11 July, 2011
11 July, 2011
National Housing Federation, Shelter and the Tenant Participation Advisory Service have written joint letter highlighting concerns over clause in the Localism Bill that will prevent tenants from complaining directly to housing ombudsman.
11 July, 2011
The Department for Communities and Local Government publishes English Housing Survey 2009/2010 Household Report.
11 July, 2011
Issue 225 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
8 July, 2011
Government publishes consultation paper which seeks views on proposed draft directions to the social housing regulator under section 197 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.
8 July, 2011
Inclusion Health will identify what must be done to include the needs of homeless people in commissioning of health services and prevent homeless people being discharged from hospital on to the streets.
7 July, 2011
7 July, 2011
Crisis and Homeless Link issue responses to publication of Local Government Ombudsman report which examines councils duties to homeless people.
7 July, 2011
Housing Minister pledges that government's packages of reforms, including greater flexibility for councils to manage their own waiting lists, will reduce social housing waiting lists.
7 July, 2011
May and June updates, as published in the Legal Action Magazine, now available from the Garden Court Chambers website.
6 July, 2011
[2011] EWHC 1756 (Admin)
6 July, 2011
Housing Minister announces new £20m Homelessness Transition Fund for the voluntary sector to help people off the streets.
6 July, 2011
Local Government Ombudsman warns councils that they face criticism for maladministration if they fail to meet responsibilities to homeless people.
5 July, 2011
New report published by Department for Communitites and Local Government provides findings from a housing module of the British Social Attitudes survey.
4 July, 2011
Issue 224 of Garden Court Chambers' Housing Law Bulletin is now available.
4 July, 2011
Survey published by Shelter shows that 16 per cent of people have had issues with their landlord in the last ten years.
30 June, 2011
[2011] EWHC 1663 (Ch)
30 June, 2011
Government publishes bi-annual count of gypsy and traveller caravans that records number of caravans on both authorised and unauthorised sites across England.
29 June, 2011
New statutory rule brings sections 3 to 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 17 to 24 of the Housing (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 into operation on 30 June 2011 and brings sections 12, 13 and 16 of the Act into operation on 1 September 2011.
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