Category Archives: Housing News

Lighting the way – smart solutions for social housing

Head of business development and specification explains how one of the UK’s largest operators of affordable housing, Peabody, gave tenants improved and safer lighting across its estate, whilst delivering significant financial savings, reductions in carbon emissions and central multi-site control through an integrated LED lighting solution, combined with advanced wireless lighting controls. The substantial cost […]

Market digest April 2020: markets move to a ‘new normal’ as HAs brave issuance

Two major housing associations helped to reopen the sterling corporate bond market after an effective shutdown amid the COVID-19 crisis. Financial markets were showing some initial signs of relative stability at the start of April, following weeks of severe turbulence triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Coronavirus continues to have devastating consequences on a global scale, […]

Revealed: the brands linked to the most appliance fires

Faulty household appliances, such as washing machines, tumble dryers and fridge-freezers, are causing more than 60 fires every week, a new Which? investigation has found. Our analysis, looking at fire data obtained through Freedom of Information requests, reveals that the number of fires has stayed at a similar level for five years, with malfunctioning kitchen […]

LED lighting slashes electricity costs for housing association

Energy-cost saving of around 90% for lighting in communal areas of developments of Wales & West Housing Association are being achieved following the installed of controlled LED lighting to replace older systems. Lighting loads in communal areas of residential apartments of Wales & West Housing Association have been reduced by 80% following the replacement of […]

Housing associations urged to help tackle ‘endemic’ appliance poverty

Housing associations are being urged to play their part in a push to end the “endemic” problem of people living without white goods and furniture. A new 35-page report from charity Turn2us has revealed that more than two million households of all tenures, around 4.8 million people, are living without appliances, such as fridges, freezers, cookers and […]