closets were grouped in pairs by the staircases, with one shared between every two flats. This first block was followed by larger estates in Islington, Poplar, Shadwell, Chelsea, Westminster, Bermondsey, and elsewhere. By 1882 the Trust housed more than 14,600 people in 3,500 dwellings. By 1939 it owned more than 8,000 dwellings.
In its early days, the Trust imposed strict rules to ensure that its tenants were of good moral character. Rents were to be paid weekly and punctually
there was a night-time curfew and a set of moral standards to be adhered to
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2KA4R7D - The office of the Housing Ombudsman is an executive non-departmental public body of the government of the United Kingdom, sponsored by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
The Housing Ombudsman Service looks at complaints about registered providers of social housing, for example housing associations, and other landlords, managers and agents. The service is free, independent and impartial. The Ombudsman can also look at complaints about the handling of housing issues by local councils.
In June 2018, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment called on the UK government to expand the remit of independent UK ombudsman schemes to cover private house-builders. It recommended a single entry point for ombudsman services spanning the entire residential sector, which would cover the conduct of estate agents (covered by The Property Ombudsman) through to social housing. Within this overarching service, there would be either a number of specialist ombudsmen or specialist divisions ? one of which would cover new homes
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