Housing Minister Kelly Tolhurst resigns after ‘devastating’ family news

Housing Minister Kelly Tolhurst resigns after ‘devastating’ family news as Boris Johnson says he is ‘very sad’ to lose the ‘brilliant minister’ Housing Minister Kelly Tolhurst announced she was stepping down from her role  Posted letter on Twitter last night addressed to PM explaining her resignation The MP said she was standing down after receiving … Read more

How to object if a new housing development is being built near you

If you have heard that an unsuitable new housing development is being proposed near where you live then you may want to raise an objection. The plans could involve building on the Green Belt or countryside, or simply see an increasing number of homes in your area, putting pressure on existing traffic congestion and air … Read more

Housing minister who should be sorting out the cladding scandal is too busy reviewing champagne 

Dumb Perignon! Housing minister who should be sorting out the cladding scandal is too busy reviewing champagne Housing Minister Chris Pincher advised voters to drink as ‘alternative vaccine’ In an article for The Critic, he advised glugging £174-a-bottle champagne Pincher recommended trying the 166th edition of the Grand Cru Cuvée Chris Pincher’s department is responsible … Read more

Britain’s £10 TRILLION price tag includes £1.9trn of housing, figures reveal

Britain’s £10 TRILLION price tag: Value of entire UK includes £1.9trn of housing and £138bn of trains and buses, ONS figures reveal Figures show that Britain and everything in it is worth £10,049,743,000,000  The country’s housing stock was calculated to be worth £1.9trillion alone  Huge Covid-related public borrowing is likely to have dragged down the total  … Read more

Extra £62bn of housing sales agreed this year

Extra £62bn of housing sales agreed this year off back of post-lockdown mini-boom By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 20 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 20 December 2020 An extra £62billion of housing sales have been agreed this year off the back of a post-lockdown mini-boom, according to Zoopla.  The … Read more

Studio 10 host Sarah Harris reflects on how far she’s come after growing up in housing commission

Studio 10 host Sarah Harris reflects on how far she’s come after growing up in housing commission and caravan parks – as she stuns on the cover of The Australian Women’s Weekly By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 21:33 GMT, 2 December 2020 | Updated: 21:39 GMT, 2 December 2020 Sarah Harris is … Read more

Billionaire Dubai ruler to pay £30,000 for affordable housing so he can build lodge in Scotland

Billionaire ruler of Dubai is told he can build a six-bed lodge in the Scottish Highlands… if he pays £30,000 towards affordable housing in the area, council says Billionaire ruler of Dubai won fight to build a six-bed lodge on his Scottish estate But Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum will have to pay out £30,000  … Read more

Stand-off in the housing market: House building plummets by a third in 2020

House building plummets by a third with developers blaming local authority planning delays more than the pandemic Britain’s seven largest house builders have reported housing completions are down, on average, by 35 per cent from a year ago Small and medium sized developers have also warned their housing completions will be down this year – … Read more

Mother-of-five, 43, whose home fell off a cliff is still living in temporary housing five months on

The terrified neighbours of a mother whose dream home fell off a cliff fear they will be next and are desperately trying to shore up the collapsing seafront.  Striking drone images reveal houses teetering on the cliff top in Eastchurch, on the Isle of Sheppy, off the Kent coast, six months after mother-of-five Emma Tullett’s … Read more